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Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Mandating Voter I.D.

Par :Yan Zhuang
He also wants to restrict mail-in voting and allow only paper ballots. The Constitution doesn’t give the president explicit authority over election law.

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President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he would sign an executive order mandating voter ID.
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From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney, Trump Has an Opinion to Share

Par :Katie Rogers
In his second term, President Trump is using his power to reshape American culture, not just American policy. He has threatened consequences for many who disagree.

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Mr. Trump at the Kennedy Center earlier this month.
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Large Russian Air Attack Hits Ukraine, Amid Stalled Bid for Peace Talks

Par :Constant Méheut
It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.

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The site of a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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Mexico’s President Struggles to Escape Trump’s Growing Demands

Par :Jack Nicas
After months of negotiation and concessions, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has found herself in a cycle of pressure from the White House.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum and her cabinet are said to be frustrated that they have worked hard to meet Washington’s demands, and yet it never seems to be enough.
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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

Par :Minho Kim
The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

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A Voice of America studio in Washington.
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

Par :Mujib Mashal · Tyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

Par :Mujib Mashal · Tyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

Par :Minho Kim
The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

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A Voice of America studio in Washington.
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Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Par :Zach Montague
Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.

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The Trump administration has sought to expand the process known as expedited removal, which typically avoids court proceedings.
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Trump Administration Weighs Having Military Lawyers Work as Immigration Judges

Par :Charlie Savage · John Ismay · Helene Cooper · Eric Schmitt and Greg Jaffe
No final decision has been made, but the proposal comes as President Trump increasingly uses the military in various aspects of domestic life.

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The proposal would send military lawyers to work at the Justice Department in an effort to reduce the capacity of the immigration system to process a backlog.
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How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health

Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman
The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listened to President Trump’s remarks during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
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For Democrats, Hindsight Is 2021

Par :Reid J. Epstein
Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.

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The U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Back in the spring of 2021, when Democrats controlled the House and Senate, there were two measures that would have helped to protect against some of President Trump’s current moves.
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Appeals Court Upholds Protections for Venezuelans, but to Little Effect

Par :Zach Montague
The decision affirmed a lower court’s ruling from March, but was overshadowed by a Supreme Court order that allowed the Trump administration to pursue deportations anyway.

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A Temporary Protected Status application clinic in New York in 2023.
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Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

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President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.
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Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

Par :Brad Plumer
The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.

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Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.
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Challenge Emerges to Trump-Appointed Prosecutor in Los Angeles

Par :Danny Hakim
The federal public defender's office challenged the legality of allowing the U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and Las Vegas to continue in their jobs without congressional approval.

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A federal public defender’s office in California filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the appointment of Bill Essayli, the acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
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What to Know About Secret Service Protection for Former Vice Presidents

Par :Ashley Ahn
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection would have ended in July, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed an order extending it for another year.
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Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York

Par :Edward Wong and Adam Rasgon
The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration’s move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood.

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The move by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations meeting.
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Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York

Par :Edward Wong and Adam Rasgon
The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration’s move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood.

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The move by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations meeting.
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Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents

Par :Alan Feuer
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.

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Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.
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Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid

Par :Catie Edmondson
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.

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The administration is attempting to unilaterally claw back money that has already been appropriated by running out the clock for Congress to reject its request before the funding expires.
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Weapons to Start Flowing Into Ukraine Under European Deal With Trump

Par :Lara Jakes
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.

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Russia has continued to pound Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine with airstrikes, including a barrage on Thursday that killed at least 23 people in the capital.
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Emil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation

Par :Devlin Barrett
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.

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Emil Bove III was narrowly confirmed last month to serve on a powerful appeals court judgeship.
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Trump Cancels Kamala Harris’s Secret Service Protection

Par :Tyler Pager
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had extended Ms. Harris’s protection beyond that.

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Kamala Harris, then the vice president, on her way to a campaign rally in Wisconsin in October 2024.
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As Bolsonaro Heads to Trial, Brazil Faces a Dilemma: How to Prosecute a President?

Par :Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is heading to trial. But his path there has stirred concern that the judiciary has overstepped its bounds.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, during an interview with The New York Times at his party’s headquarters in January.
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How the Future of the Fed Came to Rest on Lisa Cook

Par :Colby Smith and Ben Casselman
President Trump’s effort to oust the Federal Reserve governor has kicked off a landmark legal battle, one that will have far-reaching consequences for the institution’s independence.

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Lisa Cook, who was appointed to the Fed’s board of governors in 2022, during a July conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington.
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Gregory Bovino Is Leading the California Immigration Crackdown

Par :Hamed Aleaziz and Jesus Jiménez
Gregory Bovino has orchestrated thousands of arrests, using confrontational tactics that have made him a MAGA star. His critics say he’s crossing legal and political lines.

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Earlier this summer, Gregory Bovino, 55, was named the tactical commander in charge of immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area.
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Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid

Par :Zach Montague
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.
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Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections

Par :Chris Cameron
The pre-Labor Day order included NASA, the National Weather Service and the agency that oversees Voice of America.

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NASA was among the government agencies ordered to end all collective bargaining agreements.
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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

Par :Greg Jaffe
The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.

