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Roger Marshall, a Kansas Senator Facing Re-Election, Settles a Bakery Bill 6 Years Later

Par : Tim Balk
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.

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Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kansas, at the U.S. Capitol last year.
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What to Know About Isaias, the First Atlantic Hurricane of the Season

Par : Maia Spoto
After making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane, Isaias weakened considerably and headed north. Now, parts of the Southeast are at risk of flash floods.

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Buildings damaged by Hurricane Isaias in Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Saturday.
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‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution

Par : Shawn McCreesh
A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.

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President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tenn., on Saturday.
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What to Know About Isaias, the First Atlantic Hurricane of the Season

Par : Maia Spoto
After making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane, Isaias weakened considerably and headed north. Now, parts of the Southeast are at risk of flash floods.

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Buildings damaged by Hurricane Isaias in Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Saturday.
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Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War

Par : John Ismay
In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who died or were wounded in support roles.

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U.S. officials at a dignified transfer for Army soldiers killed in action while deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan, in July. The Pentagon has raised the number of U.S. service members killed and wounded during operations related to the Iran war.
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Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia

Par : Tim Balk and Evan Gorelick
High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.

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Former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, left, and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska took issue with President Trump’s announcement.
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4 Killed as a Weakened Isaias Pushes Through the Southeast

Par : David Ovalle
Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, but towns near the landfall site in Florida were relieved that the hurricane damage was not worse.

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Downed trees in Seacrest Beach, Fla., on Saturday. The eye of Hurricane Isaias made landfall about 30 miles away on Friday night.
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Trump Says He Should Have Won ‘8 Nobel Peace Prizes’ After Being Snubbed

Par : Mark Walker
The president took to social media on Friday and Saturday to criticize the choice of Navi Pillay and disparage the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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One Philadelphia Police Officer Killed, Another Shot 12 Times in Ambush Attack

Par : Campbell Robertson
Two officers responding to the call took “significant fire.” Officials said the gunman fired at 9 other officers who responded to the scene.

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As the two officers were taken to the hospital, police and members of the SWAT team were sent to the scene.
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More Than 500 Trees to Be Cut Down at D.C. Golf Course That Trump Wants to Redo

Par : Luke Broadwater
The National Park Service notified a court of the plan as part of continuing litigation over the president’s proposal to create a “champion-level” course.

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Workers used a tree harvester to cut down a tree at East Potomac Golf Links while golfers played the course on Saturday.
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Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt

Par : Emily Cochrane
Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.

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Christa Pike survived an execution attempt and has now been discharged from the hospital.
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Executions, After Christa Pike, Are on the Minds of a Divided Public

Par : Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
A botched execution and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and divisions over the most severe form of punishment.

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People gathered during a March 4 Mercy protest against the death penalty at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville last month, ahead of the scheduled execution of Christa Pike.
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Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels With Three Weeks to Go

Par : Patricia Mazzei and Shane Goldmacher
Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.

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Fuel prices have soared throughout the country since President Trump started a war against Iran.
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Fact-Checking Senate Ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina

Par : Linda Qiu
We assess three campaign ads in the battleground states that have focused on the cost of living.

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After Christa Pike’s Botched Execution, Tennessee’s Lethal Injection Protocol Draws Scrutiny

Par : Emily Cochrane
The differences between the current protocol and the previous one have become a focus in Christa Pike’s failed execution.

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Christa Pike’s lawyers — Randy Spivey, at the podium, and Luke Ihnen, behind Mr. Spivey — hold a news conference on Wednesday in Nashville.
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7 Coffins Are Found Near North Dakota Governor’s Residence

Par : Christine Hauser
The bodies are believed to have been overlooked when a cemetery at the current site of the governor’s residence in Bismarck was moved in the 1870s, during the capital’s early settlement period.

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A spokesman for Gov. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota said that human remains from an old cemetery that were found near the governor’s residence would be “treated with appropriate care and respect.”
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Could the Oregon Governor’s Race Be a Republican Hope?

Par : Anna Griffin and Betsy Hammond
Republicans are playing defense in some of the most conservative parts of the country, but an unpopular Democratic governor has them hopeful in a progressive West Coast state.

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State Senator Christine Drazan, left, is running against Gov. Tina Kotek, an incumbent Democrat, in a surprisingly tight governor’s race.
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For Trump, a Firing Squad on Livestream Becomes the Latest Spectacle

Par : Peter Baker
The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.

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A memorial in Killeen, Texas, for soldiers killed at Fort Hood in 2009.
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Blogger on Trial: Is a Lewd Image of Shrek Free Speech or Harassment?

Par : Madison Malone Kircher
An Ohio municipal court heard a misdemeanor case that considered the limits of political discourse in the age of the internet.

