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A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing

Par :Jack Healy and Anna Griffin
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk left a trail of evidence and had no way to outrun his parents’ recognition, court documents showed.

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F.B.I. officials last week outside the home of the parents of the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Fired C.D.C. Director to Testify About Her Clash With Kennedy

Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Wednesday’s hearing before the Senate health committee promises to be a referendum on the health secretary’s leadership and expose a rocky time at the nation’s public health agency.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is set to appear before the Senate health committee on Wednesday.
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At Home and on the Seas, Trump Expands Use of American Force

Par :David E. Sanger
His first term focused on America’s rival superpowers. Now the emphasis is on homeland defense and troops on city streets.

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President Trump signed an order on Monday to send federal resources to Memphis, including the National Guard.
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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

Par :Reid J. Epstein
Led by a former aide to Senator Harry Reid, the Searchlight Institute is hoping to persuade Democrats to play down causes like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights to appeal to more voters

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Adam Jentleson, center, is introducing the Searchlight Institute, with an annual budget of $10 million and a staff that includes, from left, Cam Thompson, Charlotte Swasey, Tré Easton and Danielle Deiseroth.
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He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

Par :Miriam Jordan
After three decades in California, Narciso Barranco was arrested by agents while weeding outside an IHOP, stirring outrage and a fight to stop his deportation.

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Narciso Barranco at home in Tustin, Calif.
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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Could Hamper Efforts to House the Homeless

Par :Jason DeParle and Caroline Gutman
President Trump’s signature domestic policy law could make it harder for states to fund programs to help people find stable housing.

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After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’

Par :Tyler Pager
Speaking at an educational summit, former President Barack Obama criticized his successor’s attacks on his political rivals in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Former President Barack Obama speaking last year. In recent months, Mr. Obama has gone increasingly public with his criticisms of President Trump and his administration.
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Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Seeking to Silence Opponents on Left

Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs · Andrew Duehren · Kenneth P. Vogel and Katie Rogers
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists.

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“The radical left has done tremendous damage to the country,” President Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, as he continued to play down violence on the right.
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Patel Plays the Familiar Role of Pugilist at a Senate Hearing

Par :Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar partisan groove that appeared to play to his strengths.

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“I’m not going anywhere!” Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
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House Passes D.C. Crime Bills as Trump Crackdown Continues

Par :Michael Gold
The legislation is part of a package that House Republicans are pushing to impose more federal control over the District in line with President Trump’s demands.

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Homeland Security Investigation agents and Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested a man for allegedly smoking marijuana in public last month.
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Federal Courts Want More Money From Congress for Security

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
The judiciary’s leadership met in Washington, emphasized their budgetary needs and said that threats against judges remained a problem.

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New legislation proposed by House Republicans would provide $58 million in additional money for the U.S. States Marshals Service and to protect the Supreme Court, as well as $30 million for lawmakers’ security. But it would not earmark new funds for the protection of lower-court judges.
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G.O.P. Again Cedes Power on Tariffs to Avoid Crossing Trump

Par :Robert Jimison
House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump’s tariffs.

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Tuesday’s maneuver was the latest instance in which House Republicans, many of whom have spent much of their career opposing tariffs as a matter of principle, have given up their power over trade.
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Democrats Oppose Stopgap Bill, Raising Odds of a Shutdown

Par :Catie Edmondson
After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer spoke to reporters last week about a possible government shutdown.
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Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children

Par :Zach Montague
A report filed to Congress on Tuesday alleges the Trump administration concealed data showing that dozens of children it sought to deport faced serious harm back in Guatemala.

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A report filed by the Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower protection group, said at least 30 of the 327 children the government cleared for imminent removal had “indicators of being a victim of child abuse, including death threats” in Guatemala, based on the government’s own findings.
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Trump Says Republicans Will Host a Midterm Convention Next Year

Par :Kellen Browning
The event could be an opportunity to energize the party, which will be playing defense as it seeks to retain control of Congress.

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President Trump speaking in the Oval Office on Monday. The Republican National Committee would likely be responsible for putting together the convention.
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Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She’ll Target ‘Hate Speech’

Par :Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters as the Trump administration pushes to punish anyone who celebrated his killing.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi later appeared to back away from a broad interpretation of her remarks on “hate speech,” which had raised free speech concerns.
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Shapiro, Denouncing Political Violence, Warns Trump Is Inflaming Tensions

Par :Katie Glueck
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the target of an arson attack this year, argued that political violence like the killing of Charlie Kirk requires universal condemnation.

