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Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

The traditional ways of cultivating the peppers may not survive the challenges of climate change and soaring costs, so P...

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Malaysia Was Confident in Its Social Media Ban, but Kids Are Still on TikTok

Malaysia Was Confident in Its Social Media Ban, but Kids Are Still on TikTok

Officials told platforms to verify children’s ages using government-issued documents, like identity cards. But the compa...

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Trump Names Will Scharf as White House Counsel

Trump Names Will Scharf as White House Counsel

The president said Mr. Scharf, a deeply conservative lawyer and the current staff secretary, would replace David Warring...

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Oil Prices Climb and Stocks Dip on Stalemate in Iran War

Oil Prices Climb and Stocks Dip on Stalemate in Iran War

Hopes were dashed over the weekend for a breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz....

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Don Nelson, Hall of Fame N.B.A. Coach and Celtics Star, Dies at 86

Don Nelson, Hall of Fame N.B.A. Coach and Celtics Star, Dies at 86

One of the winningest coaches in league history, he led the Bucks, the Warriors and the Mavericks. He also had a brief s...

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Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is Freezing Her Eggs and Still Mulling a Presidential Run

Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is Freezing Her Eggs and Still Mulling a Presidential Run

In a TV interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from positions like “defund the police” and...

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2 Die After Boat Overturns in New York Harbor, Police Say

2 Die After Boat Overturns in New York Harbor, Police Say

Police divers found a 27-year-old woman and a 5-month-old baby in the water near Liberty Island. A man was arrested and ...

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Iran, Holding Firm to Hormuz, Pushes for Return to June MOU

Iran, Holding Firm to Hormuz, Pushes for Return to June MOU

The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s best leverage to get Washington to release Iran’s frozen assets, lift economic sanctions ...

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Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags

Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags

The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivation...

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Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Plan to Disarm Hamas

Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Plan to Disarm Hamas

President Trump’s Board of Peace announced an agreement last month that aimed at Hamas giving up its weapons alongside a...

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The Pope’s Favorite Team

The Pope’s Favorite Team

Are the Chicago White Sox blessed?...

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In Michigan, a Former Trump Critic Shifts Toward Election Skepticism

In Michigan, a Former Trump Critic Shifts Toward Election Skepticism

Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and t...

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Anthony Scaramucci, Podcast Star, Explains U.S. Politics to the World

Anthony Scaramucci, Podcast Star, Explains U.S. Politics to the World

He spent 11 days in the Trump White House nine years ago. Now he has a hit podcast, helping the British public, among ot...

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Moderate Democrat in Hawaii Defeats Progressive House Challenger

Moderate Democrat in Hawaii Defeats Progressive House Challenger

Representative Ed Case beat Jarrett Keohokalole, a younger progressive, in a race that centered on questions of generati...

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It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.

It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.

The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic site...

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How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion....

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Hunter Biden Says His Father’s Cancer Is Worsening

Hunter Biden Says His Father’s Cancer Is Worsening

In an interview with the BBC, Mr. Biden said that former President Joseph R. ⁠Biden Jr.’s prostate cancer had spread int...

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Max Miller, Republican Accused of Abuse, Won’t Drop Out, Spokeswoman Says

Max Miller, Republican Accused of Abuse, Won’t Drop Out, Spokeswoman Says

Mr. Miller, who has faced pressure from fellow Republicans to end his campaign and avoid endangering a solidly red seat ...

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Senate Bows to Reality, Leaving Trump’s Voting Bill Undone

Senate Bows to Reality, Leaving Trump’s Voting Bill Undone

The summer exit confirmed what had been apparent for weeks: that Republicans lacked the votes to pass the voting restric...

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New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pl...

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The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note.

The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note.

The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Ira...

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A Top Scholar’s Fall Shows That Universities Don’t Get It

A Top Scholar’s Fall Shows That Universities Don’t Get It

By protecting a star from plagiarism charges, a storied college undermined its values....

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Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz

Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz

The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the waterway will remain closed until the United States m...

