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In Michigan Senate Race, Ocasio-Cortez Joins El-Sayed on Trail in Trump Country

Par : Tim Balk
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Michigan, campaigned with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday, including in areas won by President Trump.
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5 Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Maine

The race’s fourth and final debate centered on whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.

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Troy Jackson answering a question during a debate with Senator Susan Collins at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, on Thursday.
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Trump Ally, Paolo Zampolli, Leaves State Department

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump associate, gained attention earlier this year with a report that his ex-wife had been detained by ICE after his request.

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Paolo Zampolli in Belgrade in April.
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Judge Refuses to Reverse Penalties Against Crypto Firm With Ties to Trump Family

The ruling denied a bid by Gemini Trust and the C.F.T.C. to nullify a settlement that required the company to pay $5 million for misleading federal regulators.

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the founders of Gemini Trust, have backed ventures by President Trump and his two oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
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A Bitter White House Feud, Even by Trump-Era Standards: Alina Mildon and Richard Grenell

Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.

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President Trump had appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center.
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Oregon Has Approved Tight Gun Laws, but They Have Been Held Up in Courts

The state has passed restrictive measures popular among gun safety activists. The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting seemed poised to set off conversations about gun control.

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A sheriff’s deputy outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a shooting took place on Thursday.
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Man Found in Barrel in Lake Mead in 2022 Is Identified by Las Vegas Police

The victim was shot once in the head in the early 1980s, the authorities said, and was identified after family members from Arkansas could provide a DNA match.

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Lake Mead last month in Boulder City, Nev. As the lake’s levels fluctuate, a number of human remains have been found in recent years.
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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

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President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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Clancy Trial’s Holdout Juror Says That the Defendant Was ‘Methodical’

In an interview with Fox News, his first, Michael P. Desronvil said that Lindsay Clancy had thought through the killing of her three children. That, he said, was a major reason he wanted to see her convicted.

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Lindsay Clancy never denied that she killed her children at her Massachusetts home in 2023.
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Trump Cancels Planned Execution Livestream of Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter

The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

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A memorial display for the soldiers killed in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, seen in April 2014.
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Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says

Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
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Cornell’s Powerful Board Meets as It Fights to Protect Its Reputation

The president argued this week that replacing him would be a mistake.

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Trustees, alumni and others are gathering at Cornell University for meetings and homecoming this week, as the university faces a crisis over sexual assault allegations.
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How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved Under Trump

President Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine has raised questions about the future of U.S. support.

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President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last December.
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At Least 2 People Are Shot at an Elementary School in Oregon

The suspect in the shooting was killed at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., according to the authorities, and the conditions of the injured were not immediately known.

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Children were among “multiple victims” in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Thursday, a police spokeswoman said.
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Katie Zacharia Admits Failing Bar, but Defends Calling Herself a Lawyer

In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.

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Katie Zacharia, the White House press secretary, aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. “I woke up at 3 in the morning on Tuesday to prepare with what I had,” she said of her first press briefing.
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A Guide to State Legislature Elections and Where Partisan Control Is at Stake

A guide to the states where legislatures are up for grabs.

A Crawford County Democratic Party meeting in Gays Mills, Wis., in August.
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Teen Arrested Over Plan to Attack Hindu Temple, Officials Say

The suspect in suburban Chicago was in the parking lot of the temple on Sunday and told a co-worker that his gun had jammed, the authorities said.

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A security vehicle is parked outside of Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora, Ill., on Thursday.
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Luna, a Dog Who Was Lost in Yellowstone for a Month, Is Found Safe

A 10-year-old Jack Russell Terrier/Chihuahua mix, Luna lost half her weight but was otherwise healthy after several weeks in Yellowstone National Park.

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Hopes that Luna was alive stayed high because there were reported sightings almost every day, from volunteer searchers, visitors and staff members at Yellowstone National Park.
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Senators Demand Investigation Into Ukraine Satellite Disruption

Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.