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Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania last month. His remarks on Tuesday came five months after an arsonist set the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion ablaze as Mr. Shapiro and his family slept.
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Former C.D.C. Director to Tell Lawmakers She Was ‘Fired for Holding the Line’

Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Susan Monarez is set to provide her first detailed account of her ouster in testimony before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday.

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The removal of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a month after her Senate confirmation stunned public health leaders.
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Johnson Releases Spending Bill, Daring Democrats to Oppose It

Par :Catie Edmondson
The speaker put forward a stopgap bill to fund the government past Sept. 30, saying there was “zero chance” he would add concessions Democrats have demanded.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, spoke to reporters on Tuesday at the Capitol.
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Cassidy, His Job in Peril, Scrutinizes Kennedy on Vaccines

Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Megan Mineiro
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican physician and vaccine proponent who is facing a primary challenge from the right, has a fraught relationship with the health secretary.

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Senator Bill Cassidy will be in the spotlight on Wednesday, when Dr. Susan Monarez will appear before his committee at his invitation to tell her story publicly for the first time.
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Joe Manchin Would Like a Word. (OK, Maybe Several Words.)

Par :Robert Draper
The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.

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Joe Manchin III aboard his boat docked on Washington’s Wharf. Over his 14 years in the Senate, Mr. Manchin was often a pivotal figure in big-ticket legislative negotiations when he butted heads with liberals.
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Tim Walz Seeks Third Term as Governor of Minnesota

Par :Ernesto Londoño
Mr. Walz raised his national profile with a run for vice president. He has suggested that an additional term as governor would rule out the prospect of him running for president in 2028.

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Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, ran for vice president last year.
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White House Readies Appeal After 2nd Loss in Bid to Fire Lisa Cook

Par :Tony Romm
A court blocked a last-minute attempt on Monday to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed board ahead of a meeting to set interest rates.

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President Trump has sought to reconfigure the Federal Reserve’s board with loyalists, posing new threats to its political independence.
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Tim Walz Seeks Third Term as Governor of Minnesota

Par :Ernesto Londoño
Mr. Walz raised his national profile with a run for vice president. He has suggested that an additional term as governor would rule out the prospect of him running for president in 2028.

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Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, ran for vice president last year.
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He Fled Putin’s War. The U.S. Deported Him to a Russian Jail.

Par :Paul Sonne and Milana Mazaeva
Antiwar Russians are being sent back as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, despite facing imprisonment and other dangers.
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California’s Environmental Past Confronts Economic Worries of the Present

Par :Soumya Karlamangla
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have focused on pocketbook concerns this year, seeing their party’s national losses as a reckoning.

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California Democrats relaxed a landmark environmental law this year, hoping to spur more housing construction. Cities like San Francisco are struggling to build enough units.
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Former Republican Lt. Governor of Georgia Enters Governor’s Race as a Democrat

Par :Rick Rojas
Geoff Duncan could prove to be a wild card in an election next year that will be a crucial test for Georgia’s relatively new status as a swing state.

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Geoff Duncan, former lieutenant governor of Georgia, speaking at the Democratic National Convention last year.
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F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out on ‘Broken’ Trust

Par :Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
The two agents’ accounts offer an inside view of a bureau buffeted by politics and upheaval, adding to the scrutiny of the F.B.I. director as he prepares to testify to Congress.

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“We were always told that we would be taken care of and there would not be any retaliation for our assigned work,” Walter Giardina told his supervisors the day he was fired from his job as an F.B.I. agent, according to the 19-year bureau veteran.
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Why a Pennsylvania Court Election This November Could Matter in 2028

Par :Nick Corasaniti
Voters will decide whether three Democratic State Supreme Court justices will keep their seats in a swing state that will be crucial to the next presidential election.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices Kevin Dougherty, Christine Donohue and David Wecht are running in a retention election, which will decide whether the three justices who were elected as Democrats keep their seats.
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Which Living Democrat Does Cuomo Admire? He Can’t Name One.

Par :Lisa Lerer
In an interview with The New York Times, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a lifelong Democrat, said the party “is not meeting the moment.”

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Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he expected more Democratic leaders to endorse his opponent for mayor of New York City, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, before Election Day.
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Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana

Par :Chris Cameron
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled late Monday that she could not prevent a group of migrants from being sent onward to their home countries.
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Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana

Par :Chris Cameron
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled late Monday that she could not prevent a group of migrants from being sent onward to their home countries.
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Lina Hidalgo Will Not Run for Re-election in Texas

Par :J. David Goodman
Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in Harris County, which includes Houston, says she will not run for re-election or any other office in 2026.

