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The labor union backing a proposal to place a one-time 5 percent tax on California billionaires says it has collected enough signatures to place the measure on the state’s November ballot. Opponents are backing competing measures to counter the tax.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington,” our columnist David French writes. “It’s in Kyiv, where a courageous leader and a courageous people have picked up the torch America has dropped.”

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These are the six simple steps to fall asleep that Wirecutter's sleep writer takes when nothing else works. nyti.ms/4vNaGVU

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The raids,” Megan Stack writes about ICE actions in a Chicago neighborhood, “triggered the same, distinctly American revulsion against overwhelming federal power and militarized abuse that threads through the Constitution.”

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Oil prices rose and stocks fell modestly on Sunday after President Trump called off a trip to Pakistan by two of his top negotiators for a new round of peace talks with Iran.

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The Senate is set to proceed with Kevin Warsh’s nomination to lead the Federal Reserve, after a pivotal Republican lawmaker, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said on Sunday that he was prepared to lift his blockade and lend his support toward confirmation.

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The authorities took into custody a California man in connection with the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. Here is what we know about the suspect.

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Federal authorities are investigating a note they said was written by the man being held in connection with the attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner that suggests he was angered by the actions of the Trump administration.

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Fujiyoshida, an idyllic town of about 46,000 in the foothills of Mount Fuji, is at the center of Japan’s fight against badly behaved tourists. This year, the town took drastic action: It canceled its marquee cherry blossom festival. And some residents are trying to take charge.

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A year ago, the kind of attention that the singer Zara Larsson had attracted early in her career — and which is bubbling around her again now — seemed like a distant dream. A PinkPantheress remix, a rainbow-streaked dolphin and an ability to roll with the punches brought her back. trib.al/6fzOGpy

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The episode in which a gunman sprinted through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton raised new questions about whether the Secret Service was sufficiently prepared to protect the president in an age of rising threats. But officials insisted the security measures had worked as intended.

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Secret Service agents climbed over tables. Guests dived to the floor and hid behind chairs. Here is a look inside the chaos at the White House correspondents’ dinner, based on reporting by New York Times journalists who were on the scene, surveillance footage and interviews with other witnesses.

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It was chaos inside the Washington Hilton ballroom, but not for one man who stayed in his chair, picking at a salad as people ducked for cover. Michael Glantz, a top agent at Creative Artists Agency and a guest at the White House correspondents’ dinner, said that he wanted to see what was happening.

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Social media was flooded with conspiracy theories after gunshots were reported from the White House correspondents’ dinner. In a now-common phenomenon after breaking news moments, prominent influencers jumped to fill the information vacuum with speculation.

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“Dwarkesh Podcast” averages two million listens per episode, and within the bubble of A.I. builders, backers and worriers, it is mandatory listening. Chief executives and influential A.I. researchers have sat with the 25-year-old host, Dwarkesh Patel, for interviews that often exceed two hours.

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A strong, 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Monday, according to the USGS.

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Hail the size of tennis balls and wind gusts up to 89 m.p.h. pounded North Texas late Saturday, killing at least two people and displacing dozens of others, according to local officials.

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After an incident involving an armed man at the White House correspondents’ dinner, President Trump and his allies argued for the need for a new White House ballroom. The coordinated effort to link security at the dinner to the project largely ignored the realities of the circumstances on Saturday.

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The Washington Hilton Hotel, where gunfire broke out Saturday night during a White House correspondents’ dinner attended by President Trump, was also the site of an attempted assassination that left President Ronald Reagan seriously wounded in 1981.

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For almost a decade, Wirecutter has tested dozens of fans. They consistently land on the same simple, powerful, and reliable fan that can move huge amounts of air without making too much noise. nyti.ms/4cYDOls

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The U.S. Mint is legally required to sell only domestically mined gold. But a New York Times investigation has found that the Mint buys gold that comes from foreign pawn shops and drug cartels, then claims it is American. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

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Our reporter Shawn McCreesh was at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday when a gunman breached security. He described the frantic scenes that unfolded. Follow live updates. trib.al/z3fTf3j

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President Trump said on Sunday that the gunman who stormed a security perimeter at the White House correspondents’ dinner had written a “manifesto,” without offering details. Follow live updates as the investigation unfolds.

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Strands is a word search with a unique twist. Can you uncover the theme? Play here: nyti.ms/3OZF0Mm

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Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. There are three new puzzles each day — Easy, Medium and Hard — so you can solve at your own speed, in any order you want. nyti.ms/3OKTL5u

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The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday that the review of evidence was still in its early stages after gunfire broke out at the White House correspondents’ dinner. He said investigators had gathered information from the suspect’s devices and had interviewed people who know him.

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Connections is a daily game about finding common threads between words. Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play now. nyti.ms/4sZcVTp

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Journalists and guests at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner took to social media to share the surreal and confusing scenes they witnessed after gunfire erupted on Saturday.

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The Trump administration has cast a sharp decrease in the number of Americans on food stamps as evidence of economic progress and increasing self-sufficiency. But legislation and regulatory changes over the past year have altered who is eligible, what recipients can buy and more.

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