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A Louisiana man was arrested on Tuesday and accused of providing the firearm that a gunman used to kill eight children and critically wound two adults in Shreveport over the weekend.

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A Justice Department jet was part of an unusual FBI mission to Cuba on Monday to retrieve a 10-year-old American child. The FBI believed the child had been kidnapped by a transgender parent and her partner to potentially undergo gender transition surgery, according to federal court filings.

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Virginia’s approval of an aggressive gerrymander could give Democrats up to four additional House seats as they seek to win back Congress. Here are four takeaways from the election.

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An immigration officer in southwest Colorado who was caught on video grabbing a protester by the hair and hurling her down an embankment last October was charged with assault and criminal mischief on Tuesday, the local district attorney said. nyti.ms/4cYcXpF

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Virginians approved a new congressional map on Tuesday that would aggressively gerrymander the state in the Democrats’ favor. The party now holds six of the state’s 11 seats in the U.S. House, but the new map could allow the party to win 10 of them. nyti.ms/4cqs8ba

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It’s time for a third way that secures Lebanon, secures Israel and exposes Hezbollah for what it has become — a cat’s paw of Iran, ready to fight to the last Lebanese and last Israeli to serve its masters in Tehran,” our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Both health care and tech offer the same frustrating message: You’re stuck with us, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Aaron Zamost writes.

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Breaking News: Virginia voters approved a congressional map that could let Democrats flip up to four House seats, a boost to the party’s effort to win control of the chamber this fall. nyti.ms/4vZ20vM

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The biographical "Michael" is a film that "aims to deliver a version of Michael Jackson that, strangely enough, conforms to what the movie’s version of Joe Jackson wanted all along," Alissa Wilkinson writes in a review. nyti.ms/4mFJ292

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President Trump’s social media company, which has consistently lost money and struggled with a flagging share price, announced Tuesday that it was replacing Devin Nunes as its chief executive officer. nyti.ms/3QjNBKh

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Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco and vape products to anyone born in 2009 or after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday. nyti.ms/4toQF6d

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Breaking News: A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. nyti.ms/41K5qEP

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Israeli soldiers and settlers fired on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killing two, including a child, Palestinian witnesses and local authorities said. The Israeli military said soldiers had acted to disperse what it described as a violent confrontation in the area.

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A Washington State man pleaded guilty last week to murder in two 1980s cold case homicides after undercover investigators pretending to sell chewing gum obtained DNA that tied him to both crimes, according to court documents. nyti.ms/4vGWL3s

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An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing replete with errors created by artificial intelligence, including “hallucinations” that fabricated case citations. nyti.ms/3OtR0pf

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Russia is reshaping the future of warfare in real time, building artificial intelligence-enabled command and control and, it appears, deploying fully autonomous weapons without the ethical constraints that govern Western militaries,” Kateryna Bondar writes.

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Tucker Carlson said he will long be “tormented” by his role helping President Trump return to the White House. The conservative commentator has broken sharply with Trump over the war with Iran, and said he was part of the “reason this is happening right now,” referring to the conflict.

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Polls have closed in Virginia, where a referendum on whether Democrats can redraw the state’s congressional map to give the party up to four more House seats is on the ballot. Follow live results as the votes are counted here. nyti.ms/4u05k7V

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The Gates Foundation has authorized an outside review of its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, escalating the scrutiny on Bill Gates, the foundation’s co-founder, and his relationship with the convicted sex offender. nyti.ms/42rOFhH

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The Lyrids meteor shower is expected to reach peak viewing tonight for the northern hemisphere. Here’s how to watch. nyti.ms/4coI6T4

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Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. homeland security secretary, said on Tuesday that his department would run out of money to pay employees the first week of May if Congress failed to reach a deal to reopen the department. nyti.ms/3OQxJ1k

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX struck a deal with Cursor, an A.I. start-up, that could lead it to buy the company for $60 billion. nyti.ms/4u1Hqsz

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Election Day turnout today in Virginia is on track to be considerably lower than it was during the 2025 governor’s race, breaking with the high interest seen during the early voting period, in which nearly 1.4 million people cast ballots. nyti.ms/3Qq6paD

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Breaking News: The Justice Department charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, with financial crimes, accusing the organization of fraud. nyti.ms/4mLqZOL

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"This was amazing! So flavorful." This quick and buttery pasta, with bright lemon and briny capers, capitalizes on the flavors of an Italian-American classic. nyti.ms/4sL6kfc

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For decades, Carleton College in Minnesota has had a place where students and others, at nearly any hour, will find a pantry stocked with the ingredients for making chocolate-chip cookies. nyti.ms/4908lNk

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The NYPD said on Tuesday that it was launching a three-month review of its narcotics division after two of its detectives were recorded brutally beating a man in Brooklyn they had mistakenly arrested during a drug sweep last week.

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The man who killed one tourist at a Mexican pyramid and wounded several others had materials in his backpack tied to a 1999 U.S. attack, a possible reference to the Columbine High School massacre. nyti.ms/493o66e

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Breaking News: President Trump said he was extending the cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran indefinitely. It had been due to expire within hours.

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Two Israeli soldiers have been pulled from combat duty and given 30-day jail sentences after one photographed the other swinging what appeared to be a sledgehammer at the head of a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said on Tuesday.

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