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Lina Hidalgo’s decision ends — for the moment, at least — a meteoric political career that had fueled the hopes of many Texas Democrats and had drawn sustained and withering Republican attacks.
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Deception? Conflicting Paperwork? Clerical Error? How a Politician’s Mortgages Can Get Muddy

Par :Kate Kelly · Alexandra Berzon · Julie Tate and Kitty Bennett
Mortgage fraud allegations, like those President Trump has leveled against Lisa Cook, are hard to prove. A New York Times review of the holdings of other Washington officials shows how multiple mortgages can invite questions even when people act properly.
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Republicans Honor Charlie Kirk at Vigil in the Capitol

Par :Robert Jimison
Only a handful of Democrats and none of the party’s top leaders attended the ceremony, an outpouring of praise and mourning for the right-wing activist, who was assassinated last week.

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Representative Steve Scalise, center, denounced political violence at the vigil for Charlie Kirk on Monday.
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Schwarzenegger Urges Voters to Reject California Redistricting Measure

Par :Laurel Rosenhall
Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his first public rebuke since Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a gerrymander plan on the ballot.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former Republican governor of California, considers independent redistricting a key piece of his political legacy.
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Appeals Court Says Lisa Cook Can Remain on Fed Board

Par :Tony Romm · Colby Smith and Ben Casselman
The decision came the day before the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting at which policymakers are expected to cut interest rates.

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President Trump has tried to oust Lisa Cook from her role as a Federal Reserve governor over allegations of mortgage fraud, even though she hasn’t been charged with a crime.
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What Does ‘Real Unity’ Mean to the White House?

Par :Jess Bidgood
After Charlie Kirk’s death, the Trump administration has identified a bigger culprit: leftists bent on violence.

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Vice President JD Vance spoke on Charlie Kirk’s podcast on Monday from the White House.
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Young People Suing Trump Over Climate Have Their Day in Federal Court

Par :Karen Zraick
They claim Trump’s executive orders are unconstitutional. The government says their lawsuit should be thrown out. The two sides are set to clash this week in Montana.

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The Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., where arguments will be made.
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On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Par :Katie Rogers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.

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Vice President JD Vance hosting an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” at the White House on Monday.
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How an Emirati Royal Won the Battle for A.I. Chips

Par :David Yaffe-Bellany · Christina Shaman and June Kim
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates secured a tentative A.I. chip deal with the United States. His company also struck a $2 billion deal with President Trump’s crypto start-up. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times, walks us through both deals’ intersecting timelines.
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A Times Investigation Into Trump, UAE and 2 Giant Deals: 5 Takeaways

Par :Eric Lipton · David Yaffe-Bellany · Bradley Hope · Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur
A $2 billion crypto deal and an agreement to sell valuable chips to the United Arab Emirates were intertwined in ways that have not been previously reported.

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President Trump visiting the United Arab Emirates in May.
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A Times Investigation Into Trump, UAE and 2 Giant Deals: 5 Takeaways

Par :Eric Lipton · David Yaffe-Bellany · Bradley Hope · Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur
A $2 billion crypto deal and an agreement to sell valuable chips to the United Arab Emirates were intertwined in ways that have not been previously reported.

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President Trump visiting the United Arab Emirates in May.
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Trump’s D.C. Show of Force Diverts Agents and Prosecutors From Casework

Par :Devlin Barrett
While crime falls, the other investigative work of the F.B.I. is being delayed, frustrating law enforcement officials and leading some to quit.

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Federal law enforcement agents, with members of Washington’s police force, at a checkpoint last month. President Trump has ordered National Guard troops and hundreds of additional federal law enforcement officers to patrol the capital.
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U.S.-China Deal to Avert TikTok Ban May be Close, Trump Official Says

Par :David McCabe
Trump administration officials say they have the framework of a deal to save the popular video app. It had until Sept. 17 to be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who met with He Lifeng, China’s vice premier for economic policy, in Madrid on Monday, said that the two sides had a “framework for a TikTok deal.”
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G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms

Par :Maxine Joselow and Hiroko Tabuchi
The provision in the government funding bill could shield pesticide companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits.

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The E.P.A. currently does not classify glyphosate, the active ingredient in certain formulations of Roundup, as a carcinogen, even though the W.H.O. found that the herbicide was “probably carcinogenic” in 2015.
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ICE Changed How a Chicago Neighborhood Celebrates Mexican Independence Day

Par :Jazmine Ulloa and Jamie Kelter Davis
Pilsen, a part of the city long home to Chicagoans of Mexican heritage, has grown quieter since the Trump administration announced an operation against illegal immigration.

A parade in Pilsen last weekend celebrated Mexican heritage.
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