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D.J. Byrnes, known as The Rooster, prowls the Ohio Statehouse for his guerrilla journalism.
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Could Face Challenge in Federal Courts

Par : Abbie VanSickle and John Ismay
Legal experts say the former Army officer convicted in a 2009 mass shooting could face a narrow, rushed path to appeal a public execution by firing squad.

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Nidal Malik Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army Base in 2009. It is unclear he will ask the courts to block the administration’s plans to execute him.
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Trump Casts Himself as Columbus’s Protector in Pitch to Italian Americans

Par : Jonathan Swan
President Trump sought to inject the Genoese explorer into the current political conversation.

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President Trump posing in front of a poster of a Christopher Columbus statue at the White House on Friday.
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Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Immigrant Detention at Guantánamo

Par : Carol Rosenberg
The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees.

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The U.S. military and contractors put up this tent compound in early 2025 at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to house immigration detainees designated for deportation from the United States. They were taken down last year, never used.
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Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices

Par : Chris Cameron · Ivan Penn and Valerie Hopkins
President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.

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Diesel prices at a gas station in the Bronx last month.
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Donor Says Kimberly Guilfoyle Sought Money From Him to Cover Debt

Par : Sharon LaFraniere
Correspondence suggests that Ms. Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle and the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were previously paid by the donor, Eric Deters, to speak at pro-Trump events he held in Kentucky.
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Vance Says He Would Not Watch Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter

Par : Chris Cameron
The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.

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“If it’s through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it,” Vice President JD Vance said of the execution during a visit to Kentucky and Ohio on Friday.
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Some G.O.P. Lawmakers Pan Hegseth’s Plan to Stream Execution of Fort Hood Shooter

Par : Robert Jimison
Some G.O.P. members of Congress said that broadcasting the execution of the Fort Hood shooter was inappropriate, though others gleefully applauded it.

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The execution would be the military’s first since 1961.
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Katie Zacharia Picked as Trump’s New White House Press Secretary

Par : Hamed Aleaziz · Tyler Pager and Karoun Demirjian
Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who is also an adviser to the company that runs President Trump’s social media site, Truth Social. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.

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Katie Zacharia at a film premiere in Tennessee in December.
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James Talarico Returns to Senate Campaign Trail in Texas After 10-Day Absence

Par : Sasha von Oldershausen and J. David Goodman
Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with “a nasty case of the flu.”

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James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, had not appeared in public before Friday since Sept. 29.
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Kansas Senate Race Is a Surprising New Midterm Fight

Par : Jess Bidgood
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.

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Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and a megachurch pastor, is running for Senate in Kansas against Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican.
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Ocasio-Cortez to Campaign for El-Sayed on Bus Tour in Michigan

Par : Shane Goldmacher
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, ahead of the primary. She also appeared with him at a fund-raiser in New York this week.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, left, and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, campaigned together in Detroit earlier this year.
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Top Democratic Group Pumps Millions Into Kansas Senate Race

Par : Bayliss Wagner
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
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Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions

Par : Edward Wong and Jeanna Smialek
U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.

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The move is an intensification in the Trump administration’s push to undermine the International Criminal Court.
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Retiring Senator Dick Durbin Laments the Decline of Legislating

Par : Carl Hulse
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, learned how to take his fights to the floor and prevail — except in one crucial case.

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Senator Richard J. Durbin is one of the prominent members of Congress winding down long careers at the end of the year.
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F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ Data

Par : Devlin Barrett and Dustin Volz
The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.

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The hack last month scooped up home addresses, Social Security numbers, sensitive job assignments and more, according to a New York Times analysis of some of the records.
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Fiery Senate Debates in Maine, Michigan and Georgia: Five Takeaways

Par : Lisa Lerer · Reid J. Epstein and Patricia Mazzei
Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and former Representative Mike Rogers debated in Michigan on Thursday night.
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Why This Election Could Be More Complicated for Democrats Than Polls Suggest

Par : Reid J. Epstein
The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.

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President Trump at a rally in Nebraska on Monday. The Republican Party is defending seats even in states that Mr. Trump won by double digits in 2024.
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Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God

Par : Lauren McGaughy
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.

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Ken Paxton, candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during the 2026 Republican Party of Texas State Convention in Houston.
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil

Par : Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.

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President Trump’s demands for revenge have divided the Justice Department, diverted resources from other investigations and mingled politics with federal law enforcement.
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The Controversial Class That M.I.T. Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach

Par : Mark Arsenault
Michel DeGraff, a vocal pro-Palestinian activist, can’t be easily fired because he has tenure. But he has been kicked out of his department.

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Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor at M.I.T., was pushed out of the university’s linguistics section.
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Fiery Senate Debates in Maine, Michigan and Georgia: Five Takeaways

Par : Lisa Lerer · Reid J. Epstein and Patricia Mazzei
Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and former Representative Mike Rogers debated in Michigan on Thursday night.
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5 Key Moments From Hostile Michigan Senate Debate Between El-Sayed and Rogers

Par : Bayliss Wagner and Kellen Browning
Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.

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