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What Is the Board of Peace? The Trump-Backed Group, Explained.

Par :Chris Cameron
President Trump created the international organization, aimed at resolving the long-running war in Gaza and other conflicts.

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President Trump at a signing ceremony for the founding charter of the Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service

Par :Elizabeth Williamson
The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.

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The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.
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Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power

Par :Michael Gold
In standing in the way of Todd Blanche, President Trump’s choice for attorney general, a liberated Senator John Cornyn is wielding his leverage.

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Senator John Cornyn in Washington, on Thursday.
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Trump Says Peace Board Has Plan for Gaza Disarmament

Par :Katie Rogers and Pranav Baskar
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Israel, though the Board of Peace said Hamas had agreed to a “road map” to give up its weapons.

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President Trump at the Board of Peace charter announcement at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
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Alabama Plans Inmate’s Execution After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt

Par :Rick Rojas
The state will try again to execute Jeffery Lee — this time, by lethal injection — after courts said doing so using nitrogen gas was “likely unconstitutional.”

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Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., around 2002.
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Alabama Plans Inmate’s Execution After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt

Par :Rick Rojas
The state will try again to execute Jeffery Lee — this time, by lethal injection — after courts said doing so using nitrogen gas was “likely unconstitutional.”

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Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., around 2002.
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Seattle’s Police Chief Resigns Under Pressure After Festival Shooting

Par :Anna Griffin
The decision followed days of criticism over how the department handled the release of information about a shooting that killed three people.

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Chief Shon Barnes of the Seattle Police Department at a vigil for victims of a shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival.
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Texas Parents Try New Tactic to Remove Ten Commandments From Schools

Par :J. David Goodman
A lawsuit filed by three parents argues that the displays violate a state religious freedom law and asks for them to be removed before school starts in August.

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A Ten Commandments poster displayed in a classroom in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Two More Appeals Courts Rule Against Trump’s Detention Policy

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
The rulings deepen a split across the judiciary, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will consider the legality of detaining undocumented immigrants indefinitely.

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Large tents meant to house thousands of immigrant detainees at Camp East Montana, a detention facility built at Fort Bliss in El Paso.
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Dulles Airport’s Reviled ‘People Movers’ May Be Lurching Into the Sunset

Par :Sopan Deb
A $22.5 billion redesign plan eliminates the “mobile lounges,” which were conceived as a way of making air travel more efficient. Many passengers found the opposite to be true.

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A mobile lounge at Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia last year.
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Does Congress Have the Power to Stop the Iran War?

Par :Peter Baker · Paul Abowd · Thomas Vollkommer · Jon Hazell · Jon Miller · Ray Whitehouse · Stephanie Swart and Rafaela Balster
In theory, the War Powers Act gives Congress the power to end a war. But our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, describes how President Trump is the latest president to find ways to engage in war without congressional approval.
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Trump’s Nominee to Oversee VOA, Sarah B. Rogers, Suggests Return of Journalists on Leave

Par :Minho Kim
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the president’s earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.

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During a confirmation hearing on Thursday, Sarah B. Rogers, President Trump’s nominee to lead the parent organization of Voice of America, suggested she would reinstate many of the journalists who had been placed on paid leave after an executive order effectively dismantled the organization last year.
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Trump’s Effort to Gut Education Dept. Rebuked by Senate Committee

Par :Michael C. Bender
The bipartisan bill is a long way from becoming law, but it represents the strongest opposition yet from Congress to the administration’s agenda.

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The vote represented the sharpest opposition from Congress over the administration’s attempt to eliminate the Education Department.
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Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes Exits Race for Wisconsin Governor

Par :Mitch Smith and Reid J. Epstein
With a democratic socialist, Francesca Hong, leading in polls, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said he was ending his campaign in the closely divided state.

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Mandela Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, in Madison in June.
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U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference

Par :Remy Tumin
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

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A map presented by the State Department at AIDS 2026, a conference in Brazil this week.
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Colin Gray, Father of Teenage Shooter in Georgia, Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Par :Rick Rojas and Johnny Kauffman
Prosecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.

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Why Democrats Won’t Stop Forcing Votes On Trump’s Iran War Powers

Par :Robert Jimison
Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, put forward this week the latest measure to rein in the president’s war powers.
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Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans

Par :Theodore Schleifer
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.

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Elon Musk was the biggest donor in the 2024 presidential election, when he spent hundreds of millions.
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A ‘Zombie Court’ for Terror Cases Awakens

Par :Adam Liptak
Dormant for 30 years, a little-known tribunal is hearing its first case.

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The William B. Bryant Annex in Washington, D.C.
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Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Give Judiciary Control of Some Courthouses

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
A new bipartisan bill comes after years of complaints from the courts that the General Services Administration is a bad landlord.

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Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and the lead sponsor of a new bipartisan bill, said the purpose of the proposed law was to “ensure our federal courthouses remain safe, secure and operating effectively for those who work in and visit them.”
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Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination

Par :Glenn Thrush · Michael Gold and Carl Hulse
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.

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The two senators object to a deal negotiated by Todd Blanche and President Trump’s personal lawyers to resolve a lawsuit the president had filed against the I.R.S.
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Erica Schwartz, Trump’s Nominee for C.D.C. Director, Advances to Full Senate Vote

Par :Apoorva Mandavilli
A vote to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz, who has publicly supported childhood vaccines, will take place in the full Senate.

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Dr. Erica Schwartz during her nomination hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Labor and Pensions in Washington earlier this month.
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U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems

Par :Dustin Volz and Ernesto Londoño
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

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Dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota were the targets of a cyberattack this week.
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A Fire Burned Next Door. Now They Live With the Stench of Rotting Meat.

