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Uncertainty Over Pope’s Health Fuels Familiar Debate Over Vatican’s Candor

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di: Elisabetta Povoledo
By announcing his lung condition himself, Leo has been more forthcoming than many popes. But mysteries remain, prompting scrutiny of papal statements for hidden meaning.

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Pope Leo XIV at a torchlight procession last month in Lourdes, France. Vatican experts wondered if he already knew of his cancer diagnosis during that visit.
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Ilhan Omar’s Sister’s Phone Was Seized Before Search of Lawmaker’s Home

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di: Ernesto Londoño · Alan Feuer and Hamed Aleaziz
A criminal investigation into the lawmaker’s immigration process advanced after federal investigators reviewed family text messages from a seized phone.

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A Homeland Security officer carries a box from the Washington residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar, during a search on Monday.
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School Shooting in Bend, Ore., Has Heroes and Pain, But Few Answers

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di: Anna Griffin · Aaron West · Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Chelsia Rose Marcius
The city of Bend, Ore., is praising those who worked to stop the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School. The authorities are searching for answers.

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A growing memorial outside Silver Rail Elementary School the morning after a gunman killed three children and a teacher in Bend, Ore.
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Cornell Board Presents United Front Amid Crisis Over Sexual Assault Allegations

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di: Sharon Otterman · Vimal Patel · Chelsia Rose Marcius and Benjamin Oreskes
While the powerful board appeared to back campus administration, some students protested against the backdrop of homecoming weekend.

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Inside the halls where Cornell University’s board of trustees gathered this week, there were no visible cracks in its unity.
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M.L.B. Playoff Ads With Sydney Sweeney and Megan Fox Draw Backlash

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di: Emmett Lindner
Commercials with Sydney Sweeney promoting a gambling platform and Megan Fox endorsing male enhancement have rankled fans, and even athletes. Who is in charge?

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A billboard ad in Times Square for the sports-betting site Novig featuring the actress Sydney Sweeney. She appeared in commercials aired during the Major League Baseball playoffs.
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How We Reported on the Cornell Case

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di: Patrick Healy
In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, we’re diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says we’re not tough enough on Trump.

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Students walk past the now shuttered Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.
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Teacher Killed in Oregon School Shooting Was Working Her ‘Dream Job,’ Family Says

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di: Jacey Fortin
Megan Lambert graduated from high school in the district where she taught. She died in a classroom with Rhoam Summer and two other children when a shooter attacked.

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Community members at Drake Park in Bend, Ore., on Friday, the day after a gunman killed three children and a teacher nearby at Silver Rail Elementary School.
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When a Social Media Mob Came for Cornell’s Jane Doe

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di: Debra Kamin · Amy Julia Harris · Ryan Mac · Emma Goldberg and Hurubie Meko
After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.

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A former Cornell student’s lawsuit accusing members of a fraternity of sexual assault stirred anger and debate at the university and on college campuses nationwide.
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Understanding a Home’s Fire Risk

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di: Rebecca Dzombak
The ratings on real estate sites that try to convey the risk of burning in a wildfire may overcomplicate or misrepresent the risk.

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A residential neighborhood on fire in Pacific Palisades, Calif., in 2025.
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What Measures Keep Students Safe? Prevention, Not Defenses, Experts Say

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di: Shaila Dewan and Dana Goldstein
The gunman who killed four in Bend, Ore., entered an elementary school by shooting through a locked door, raising questions about what more schools can do to protect children.

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Three children and a teacher were killed at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., by an armed attacker on Thursday.
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Russia Appears to Step Up Efforts to Influence U.S. Voters

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di: Julian E. Barnes · Dustin Volz and Steven Lee Myers
One campaign has created social media posts focusing on U.S. support for Israel to sow discord ahead of the midterm elections.

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American officials say they have identified similar influence campaigns by Russia and others in years past, all trying to create discord over contentious topics.
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Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party

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di: Sabrina Tavernise and Ruth Igielnik
One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was the swing of young voters, particularly men, away from Democrats to Donald Trump. Now they are swinging back.

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“I’m sure you know who Andrew Tate is,” said Suzanna Bridges, a conservative Catholic who sees misogyny laced into Trump world. “This administration is pushing for that kind of man right now — hyper, hypermasculine.”
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Japan’s Leader Says She Loses Hours to Makeup and Chores. Opinions Abound.