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A Ukrainian drone operator prepares for a strike on a house in Russian-occupied Ukraine in July.
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ICE Agents Who Rammed a Worker in Houston Were Chasing a Dead Man, Family Says

ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.

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Federal immigration agents struck and injured a Mexican man in Houston on Saturday while conducting an operation.
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More Trump Allies Aided Pro-Russian Balkan Government

The daughter of the president’s chief of staff joined an American businessman in Republika Srpska as he explored a gas pipeline. And six current and former campaign advisers recently traveled there for an election.
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Many Figures Opposed Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

A retired general, a Catholic archbishop for the military and one of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s victims were among those who had spoken out.

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A memorial service at Fort Hood days after the mass shooting there in 2009.
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.

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A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
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How Trump Is Trying to Assert Control Over the Election

Many election officials fear that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to challenge the midterm results in November if they do not favor Republicans. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes what the administration is doing.
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Fired FBI Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation Sue Patel and Others

The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.

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The lawsuit says that Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, praised some of the fired employees privately before terminating them.
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Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results

Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

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President Trump, who has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, has been relentless in his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of American voting.
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‘Suspicious Substances’ Sent to Senators and State Election Officials

Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating a series of letters mailed to members of Congress and secretaries of state in recent days.

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The F.B.I. said in a statement that it was working to find those responsible for the letters but provided no information on potential suspects.
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Harvard Endowment Soars to $68 Billion Even as Federal Cuts Force Layoffs

The stock market has boosted Harvard’s wealth. But as federal funding slumps, the school is seeking corporate sponsors to underwrite research.

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Harvard University’s endowment may be growing, but its leaders say it faces other financial troubles a large endowment can’t necessarily fix.
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James Talarico Raises Quarterly Record of $64 Million in Texas Senate Race Against Ken Paxton

Par : John Yoon
The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.

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James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, during a campaign rally in Houston earlier this year.
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Trump Cancels Planned Execution Livestream of Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter

The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Democratic Senators Move to Block U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal

The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.

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Democrats Worry About Tight Midterm Races in Maine, Michigan and Minnesota

Despite hopes for a blue wave, Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Maine and Michigan are facing local political headwinds and have struggled to open up clear daylight in the polls.

© Jenn Ackerman, Nick Hagen and Ryan David Brown for The New York Times

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These Legislatures Could See Big Changes in November

Statehouses make health-care policy, guide education, and may redraw congressional districts ahead of 2028. With the stakes high, more than 6,100 legislators will be elected Nov. 3.

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Elon Musk and Other Donors Pile $94 Million Into House Republican Effort

The party’s top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.

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Elon Musk has donated $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Speaker Mike Johnson.
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As Early Midterm Voting Looms, a Glitch Delays 600,000 Texas Voter Registrations

Par : John Yoon
Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.

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Because of a software glitch, the data of people who requested voter registration when they applied for driver’s licenses was not recorded.
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In Divided Portland, Ore., Anti-Police Posts Fuel a Fight Over the Future

When social media posts denouncing the police surfaced, they were supposed to harm a socialist’s re-election. But the democratic socialists of Portland, and other cities, are showing their strength.

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Social media posts from Mitch Green, a city councilor in Portland, Ore., and democratic socialist, excoriated the police.
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Why Are Migrant Children in Court Without a Lawyer?

Many unaccompanied minors are facing deportation hearings without a lawyer because of the Trump administration’s dispute with an organization that helps provide legal representation to thousands of migrant children. Our national reporter Jazmine Ulloa explains. Read more: https://nyti.ms/3TJaBEB
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As Texas Schools Add Police Officers to Campuses, Some Students Are Facing Serious Charges

More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.

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A 12-year-old in the Galveston school district was arrested after being disruptive and refusing to head to the school lobby.
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7 Years Old, No Lawyer: Migrant Children Face Deportation Hearings Alone

For years, the government has helped secure lawyers for minors who arrive at the southern border. But a contract dispute has forced many children to face immigration judges on their own.

© Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Unaccompanied minors appeared virtually at an immigration court in New York.
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