Par :Orlando Mayorquín and Ana Facio-Krajcer
The Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles is still dealing with foul odor and fears over possible toxins over a month after a cold-storage facility burst into flames.

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The nearly 500,000-square-foot facility burst into flames on June 17, blanketing the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles in thick smoke for days.
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DOJ Seeks to Use Court to Deport Mother of Convicted ISIS Supporter

Par :Alan Feuer and Adam Sella
The case is a test of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected.

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The Justice Department headquarters in Washington last month.
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How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race

Par :Matt Flegenheimer
How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.

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“I am your voice,” said Representative Haley Stevens, a four-term congresswoman who is running for Senate in Michigan, after her accent was mocked online.
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A Bay Area Pastor Made an A.I. Twin to Talk About God at Any Time

Par :Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff
To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it.

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Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards

Par :Soumya Karlamangla
The rise and fall of pinot noir symbolizes the larger struggles of the wine industry as younger generations turn to other beverages.

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Monterey County, about 100 miles south of San Francisco, is an agricultural hub that vacillates between fog-shrouded cool and a sunny maritime climate, which also makes the terrain ideal for delicate wine grapes.
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Fertility Doctor Accused of Using Own Sperm to Impregnate Woman

Par :Mack Liederman
Dr. Dennis Lutz, the chairman of the University of North Dakota’s OB-GYN department, did not deny the claims in a lawsuit. The university said it intends to fire him.

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A spokesman for the University of North Dakota said it was taking steps to fire Dr. Dennis Lutz, the chairman of the OB-GYN department.
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Tributes, and Politics Too, at Lindsey Graham’s Funeral in South Carolina

Par :Emily Davies
A gathering of South Carolina’s political elite paid tribute to the late senator’s career against a backdrop of a highly competitive race to replace him.

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Mr. Graham’s funeral took place at First Baptist Church of Columbia.
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Clara Ester, Who Was With Martin Luther King Jr. in His Last Moments, Dies at 78

Par :Jeré Longman
A Memphis college student and activist, she witnessed Dr. King’s assassination in 1968 when he was shot at his motel and ran to him to check his pulse.

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On April 4, 1968, Clara Ester drove to the Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot outside his room.
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U.S. Strikes Iran Again, as Trump Encounters a More Determined Adversary in Widened War

Par :Julian E. Barnes · Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
The United States is again exchanging strikes with Iran, just days after the president appeared to reject plans to escalate.

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President Trump in Oakland County Michigan on Monday. The war that President Trump has been trying to bring to a diplomatic conclusion since April is now threatening to grow bigger.
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Trump Has Made Billions in Office. Will His Party Pay Politically?

Par :Jess Bidgood
The president took in a staggering $2.2 billion last year while in office. Democrats are hoping to make it a campaign issue in the midterm elections.

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Source: Donald Trump’s financial disclosure forms
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Trump Unveils $22.5 Billion Redesign of Dulles Airport

Par :Karoun Demirjian
The project would make the airport easier to navigate and include a new United lounge, officials said. It’s part of the president’s plans to remake the Washington area.

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The main AeroTrain station at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., in 2025.
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Families Face Anxiety, Angst as Loved Ones Are Deployed to Fight Iran

Par :Bernard Mokam and Georgia Gee
As the war with Iran has continued, some are finding that the stress is bringing back old anxieties.

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Mental health counselors say they are attending to more military families who are reporting stress and anxiety about a conflict that has taken the lives of at least 18 service members and wounded more than 400.
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10 Women Accuse Jared Leto of Sexual Misconduct in BBC Report

Par :Remy Tumin
The accusations include sex with underage girls and sexually explicit messages. The actor denied the allegations.

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Jared Leto at the premiere for “Tron: Ares” in Los Angeles in October.
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Senators Cornyn and Tillis Force Delay of Blanche Nomination Over Trump’s IRS Deal

Par :Glenn Thrush and Michael Gold
John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the nominee for attorney general of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump’s suit against the agency.

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Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, cannot afford to lose a single Republican vote.
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Lindsay Clancy Trial Update: In 911 Call, Husband Screams, ‘She Killed the Kids’

Par :Jenna Russell
Prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy planned the killings of her three young children. Her lawyers point to her severe postpartum mental illness.

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Patrick Clancy, testifying in court on Monday in Plymouth, Mass. On Tuesday, his voice was barely audible at times.
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With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue

Par :Devlin Barrett and Alan Feuer
A seven-figure settlement was announced hours before senators skeptical about the so-called weaponization fund delayed a crucial vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.

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Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has said the Justice Department dropped its plan for a $1.8 billion fund to pay purported victims of government weaponization, but the department can make such payouts even without a formal fund structure.
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Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Sweeping New Tariff Powers

Par :Alan Rappeport
A bipartisan bill in the Senate would allow President Trump to impose tariffs on the biggest importers of Russian energy.

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The president has expressed a preference for using tariffs over sanctions as an economic weapon.
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Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says

Par :David Ovalle
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.

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Vinita Prabhakar, who taught English at South Florida State College, said in an interview that she assigned the story to challenge her students.
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Obama Endorses Josh Turek in Iowa Senate Race With Basketball Video

Par :Tim Balk
The former president is trying to help Josh Turek net a Senate seat in Iowa, which Democrats see as one of their best pickup opportunities of the midterms.

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Former President Barack Obama made one of his first endorsements of the midterm elections, backing Josh Turek, a centrist state lawmaker in Iowa seeking the state’s Senate seat.
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