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di: Javier C. Hernández and Kiuko Notoya
Sanae Takaichi said she has a busier schedule than her male predecessors, a nod to the disproportionate share of household tasks in Japan that fall to women.

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Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her all-male team of aides has had trouble adapting to her schedule.
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The Rupturing Trump-Zelensky Relationship Stands to Hurt Ukraine and Its European Allies

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di: Kim Barker
Where the two presidents’ war of words will end is anybody’s guess. But if it continues, it could threaten the crucial operational help that Ukraine still gets from the United States.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in December.
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Handcuffs in Schools

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di: Sam Sifton
Let’s look at what happens when school police arrest children.

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In Corpus Christi, Texas.
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What We Know About the School Shooting in Bend, Ore.

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di: Francesca Regalado
A teenager opened fire at the Silver Rail Elementary School, killing three children and one teacher, before he was fatally shot by an armed bystander.

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A 16-year-old boy entered Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Thursday by shooting at locked doors with a long gun, the authorities said, before killing three children and a teacher.
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Avalanche of G.O.P. Cash Keeps the Party Competitive Despite Its Problems

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di: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
Republican Senate and House candidates are being out-raised by their Democratic rivals, but the party has received a huge boost from groups tied to Elon Musk and President Trump.

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President Trump’s super PAC and Elon Musk have both spent enormous amounts to support Republicans in the midterms.
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Fish, Oil and Corruption: 6 Takeaways From Alaska’s Senate Debate

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di: Kellen Browning
The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.

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Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, right, and Mary Peltola, the Democratic challenger, during the debate in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday night.
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Warsh Vows to Tame Inflation as A.I. Delivers ‘Shock’ to Economy

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di: Patricia Cohen and Colby Smith
The Federal Reserve chairman stuck to his pledge to avoid providing guidance about the path forward for interest rates, but did nothing to convey an urgency to raise them later this month.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh speaking at an event during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
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The Sexual Abuse Crisis in Paris’s Public Schools

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di: Ségolène Le Stradic
A surge of abuse accusations has led Parisian authorities to acknowledge a “collective failure” to prevent sexual offenders from working in schools.

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The entrance to St.-Dominique, a kindergarten in Paris where 16 current and former employees were arrested following accusations of child abuse.
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At High-Powered Dinner, Lots of Love for Tisch, Less for Mayor

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di: Maria Cramer
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch received a standing ovation at the Alfred E. Smith dinner and joked about calls for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fire her.

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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch was welcomed by Archbishop Ronald Hicks at the 81st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner.
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In Michigan Senate Race, Ocasio-Cortez Joins El-Sayed on Trail in Trump Country

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di: Tim Balk
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Michigan, campaigned with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday, including in areas won by President Trump.
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5 Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Maine

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di: Emily Davies
The race’s fourth and final debate centered around whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.

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Troy Jackson answering a question during a debate with Senator Susan Collins at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, on Thursday.
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Katie Zacharia Admits Failing Bar, but Defends Calling Herself a Lawyer

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di: Shawn McCreesh
In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.

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Katie Zacharia, the White House press secretary, aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. “I woke up at 3 in the morning on Tuesday to prepare with what I had,” she said of her first press briefing.
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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

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di: Anton Troianovski and Luke Broadwater
The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

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President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

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di: Devlin Barrett and Laurel Rosenhall
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.

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A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
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Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results

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di: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

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President Trump, who has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, has been relentless in his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of American voting.
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California’s Proposition 45 Brings the Sprawl Debate Back

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di: Conor Dougherty
Among the measures up for a vote in November is one that would amend the state’s landmark environmental law and make it easier to build large housing developments outside cities.

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The company that owns Tejon Ranch has spend two decades trying, and failing, to build developments there. Proposition 45 could speed the process up.
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Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery

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di: K. R. Callaway
A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.

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A picture released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute showing specialists working in a laboratory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in 2019.
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Choosin’ Texas

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di: Sam Sifton
We look at the costliest race in America.

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James Talarico and Ken Paxton
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Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms

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di: John Yoon
Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.

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Because of a software glitch, the data of people who requested voter registration when they applied for driver’s licenses was not recorded.
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Para ciertos estudiantes en Texas, una leve falta puede derivar en cargos penales

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di: Kristian Hernández · Asher Lehrer-Small · Clare Amari and Rosie Cima
Una investigación muestra cómo niños de entre 10 y 13 años son remitidos al sistema legal por exabruptos comunes de su edad, o infracciones como vapear, que no representan una amenaza grave real.