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Democrats Vow to Unite Behind Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, but Tensions Remain

Democrats Vow to Unite Behind Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, but Tensions Remain

The party is racing to get behind Dr. Abdul El-Sayed after a poisonous Senate primary in Michigan, but some Democrats st...

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Yemen Teeters on Civil War as Regional Stability Hangs in the Balance

Yemen Teeters on Civil War as Regional Stability Hangs in the Balance

While the Middle East waits to hear whether a deal can be reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Yemeni government’...

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Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.

Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.

Where does the side of the angels really lie?...

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Amid Abuse Claims Against Max Miller, This Democrat Thinks He Can Win His Seat

Amid Abuse Claims Against Max Miller, This Democrat Thinks He Can Win His Seat

Brian Poindexter, an ironworker, is in the spotlight in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, where Mr. Miller faces multip...

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Billy Strings Escaped the Darkness. He’s Playing to Not Go Back.

Billy Strings Escaped the Darkness. He’s Playing to Not Go Back.

The genre-straddling musician could have been lost to addiction and trauma. Instead he’s filling arenas....

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Senate Passes Stopgap Bill to Avert Shutdown, Avoiding Skirmish Before Midterms

Senate Passes Stopgap Bill to Avert Shutdown, Avoiding Skirmish Before Midterms

The move came more than a month before the spending deadline, reflecting an eagerness in both parties to avoid a messy f...

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She Is Russia’s Richest Woman. Her Business Empire Is Going Up in Flames.

She Is Russia’s Richest Woman. Her Business Empire Is Going Up in Flames.

As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, fa...

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Can Netflix Save a Summer Slump With a Stunt on Sunset Boulevard?

Can Netflix Save a Summer Slump With a Stunt on Sunset Boulevard?

The streaming giant, still looking for this year’s blockbuster, paid an actor to spend three days inside a billboard in ...

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New York City Lets Haitian Workers Go After Loss of Protected Status

New York City Lets Haitian Workers Go After Loss of Protected Status

Officials said that dozens of Haitian workers for the city would lose their jobs, but warned that the number could easil...

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Canada Offers U.S. Concessions in Trade Talks but Demands a Comprehensive Deal

Canada Offers U.S. Concessions in Trade Talks but Demands a Comprehensive Deal

Prime Minister Mark Carney is attempting to prevent 50 percent tariffs against many Canadian goods scheduled for this mo...

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Reading Scores Drop for N.Y.C. Students Amid Revamp of Literacy Program

Reading Scores Drop for N.Y.C. Students Amid Revamp of Literacy Program

The declines nearly wiped out gains made in the state exams last year. New York City school leaders promised a review of...

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Max Miller Continues to Resist Pressure to Drop Out as Deadline Looms

Max Miller Continues to Resist Pressure to Drop Out as Deadline Looms

The Republican House member from Ohio was accused of holding a gun to his ex-wife’s head and fracturing the collarbone o...

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Students Skinned a Bear in a Dorm. Cornell Realized It Should Ban That.

Students Skinned a Bear in a Dorm. Cornell Realized It Should Ban That.

After two Cornell University students skinned a black bear in a communal kitchen last year to make a meal, the school ch...

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New Jersey Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Delaney Hall

New Jersey Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Delaney Hall

The state attorney general said that her office had issued subpoenas and would investigate whether employees at the migr...

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Schumer, Despite Party Tensions, Forges Ahead in Fight for Senate

Schumer, Despite Party Tensions, Forges Ahead in Fight for Senate

In a phone call this week, the Democratic leader told the new Michigan Senate nominee who had opposed him to just win, w...

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AMA: Peter Thiel, Chris Rufo and the D.S.A.

AMA: Peter Thiel, Chris Rufo and the D.S.A.

Ezra Klein answers listeners’ questions....

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Houthis Claim Attack on Yemeni Military Camp

Houthis Claim Attack on Yemeni Military Camp

Recent escalating tensions between the Iran-backed group and the Yemeni government have prompted fears that a truce in p...

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