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The United States Military Academy, in West Point, N.Y.
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Lawyers for Abrego Garcia Seek Gag Order Against Trump Officials

Par :Alan Feuer
The request came after President Trump and several of his top aides had attacked Mr. Abrego Garcia as a threat, even though federal judges have ruled that he is not a danger to the public.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore on Monday.
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Trump Officials Threaten Denver Public School Funding Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

Par :Chris Cameron
The Education Department gave Denver Public Schools 10 days to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

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Denver East High School has an all-gender restroom. The Trump administration determined that that violated students’ civil rights.
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Trump and His Officials Target Fed and CDC, Long Seen as Above Politics

Par :Luke Broadwater
Trump officials say the president is within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.

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Susan Monarez was fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control this week, White House officials said. The move came after she declined to fire agency officials or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine panel overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Firing of the Head of Voice of America

Par :Minho Kim
The ruling is a setback to President Trump and Kari Lake, a Trump ally who has led efforts to shutter federally funded news networks.

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A federal judge found that Trump officials cannot remove Mike Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, “without the approval of” the International Broadcasting Advisory Board.
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Prosecutors Reduce Felony Charge Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Par :Alan Feuer
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has struggled to convince judges and grand jurors of the viability of several cases arising from President Trump’s deployment of troops and federal agents to fight crime.

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Sean C. Dunn, second from left, was arrested in Washington earlier this month after throwing a sandwich at a law enforcement agent.
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Trump Administration Plans Immigration Crackdown in Chicago

Par :Hamed Aleaziz
The plans involve sending in hundreds of homeland security officers and using a naval base as a staging area.

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The main entrance on Thursday of the Naval Station Great Lakes, located about 35 miles north of Chicago.
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19 Democratic Governors Warn Trump Not to Send Troops to Their States

Par :Reid J. Epstein
President Trump’s extraordinary push to override local authority and militarize cities in Democratic-run states has prompted an unusually united response from state leaders.

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Earlier this week Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois warned President Trump to keep the military out of Chicago and reminded his audience that of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates, eight are led by Republican governors.
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Trump and Democrats Float Unusual Midterm Conventions

Par :Shane Goldmacher
Both parties appear to be weighing gatherings that would gin up excitement for candidates in 2026 — and give a major platform for ambitious politicians hoping to lead the parties in 2028.

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Donald J. Trump speaking on the final night of the Republican National Convention last year.
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Neil Young Has a New Protest Song Seemingly Aimed at Donald Trump

Par :Ben Sisario
The new song, “Big Crime,” does not mention President Trump by name but includes lines such as, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.”

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Neil Young onstage in July. He debuted a new song this week called “Big Crime” that takes aim at President Trump.
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European Nations Move to Restart Iran Sanctions Over Nuclear Program

Par :Steven Erlanger
Britain, France and Germany said the country had violated the terms of a 2015 nuclear deal. Iran’s foreign minister called their action “illegal.”

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The headquarters in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspectors have long monitored Iran’s nuclear activities.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook Sues Trump Over Dismissal

Par :Tony Romm · Ben Casselman and Colby Smith
Lisa Cook, who has not been charged with a crime, sought to retain her position, arguing her firing was “unprecedented and illegal.”

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Many experts have questioned the legality of President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor.
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Trump and Advisers, Including Kushner, Meet on Gaza’s Future

Par :Maggie Haberman
The meeting focused on the postwar future of the Gaza Strip, where Mr. Trump has mused about removing Palestinian residents and setting up a luxury resort.

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Palestinian families fleeing their homes north of Gaza City on Monday, after Israeli military officials announced plans for a full-scale assault on the city.
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Nothing Could Topple the ‘Queen of Heels.’ Then Trump Came Along.

Par :Ana Swanson
The president’s steep tariffs and erratic moves have turned manufacturing abroad into a minefield, even for entrepreneurs who set up in countries viewed as safe alternatives to China.

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Shoes designed by Ruthie Davis retail for $500 to $1,000, but she said costs, including shipping, marketing and tariffs, made it hard for her to turn a profit.
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2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 23

Par :Maria Varenikova and Finbarr O’Reilly
The strikes, which hit a five-story apartment building, a shopping mall and buildings used by European governments, were the largest on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit.

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Kim Jong-un to be Among U.S. Rivals Convening in Beijing

Par :Choe Sang-Hun and Lars Dolder
They will join China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and about 20 other heads of state, some of whom share a strong distrust of the United States.

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North Korea’s state news agency released a photo on Thursday that it said showed Kim Jong-un visiting a military base at an undisclosed location.
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Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump

Par :Tiffany May and David Pierson
As the outspoken Hong Kong publisher awaits a verdict, his trial has become a test of China’s resolve to crush dissent, and of whether President Trump can free him.

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Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in December 2020, when he was ordered back to jail, just days after he had been granted bail.
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John Bolton Inquiry Eyes Emails Obtained by Foreign Government

Par :Devlin Barrett · Julian E. Barnes · Michael S. Schmidt · Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman
It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.

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An F.B.I. agent leaving with a box from John R. Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Md., last week.
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