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Una niña de 12 años del distrito escolar de Galveston fue detenida tras comportarse de forma revoltosa y negarse a ir al vestíbulo del colegio.
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As Texas Schools Add Police Officers to Campuses, Some Students Are Facing Serious Charges

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di: Kristian Hernández · Asher Lehrer-Small · Clare Amari and Rosie Cima
More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.

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A 12-year-old in the Galveston school district was arrested after being disruptive and refusing to head to the school lobby.
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A Megachurch Pastor is Running for Senate. Will Democrats Vote for Him?

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di: Ruth Graham
As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Adam Hamilton speaks of his work leading the state’s largest church — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.

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Adam Hamilton, the Democrat running for Senate in Kansas, has a relatively high profile thanks to his long career as pastor of the state’s largest church.
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32 Children Killed After School Roof Collapses in Pakistan

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di: Salman Masood
The collapse, in Peshawar, also killed a teacher and injured dozens of people. A local official said the building appeared to be dilapidated.

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A rescue worker carried a child from a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, after the roof of the building collapsed.
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis

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di: Emmy Martin
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

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The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.
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Cornell’s President Grilled by Faculty Senate Over Handling of Crisis

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di: Mack Liederman · Zane Irwin and Sharon Otterman
Ahead of a vote on a resolution of no confidence in Michael I. Kotlikoff, some faculty members said they were not swayed by steps he announced on Tuesday, including banning fraternity parties.

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Faculty, students and staff members at Cornell University attended a meeting of the faculty senate on Wednesday to consider the role of the university president.
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The Crisis Playbook for Universities in Trouble

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di: Mark Arsenault and Vimal Patel
Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public relations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes making leadership changes.

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In comments this week, Cornell’s president, Michael I. Kotlikoff, acknowledged anger and “a loss of trust” in Cornell’s leadership.
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Surprise Democratic Donor Blitzes Senate Races in Republican-Leaning States With Ads

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di: Shane Goldmacher and Theodore Schleifer
Steve Pajcic, a lawyer and philanthropist in Florida, started a group that is airing ads in Kansas and South Carolina. Florida and Mississippi are next.

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The Democratic Senate candidates Adam Hamilton of Kansas, Scott Colom of Mississippi, Annie Andrews of South Carolina and Angie Nixon of Florida.
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The Plaza Hotel to Close for Yearslong Renovation in 2027

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di: Andy Newman
The famous Fifth Avenue hotel, which opened in 1907, requires a restoration of its exterior, its operators said. It was not clear if residents of the building’s condos would have to leave.

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The Plaza Hotel, a city landmark, is considered an important part of New York’s architectural heritage.
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Battle Over the Pierre Ends in Defeat for the Buyer Pushed by Lutnick

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di: Michael Rothfeld · Maggie Haberman and Maureen Farrell
Motasem Khashoggi, who hails from a prominent Saudi family, missed a Tuesday deadline to deliver a $100 million deposit to purchase the Manhattan landmark.

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A two-year battle for the future of the Pierre, a storied New York apartment building, appears to have ended with a whimper.
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Fact-Checking Senate Debates in Georgia, Maine and Michigan

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di: Linda Qiu
With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals’ records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.

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From left, Representative Mike Collins, Republican of Georgia; Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine; and Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan.
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U.S. Is Sending Hundreds of Troops to Latin America

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di: Eric Schmitt · Greg Jaffe and Annie Correal
The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.

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U.S. soldiers and Panamanian police officers took part in a jungle training exercise at Fort Sherman in Colón province, Panama, earlier this year.
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Five Who Lived Along Walking Trail Are Dead and the Police Hunt a Killer

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di: Bill Ruthhart and Ryan Patrick Hooper
Lansing’s police chief says the string of attacks along a greenway raises the possibility that a serial killer has been at work. A man is under arrest in one of the deaths.

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Police investigators hunted for evidence near the scene of a fatal stabbing in August.
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Social Security COLA for 2027 Will Be 3.6%

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di: Mark Miller
The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for next year will be the largest since 2023. Retirees will see the extra money in their benefit checks starting in January.

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A Social Security Administration office in Jamaica, Queens.
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How Top Trump Officials Stoked Fears of a Nuke That Could Fry the Power Grid

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di: William J. Broad
For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.

