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London’s Mayor Takes Aim at a Visiting Trump, Furthering Their Feud

As the U.S. president’s plane arrived in Britain, Sadiq Khan published an essay accusing Mr. Trump of promoting far-right ideology.

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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has clashed with President Trump in the past.
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Trump’s Birthday Call to Modi Raises Hopes in India for a Trade Deal

The call coincided with a visit by U.S. trade officials to the country, which just weeks ago was hit with a 50 percent tariff on all imports to the United States.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at the White House in February. Trade negotiations have continued since the spring despite geopolitical tensions.
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Nonpartisan Groups Struggle to Stay Neutral in California’s Redistricting Fight

Two nonprofits prided themselves on being neutral voices. Then they found that there seemed to be no middle ground in the nation’s redistricting war.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators placed a redistricting plan on the November ballot as a response to gerrymandering in Texas.
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Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?

British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.

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Facial recognition vans are being used by police across London.
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As Trump Arrives, Europe’s Right Claims Charlie Kirk as One of Their Own

After decades of claiming persecution, once marginalized parties latch on to the American activist’s assassination as proof of their victimization.

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Mourning Charlie Kirk outside the U.S. Embassy in Madrid last week.
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Netanyahu and an Israel Without Restraint

With the assault on Gaza City, Israel’s prime minister has piled defiance on defiance, as any check from the Trump administration falls away.

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Palestinians fleeing Gaza City on Tuesday.
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A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing

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

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.

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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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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

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.

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

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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How Nepal’s Government Went Up in Smoke

Arson attacks during protests in Nepal destroyed buildings, court files and even records of international agreements and state investments.

The prime minister’s office in the fire-damaged Singha Durbar in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’

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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San Francisco Politician Recalled Over the Great Highway’s Closure

Supervisor Joel Engardio was ousted by voters who were angry that he helped turn a thoroughfare into a park.

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Supervisor Joel Engardio of San Francisco had supported the closing of the Great Highway.
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Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Seeking to Silence Opponents on Left

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

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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Asylum Seeker Wins Bid to Delay Deportation Under U.K.-France Treaty

The case was the first challenge relating to the treaty, which aims to reduce small-boat crossings of the English Channel by migrants, to reach London’s High Court.

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Migrants trying to cross to Britain from northern France on a small boat last month. More than 30,000 people have made such crossings so far this year.
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House Passes D.C. Crime Bills as Trump Crackdown Continues

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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’

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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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For the First Time in 215 Years, a Woman Leads Mexico’s Cry of Independence

Claudia Sheinbaum, the country’s president, was the first woman to give the country’s annual Grito de Dolores, a tradition dating to a priest’s call to arms against Spain more than two centuries ago.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico became the first woman to lead the national cry of independence on Monday night, speaking from a National Palace balcony overlooking Mexico City’s main square.
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Russia Indoctrinates Children From Occupied Ukraine at 210 Sites, Study Says

War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.

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Russian troops on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, in 2022. A report found that children from occupied territories, including Mariupol and other cities in several regions, were subject to Russian military training and re-education.
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He Fled Putin’s War. The U.S. Deported Him to a Russian Jail.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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Republicans Honor Charlie Kirk at Vigil in the Capitol

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

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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