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The authorities in Malaysian Borneo have been trying to seed clouds to counteract the effects of smoke wafting in from neighboring Indonesia.

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President Trump is again talking up the possibility that the federal government will send Americans thousands of dollars in cash. There’s reason to think that Republicans in Congress, like they did with his two previous promises of quick cash, could shrug off the president’s suggestion.

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When Republican Senate candidates took the stage at President Trump’s convention on Wednesday, they steered clear of two big subjects: The war with Iran and tariffs.

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At least five people died and more than 80 were missing after a fire on a passenger ferry in the western Philippines on Wednesday. The June Aster was carrying 134 people, including 17 crew members, from Manila to Coron, an island in Palawan Province.

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At the Republican convention, Trump offered to give a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate in November. It was not clear how he would go about carrying out the measure, which would likely cost over $1 trillion. It is also certain to raise legal questions.

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The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of a deal it struck with the artificial intelligence chipmaker Groq last year, according to two people with knowledge of the inquiry.

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Officials in Denver advised residents earlier this week that if they saw a commercial jetliner flying above downtown, accompanied by fighter jets, not to worry: It was a tribute for people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. On Wednesday, United Airlines officials canceled the planned flyover.

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Breaking News: Helena Foulkes, a former CVS executive, won the Democratic nomination for governor of Rhode Island, defeating the incumbent, Dan McKee.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com We’re still living in the 1980s, “trapped in the invisible architecture built by a clutch of executives, politicians and conservative advocacy groups (that was later abetted by a generation of business-friendly Democrats),” Jonathan Kaufman writes.

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To find the best shampoo for different hair types, we evaluated 92 different shampoos. After three months and heaven knows how many gallons of water, we arrived at six standouts: nyti.ms/3SFs4gG

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Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat who has become alienated from his own party, appeared in a short video Wednesday on the opening night of President Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas. The surprise cameo was Fetterman’s latest outreach to Republicans.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There are simple steps that the biggest A.I. companies could take now to help avoid the most perilous future,” Steven Adler, who spent four years working on safety at OpenAI, writes in a guest essay.

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The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to no longer count immigrants without green cards in the 2030 census or ask about race and ethnicity, part of an overhaul that would redefine who counts as a U.S. resident in the eyes of the federal government.

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Two scientists have identified a cause of the sleep disorder narcolepsy, which affects an estimated one in every 2,000 people in the U.S., after their research in animals laid the groundwork.

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Twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over what they called the most severe cuts to protections for wildlife in the half-century since the passage of the Endangered Species Act.

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Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander, three prominent brothers convicted of running a decades-long sex-trafficking scheme in New York earlier this year, have enlisted the lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz in their apparent pursuit of a pardon from President Trump.

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Two brothers charged with bribing a former New York City buildings commissioner who was part of the Adams administration pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribery on Wednesday.

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A two-day convention engineered by President Trump to consolidate his Republican base and burnish his image heading into the November midterms is underway in Dallas. Follow live updates.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump “is menacing the midterms, with an executive order that would throw voting by mail into chaos if it went into effect,” the editorial board writes. “The sooner the court puts Mr. Trump’s ill-advised directive to rest, the better.”

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Now considered a classic Hawaiian dessert, guava cake was created at Dee Lite Bakery in Honolulu, where it became widely popular. nyti.ms/4xc4mqx

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President Trump provided a $45,000 “cash gift for the holidays” to three White House aides last year, including his executive assistant, Natalie Harp, and two other West Wing employees, according to financial disclosure forms. nyti.ms/4gL6Bfv

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A supermarket manager in Puebla, Mexico, is being celebrated as a local hero after he saved a toddler from being struck by a speeding car in a dramatic rescue caught on video.

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The typical winter peak of El Niño is months away. Yet parts of the Pacific Ocean are already warmer than normal, an ominous sign of what forecast models suggest could become a “super El Niño” or even a “Godzilla El Niño.” Here's what the data shows.

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Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The New York Times and The Flatwater Free Press found. nyti.ms/3VmHFCv

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Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The New York Times and The Flatwater Free Press found. nyti.ms/4h39V4B

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A first-of-its-kind drug for narcolepsy was approved by the FDA, offering a new treatment for people who live with the sleep disorder.

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Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPhone Duo, the company’s first device that opens and closes like a book, starting at $1,999. It's the most significant change in 19 years to the company’s most important product. nyti.ms/4gYwiYC

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Breaking News: Lucien Smith, a genre-blurring artist who found overnight fame after his early work fetched eye-popping prices when he was barely out of art school, has died. He was 37.

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Sara Bareilles has been haunted by the deaths of two friends, anxiety, struggles with infertility and this era’s social and political upheavals. She gives voice to all her sorrow in “Good Grief,” her first studio album in seven years. nyti.ms/3UJ32xN

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