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The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of the city’s electrical systems. Experts linked the unanticipated damage to what they came to call the electromagnetic pulse.
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Burnham Pledges to Back Zelensky as Trump’s Ukraine Support Wavers

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di: Michael D. Shear and Lara Jakes
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met with Britain’s prime minister, has said Ukraine received no warning of Russian attacks, but President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine outside 10 Downing Street, in London, on Wednesday.
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‘Why Did They Kill Him?’ Mourning Victims of Houthi Attack on a Saudi Airport

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di: Vivian Nereim
The strike was the Iran-backed militia’s most lethal against Saudi Arabia, by far, during their long conflict.

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Mourners carrying the body of Mahmoud Barqawi, 33, at his funeral in Amman, Jordan, on Monday. He was killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday.
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A Trump Backlash Endangers Susan Collins in the Maine Senate Race

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di: Tim Balk
The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.

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Senator Susan Collins of Maine has cultivated a reputation as an independent-minded Republican who delivers for her state. As she seeks re-election, she faces a growing set of political challenges.
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He’s Played It Safe. But He Could Make California History as Governor.

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di: Laurel Rosenhall · Jennifer Medina and Orlando Mayorquín
Xavier Becerra is a heavy favorite to become California’s first Latino governor in the modern era, though he does not talk much about the milestone.

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Xavier Becerra attending a “No on Prop 39" event, in opposition to a voter identification ballot initiative, in Los Angeles this month.
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Pope Leo’s Cancer Surgery Draws Outpouring From World Leaders

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di: Ephrat Livni
The pontiff’s illness also prompted calls for people to seek medical treatment and early cancer screenings.

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Pope Leo XIV was welcomed by Daniele Franco, the president of Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, before an operation to remove a mass from his lung on Tuesday.
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Senators Urge Trump to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin

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di: Robert Jimison
A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.

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The letter, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, came just weeks after Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation intended to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.
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4 Takeaways From the Los Angeles Mayoral Debate

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di: Shawn Hubler
Mayor Karen Bass and her former ally, the City Council member Nithya Raman, attacked each other’s records on Tuesday night in the last televised debate before the election.

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Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, left, faced off with City Council member Nithya Raman, right, in a televised mayoral debate on Tuesday.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Rise and Fall as Trump’s Ambassador to Greece

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di: Elisabeth Bumiller
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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5 Takeaways From a Heated and Personal Maine Senate Debate

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di: Tim Balk
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.

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Troy Jackson, left, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine faced off on Tuesday in a debate that at times turned personal and tense.
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Leo XIV’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis Tests a Papacy Still Taking Shape

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di: Motoko Rich
For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.

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Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome ahead of his surgery on Tuesday. The cancer diagnosis changes the outlook for a pope whose relative youth suggested he might have decades to reign.
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F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office

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di: Emmy Martin
OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.

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The San Francisco offices of OpenAI, where a recording device was discovered during a sweep of a conference room, the company said.
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Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation

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di: Ernesto Londoño · Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett
After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.

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Representative Ilhan Omar’s immigration history has been investigated in prior years by federal authorities, but has not resulted in charges.
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Lawyer for Fed Governor Cook Denounces Trump’s New Investigation

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di: Colby Smith and Tony Romm
A lawyer for Lisa Cook raised “significant concerns” over the “objectivity and fitness of the committee” assembled by President Trump as a way to remove her as a governor at the Federal Reserve.

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Lisa D. Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, with her lawyer Abbe Lowell. In a letter to the White House Mr. Lowell said the governor would not be able to attend a hearing scheduled for Nov. 5.
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James Dolan, a Former Hochul Supporter, Goes All In on Her G.O.P. Rival

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di: Dana Rubinstein and Benjamin Oreskes
The Knicks owner is urging New York’s business elite to abandon Gov. Kathy Hochul, highlighting her support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mr. Dolan has spent millions to back her opponent, Bruce Blakeman.

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No New York businessman has been more bullish on Bruce Blakeman than James Dolan, center, despite recent surveys showing the Republican losing by anywhere from nine to 19 percentage points.
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‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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di: Elisabeth Bumiller
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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F.B.I. Disrupts Pyongyang Revenue Stream: North Koreans in U.S. Tech Jobs

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di: Dustin Volz
F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.

