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Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Republican-Backed Voting Map in Missouri

Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Republican-Backed Voting Map in Missouri

A federal appeals court had sided with Republicans seeking to use redrawn congressional district boundaries to give thei...

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Bracing for Midterm Losses, Republicans in Congress Try a Pre-election Pivot

Bracing for Midterm Losses, Republicans in Congress Try a Pre-election Pivot

After nearly two years of allowing President Trump to set their agenda, G.O.P. senators are grasping for some quick acti...

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China’s Xi Snubs a Troubled U.N. for Trump, Drowning Out Its Big Week

China’s Xi Snubs a Troubled U.N. for Trump, Drowning Out Its Big Week

The U.S.-China summit offered a sharp contrast with the action at the faltering United Nations in a gridlocked New York....

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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to ...

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Charges of A.I. Writing in a Lauded Novel, and a Fight Over the Literary Future

Charges of A.I. Writing in a Lauded Novel, and a Fight Over the Literary Future

“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season....

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Dining With A.I. Moguls, Billionaires and Xi Jinping, Trump Went Off Script

Dining With A.I. Moguls, Billionaires and Xi Jinping, Trump Went Off Script

Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV....

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Here’s How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

Here’s How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deploy a system that merges personal data from across the governme...

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Brain Science Shows Why 18 Is Too Young for the Death Penalty

Brain Science Shows Why 18 Is Too Young for the Death Penalty

Our brains don’t finish developing until we’re well into our 20s. That matters when deciding who gets the death penalty....

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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7

Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7

The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, ne...

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‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot the Empire State Building Disaster

‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot the Empire State Building Disaster

When a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, a Times photographer leaned far out to get close up....

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Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms

Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy a...

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Fed Faces Prospect of Another Interest Rate Increase Just Before Midterm Elections

Fed Faces Prospect of Another Interest Rate Increase Just Before Midterm Elections

Financial markets are placing nearly 70 percent odds on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in late October....

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Michael Whatley, the Republican Senate Candidate in North Carolina, Sticks By Trump

Michael Whatley, the Republican Senate Candidate in North Carolina, Sticks By Trump

Republicans in Senate battlegrounds have started to break with the president. Not Michael Whatley of North Carolina, eve...

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CNN and CBS Resume White House Coverage After Standoff

CNN and CBS Resume White House Coverage After Standoff

Crews from CBS and CNN planned to cover two events on Friday with President Trump and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping....

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Airline Credit Cards Are Messing Up the Whole Industry

Airline Credit Cards Are Messing Up the Whole Industry

Airline loyalty programs are anticompetitive and hurting consumers....

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How the New York Times Stays Young After 175 Years

How the New York Times Stays Young After 175 Years

A conversation about how The Times stays up to speed with youth culture....

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Alaskans Dismayed, but Not Moved, by Peltola’s Treatment of Her Staff

Alaskans Dismayed, but Not Moved, by Peltola’s Treatment of Her Staff

Voters interviewed in Anchorage and Fairbanks on Thursday said news that Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate...

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China’s Truce With Trump Buys It Valuable Time

China’s Truce With Trump Buys It Valuable Time

Easing tensions with Washington gives Beijing room to tackle economic troubles at home while reducing its vulnerability ...

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Xi Jinping Didn’t Bring a CEO Entourage. What That Says About China-US Relations.

Xi Jinping Didn’t Bring a CEO Entourage. What That Says About China-US Relations.

American chief executives turned out in force to see Xi Jinping, while their Chinese counterparts were absent, a sign of...

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Pope Leo Signals Support for Journalists Targeted by Trump

Pope Leo Signals Support for Journalists Targeted by Trump

Asked about the Trump administration’s restrictions on journalists, Leo told reporters accompanying him on a flight to F...

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What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?

What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?

The Senate nominee talks about his view for the future of the Democratic Party....

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Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.

Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.

Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life....

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As Trump Hosts State Dinner Honoring Xi, See the Menu

As Trump Hosts State Dinner Honoring Xi, See the Menu

The White House said that the three-course menu, including sea bass and bok choy, featured American ingredients with a “...

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Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France

Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France

After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s origi...

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Cambridge Abandons Plans to Fully Investigate Its Hiring of Jason Arday

Cambridge Abandons Plans to Fully Investigate Its Hiring of Jason Arday

The professor became a flashpoint in debates over diversity efforts in higher education....

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Flyovers and Pandas Masked Divides in Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit

Flyovers and Pandas Masked Divides in Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit

President Trump pressed his personal brand of diplomacy as President Xi Jinping of China made his first trip to the Whit...

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Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii

Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii

Though likely to avoid a direct hit, parts of the state could receive nearly three feet of rain, forecasters warned....

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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases

Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department offic...

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Edward Lehner, Who Made Dog Owners Pick ‘It’ Up, Dies at 93

Edward Lehner, Who Made Dog Owners Pick ‘It’ Up, Dies at 93

Before the law passed, navigating New York was a harrowing exercise in dog-feces avoidance. As he put it, sometimes “you...

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‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.

‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was the country’s most visible Roman Catholic clergyman of the 20th century, is one step...

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Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War

Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War

Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived....

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Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi

Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi

Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook were among those invited to the event...

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About 100 Are Arrested in Protests Against Netanyahu

About 100 Are Arrested in Protests Against Netanyahu

Large groups gathered in Midtown Manhattan to demonstrate as the Israeli prime minister spoke to the General Assembly....

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Dale Caldwell, New Jersey’s Lt. Governor, Violated Workplace Policies, Report Finds

Dale Caldwell, New Jersey’s Lt. Governor, Violated Workplace Policies, Report Finds

Lawyers hired by Gov. Mikie Sherrill found Dale Caldwell sought promotion for his girlfriend and made a sexually charged...

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White House Restores Access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

White House Restores Access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

A judge ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on three media outlets, but it took several hours for them to get bac...

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries

A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own....

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Mamdani Accuses Netanyahu of Spreading ‘Baseless Lies’ After U.N. Speech

Mamdani Accuses Netanyahu of Spreading ‘Baseless Lies’ After U.N. Speech

The Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, of antisemitism. The mayor has b...

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In a New Anthropic Lab, A.I. Turns to Biology

In a New Anthropic Lab, A.I. Turns to Biology

Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown....

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Haiti Turns to Roger Stone To Lobby Trump Administration

Haiti Turns to Roger Stone To Lobby Trump Administration

The Haitian government hired Mr. Stone, a confidant of President Trump, weeks after hundreds of thousands of Haitians lo...

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