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“Saturday Night Live,” hosted this weekend by Alexander Skarsgard and featuring the musical guest Cardi B, began with a sketch of the White House border czar Tom Homan reacquaint ICE officers with the purpose of their deployment. Here’s an episode recap.

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The only border crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt is reopening after nearly a year of closures, which will allow Palestinians to leave for medical care or return to homes and families separated during two years of war. Here is what to know. trib.al/dFgU38n

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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. trib.al/ewmdESp

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Strands is a word search with a unique twist. Can you uncover the theme? Play here: trib.al/nQ4WNYM

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Also known as Old Sober, this is a heartwarming and soul-restoring soup with roots in New Orleans. A special dish that makes you feel whole again, it is often sought out as a hangover cure. nyti.ms/4t6UWvp

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Another round of bitterly cold weather swept across North and South Carolina on Saturday, bringing several inches of snow, gusty winds and dangerous road conditions. trib.al/xxTWN8P

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In an upset that rattled Republicans, a Democrat in Texas decisively won a state legislative special election on Saturday in a district that President Trump carried by more than 17 percentage points just over a year ago.

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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. Even though the game is timed, there’s no way to lose. trib.al/VVIYDFz

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An extreme snow drought and unusually warm weather are keeping skiers off the mountains, snowmobilers off the trails and water out of the rivers across much of the West, even while record snowfall and single-digit temperatures pummel much of the U.S.

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Indonesia lifted a ban on Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, on Sunday, weeks after it announced it was blocking the tool because it was being used to generate sexualized images of real people.

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Some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people have attempted to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein. But document releases and other revelations over the last several months has underscored the depth, intensity and persistence of Epstein’s connections to the global elite.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new leader on Saturday to run New York City’s Department of Correction. Stanley Richards, who most recently served as the chief executive of a prisoner advocacy nonprofit, will be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the department.

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From @theathletic.com: Carlos Alcaraz beat Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final, becoming the youngest man to win all four Grand Slams.

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Here is the full list of nominees for the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.

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The Democratic National Committee is entering the 2026 midterm election year at a staggering financial disadvantage, trailing the Republican National Committee by nearly $100 million, according to new federal financial disclosures.

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Ten people were injured after 59 vehicles crashed Saturday on a California highway known for dangerous fog, according to the authorities.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something new,” David Brooks writes in his farewell column.

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"I do not recommend this recipe. Before I made it, I had not eaten half an entire batch of rice krispies treats by myself, and now I have. And honestly I will probably eat more." nyti.ms/4a0Hbpo

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“Melania,” the first lady’s documentary, is likely to result in opening-weekend ticket sales of roughly $8.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, box office analysts projected on Saturday. Amazon spent $75 million to buy distribution rights to the film and market its release.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “These days, the bloodshed is even more visible, revulsion is similarly growing — and the horrors we have witnessed should impel more of us to take a stand,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “The question is straightforward: Which America do we choose?”

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A Rhode Island man digging out his driveway this week discovered a large lizard thousands of miles from its natural habitat buried in nearly 20 inches of snow.

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ICE agents can stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Now, many Minnesotans are weighing their rights and their pride against their own safety. “I have a passport, but it’s paper, not a shield.”

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A deadly explosion that officials said had most likely been caused by a gas leak rocked an apartment building in Iran on Saturday, spreading panic in a country on edge about a potential outside attack. “People are stressed, anxious, powerless,” an engineer in Tehran wrote in a text message.

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“Like a lot of people, that was my first real exposure to it, and in hindsight, it was definitely more gambling than investing.” Some Gen Z-ers first entered the markets during the pandemic’s meme stock craze. They have since become more patient investors.

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Another round of bitterly cold weather was settling across North and South Carolina on Saturday, bringing several inches of snow, gusty winds and dangerous road conditions.

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This cotton sweater is a classic because it looks good on everyone and goes with nearly everything. It's on Wirecutter's guide to The Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Him. Here's the full list: nyti.ms/46708Wi

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At the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, all eyes will be on Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar’s latest release, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” is up for all of the top prizes. If it takes album of the year, it would be first to do so with vocals entirely in Spanish.

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Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the release of a 5-year-old boy and his father from immigration custody, condemning their removal from their Minneapolis neighborhood as unconstitutional. The detainment of the boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, by immigration officers had caused widespread outrage.

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In the two decades since TraxNYC arrived in Manhattan’s diamond district as a brash, tiny jewelry shop, it has shaken up the old-world marketplace with promotional stunts and beefs on social media to become one of the best-known jewelers on West 47th Street.

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Demond Wilson, the actor who starred as Lamont on the popular 1970s series “Sanford and Son,” died on Friday. He was 79.

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