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North Korea has generated billions in cash in recent years, evading international sanctions, through remote I.T. worker schemes, U.S. officials say.
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Martin Shkreli Violated Lifetime Ban From Drug Industry, U.S. Says

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di: Ashley Southall
The attorneys general of New York and six other states joined the Federal Trade Commission in accusing the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive of repeatedly violating the ban.

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Martin Shkreli was convicted in 2022 of engaging in anticompetitive behavior when he significantly raised the price of the drug Daraprim.
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Cornell Bans Fraternity Parties and Adds Sexual Assault Investigators

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di: Sharon Otterman and Debra Kamin
The expansive changes to campus life, including working closely with the state police, come in the wake of the national uproar caused by allegations of a gang rape at a fraternity house.

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Posters left over from a rally over a student’s sexual assault allegations are displayed in the window of Rand Hall on Cornell University.
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Rising Interest Rates Bite Some Wall St. Banks

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di: Rob Copeland
JPMorgan released surprisingly spotty earnings results for the third quarter, while Goldman Sachs and Citi posted better-than-expected results, reflecting a choppy trading environment.

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JPMorgan earned $15.3 billion in profit, falling short of analysts’ expectations.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as Ambassador to Greece

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di: Tyler Pager
Ms. Guilfoyle was asked to quit by the White House after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle in Athens in December. On Tuesday, she wrote that she planned to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”
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War Collides With Saudi Ambition at a Gathering of Oil Powers

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di: Lisa Friedman
The tone of the WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh this week was defiant even as delegates were forced to redirect travel or address the audience from afar.

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A handout image of the WPC Energy Congress, which started on Sunday. Those attending were forced to reroute to other airports and even countries in the region.
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Cyberattack Hits Hundreds of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems in France

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di: Ségolène Le Stradic
The attack targeted a Danish software system in more than 400 supermarkets, forcing some shops to throw out frozen produce. The attackers have not been identified.

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Empty shelves at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, France, on Monday, following a cyberattack that caused refrigerators to defrost.
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Ukraine Says It Received No Intelligence About Strikes 2 Nights in a Row

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di: Constant Méheut and Carlotta Gall
Asked about apparent U.S. threats to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which can warn of Russian aerial attacks, President Trump said information continued to flow.

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A resident collecting belongings from an apartment building that was struck in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics

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di: Isabel Kershner
As Israelis prepare to vote for the first time since the Hamas-led assault, they remain divided over whether to hold Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for negligence or fault the “treason” of his generals.

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A roadside memorial for Liraz Assulin, who was killed by Hamas-led gunmen as she tried to escape the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023.
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America’s Favorite Fruit Is Being Bruised by the Iran War

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di: Ana Swanson
The journey of one banana from farm to store shows how the war’s economic effects have cascaded into some surprising industries.

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Transporting bananas to the United States has become much trickier since the war in Iran put pressure on global supply chains.
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Trump Says He Is ‘Looking at’ Firing Kimberly Guilfoyle

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di: Laura Chung
President Trump made the remark in response to a question about the U.S. ambassador to Greece, who faces accusations that she asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.

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President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One as he departs from on Oct. 12.
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I.M.F. Warns Mideast War Will Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries

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di: Patricia Cohen
Persistent conflicts, high energy costs and technological upheavals will slow global growth and raise prices, the organization forecast.

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The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, in Tyre, Lebanon in May. Global conflicts are deepening the divide between economic winners and losers, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.
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James Talarico Was Targeted by False Rumor He Was in Ohio

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di: Bayliss Wagner
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.

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James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, is trying to defeat Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general, in one of this year’s top races.
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After Russian Diesel Deal, Trump Faces New Crisis Over Ukraine

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di: Anton Troianovski · Jeanna Smialek · Andrew E. Kramer and Steven Erlanger
President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.

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Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv last month.
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A Trump Loyalist, a Turkish Investor and a Battle for Wealth and Influence

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di: Anatoly Kurmanaev and Tyler Pager
A Turkish businessman once allied with the Maduro regime has tied the knot with President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, at the same time he is seeking to retain a big contract in Venezuela.

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Turhan Mildon and Alina Habba married in September in New York.
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NATO Details Plan to Shield Ukraine’s European Allies From Russia

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di: Marc Santora and Steven Erlanger
With the Russians intensifying sabotage, arson and cyberattacks against European nations supporting Ukraine, NATO divulged a blueprint, in case of war, to deter the Kremlin.

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Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force, NATO’s top military commander, speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.
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