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Weeks Before the Election, Susan Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny

Weeks Before the Election, Susan Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny

Scott Reed, a longtime Washington lobbyist who has a close relationship with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, leads a sup...

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Senate Defeats Bid to Direct Trump to End Iran War or Seek Approval

Senate Defeats Bid to Direct Trump to End Iran War or Seek Approval

The vote came as a growing number of Republicans has broken from President Trump on the conflict, reflecting voters’ con...

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Abbas Presses Case for Palestinian State in Taped General Assembly Address

Abbas Presses Case for Palestinian State in Taped General Assembly Address

The Palestinian leader renewed his call for a two-state solution on Thursday, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a gen...

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South Asians Face Surging Racism in America

South Asians Face Surging Racism in America

Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped sti...

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Nor’easter Could Bring Heavy Rain, Winds, and Flooding to East Coast

Nor’easter Could Bring Heavy Rain, Winds, and Flooding to East Coast

Rain, flooding and gusty winds are all in the forecast for the Northeast this weekend, but just how much is still a litt...

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Trump Struggles to Find Leverage With Xi Over Chinese Exports

Trump Struggles to Find Leverage With Xi Over Chinese Exports

The Trump administration, like its predecessors, has struggled to deal with China’s excess industrial capacity....

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Carney’s Big Challenge: Time

Carney’s Big Challenge: Time

As he tries to break Canada’s dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he knows Canadians will f...

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The ‘Monster’ Behind Russia’s Global Effort to Evade Western Sanctions

The ‘Monster’ Behind Russia’s Global Effort to Evade Western Sanctions

A Moscow firm uses shell companies and cryptocurrency to launder money, and a custom app to forge trade records, to help...

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San Francisco Is Making News on Many Fronts. It’s Also Ripe for Mocking.

San Francisco Is Making News on Many Fronts. It’s Also Ripe for Mocking.

Artificial intelligence companies are becoming pervasive in the city, and a humorist finds this is a good time for a lit...

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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.

Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.

What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — an...

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Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market

Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordab...

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Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World

Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World

Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further...

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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite de...

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Son of Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Critically Hurt in West Bank Attack, Officials Say

Son of Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Critically Hurt in West Bank Attack, Officials Say

Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier, sustained life-threatening injuries after a Palestinian man drove into a military check...

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White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling

White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling

A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets around 1 a.m. Thursday, but none we...

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Saudi Arabia Downs Houthi Missiles Targeting Kingdom, Officials Say

Saudi Arabia Downs Houthi Missiles Targeting Kingdom, Officials Say

The Iran-backed militia in Yemen fired six ballistic missiles at cities deep in Saudi Arabia, the authorities said, in w...

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Can Tech Companies Like Google Really Put Data Centers in Space?

Can Tech Companies Like Google Really Put Data Centers in Space?

Google is preparing to launch a satellite that can run its A.I. technologies from the heavens. But this is just a first ...

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When U.N. Protesters Denounce Netanyahu, Mamdani Won’t Be Among Them

When U.N. Protesters Denounce Netanyahu, Mamdani Won’t Be Among Them

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York continues to call the Israeli prime minister a war criminal. But Mr. Mamdani won’t join...

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Beleaguered at Home, a Bellicose Netanyahu Heads to the U.N.

Beleaguered at Home, a Bellicose Netanyahu Heads to the U.N.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will take to the world stage while fighting for his political future in a cr...

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‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump

‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump

The dissent reflects growing unease about the party’s prospects in November, as the G.O.P. struggles to overcome the pre...

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A Corruption Scandal Is Reshaping Brazil’s Presidential Election

A Corruption Scandal Is Reshaping Brazil’s Presidential Election

Explosive allegations are embroiling a Supreme Court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, and reshaping a presidential election...

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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher

Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying fo...

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The Big Show

The Big Show

We look at the United Nations General Assembly....

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Oil Prices Rise and Bond Markets Remain on Edge

Oil Prices Rise and Bond Markets Remain on Edge

The rise came a day after a sharp sell-off in government debt....

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A Powerful Nor’easter Is Taking Shape. How It Could Affect Your Forecast.

A Powerful Nor’easter Is Taking Shape. How It Could Affect Your Forecast.

The forecast for this weekend became a lot clearer on Thursday, but meteorologists warned that the storm’s exact path wa...

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How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?

How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?

And how we learn to trust elections again....

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U.S. and China Agree to Extend Trade Truce by 2 Months, Bessent Says

U.S. and China Agree to Extend Trade Truce by 2 Months, Bessent Says

The Treasury secretary, who is leading talks with China, said the countries had agreed to extend a trade truce until Jan...

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Hayden Panettiere Was Found Surrounded by Drugs, Report Details

Hayden Panettiere Was Found Surrounded by Drugs, Report Details

The actress had completed a stint in rehab before she died last month from an overdose, the coroner’s office said. Her d...

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Court Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico

Court Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico

Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press cr...

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Australia Investigates OpenAI Hack on Public Health Care Site

Australia Investigates OpenAI Hack on Public Health Care Site

Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on t...

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The U.S. and China Are Far Apart on A.I. Safety

The U.S. and China Are Far Apart on A.I. Safety

Beijing and Washington may use the same language of A.I. safety, but they are trying to protect very different things....

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From a Nepal in Pain, a Young Leader Makes a Case for Climate Reparations

From a Nepal in Pain, a Young Leader Makes a Case for Climate Reparations

Balendra Shah, 36, comes to the U.N. as a sun-glassed symbol of Gen Z political power. But concerns about his style are ...

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Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens

Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but ...

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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to...

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Australia Says OpenAI ‘Infiltrated’ Public Health Care Portal

Australia Says OpenAI ‘Infiltrated’ Public Health Care Portal

Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on t...

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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea....

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Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans

Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans

Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican sena...

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Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs

Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs

Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congr...

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Iowa Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The Des Moines Register

Iowa Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The Des Moines Register

The suit challenged a poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 race. A judge warned ...

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