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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”

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A gunman shot 10 people, killing two of them, at Brown University on Saturday afternoon, local officials said. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

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Breaking News from @theathletic.com: Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first Indiana player to win college football’s most prestigious award.

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An American nuclear device disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains during a covert mission. After losing it 60 years ago, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that anything ever happened.

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Jeff Flake, Joe Manchin and Tina Smith all decided to leave the Senate during the Trump era. On “The Interview,” the current and former lawmakers open up about why they think the Senate is broken and what it would take to fix it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/m...

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The Trump administration must remove California National Guard troops from Los Angeles by Monday, a federal appellate court ruled. The decision upheld a lower court order that halted the mobilization that had roiled the nation’s second-largest city for six months.

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President Trump’s pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a new battle on Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “To really understand what is happening in the United States today, we must understand the ideology and thinkers behind the MAGA New Right,” Laura Field writes in a guest essay.

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What began in the fall as a trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has since grown into an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people, prompted more than 250 residents to quarantine and unsettled many more.

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Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday, officials said. No one was in custody, and a shelter-in-place order remained in effect for the campus. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

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Classic beef Wellington is a technical feat in which a tenderloin is topped with foie gras or mushroom duxelles, then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. This vegetarian version is less exacting yet just as impressive. nyti.ms/4q0v4is

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In Opinion Some female Republican leaders saw gains when the party went all in on Trump, Michelle Cottle says on this episode of “The Opinions.” “But now, with this most recent election with Trump just going all in on the misogyny and hyper-masculinity, it’s like they’ve lost even more ground.”

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Breaking News: Multiple people have been shot at Brown University, officials said. Follow live updates.

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An active shooter alert was issued at Brown University, according to a post on the university’s website.

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Russian drones and missiles pummeled Odesa, Ukraine, overnight on Friday into Saturday in one of the biggest attacks of the war on the southern port, causing major power outages that plunged parts of the city into darkness.

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The Thai government on Saturday disputed President Trump’s announcement that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to a cease-fire, as its prime minister pledged to continue military action and the standoff between the two countries intensified.

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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is treating his last weeks in office as something of a farewell tour, visiting foreign countries, defending his legacy and expressing his grievances. “My lack of success didn’t start because of the indictment,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...

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Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the music producer who turned Selena y Los Dinos, his small family band, into a Grammy Award-winning act, died on Saturday at age 86. He managed his daughter Selena’s career as she ascended to the peak of the Tejano music world, but he was a polarizing figure to some fans.

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After evaluating 92 shampoos, we lathered our way through 43 formulas to find six standouts, sorted by hair type.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The war in Gaza turned California school districts into battlegrounds over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Leighton Woodhouse writes in a guest essay. “What is being lost in the tumult is the basic purpose of education: teaching students to think for themselves.”

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Peter Greene, a character actor who made a career out of playing villains, including in “Pulp Fiction,” “The Mask” and dozens of other films and TV shows, has died. He was 60.

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A flight bound for Tokyo safely returned to Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday after an engine failure during takeoff, federal officials said.

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A woman faces felony charges after she was accused of spraying a food order she was delivering to an Indiana home for DoorDash with an unknown aerosol after which two people fell ill, officials said on Friday.

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The president of the University of Maryland, Darryll J. Pines, was cleared of plagiarism Friday after a yearlong review prompted by allegations that his published work had lifted significant portions of a 2002 scholarly paper.

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Breaking News: Two American soldiers and an American interpreter were killed in an attack in central Syria on Saturday, U.S. military officials said.

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Breaking News: Israel said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza, in what would be the highest-profile killing of a Hamas leader since the cease-fire began two months ago.

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The attorneys general of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its decision to impose a $100,000 fee on visas for skilled foreign workers.

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A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding funding from Planned Parenthood as mandated in the tax and domestic policy bill President Trump signed in July.

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A federal judge ordered the Justice Department on Friday to get rid of a critical trove of evidence it used in September to bring charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, saying that prosecutors had obtained the materials unlawfully.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “America was once the world’s industrial superpower. Now it accounts for just 17% of global manufacturing,” the New York Times editorial board writes. “China controls 28%, and its lead is growing.”

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A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a U.S. official said, a rare operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

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This quick skillet dinner combines crisp gnocchi and brawny sausage with sweet pops of peas and herbs. It requires no chopping or waiting for water to boil. nyti.ms/4pEfeu0

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You never think you’re going to lose your phone—until you do. Here are the steps you can take now to prevent a lost phone from ruining your life.

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New York City could see its first big snow of the season this weekend.

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Tokyo is all about contrasts: centuries-old shrines tucked beside glass towers and quiet gardens a few train stops from the neon storm of Shibuya. Here's a guide to your inaugural trip — and future visits — to the Japanese city.

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The most appreciated gifts aren’t the trendiest ones — they’re the ones that last forever. These are Wirecutter picks for buy-it-for-life gifts. nyti.ms/4oKYzEa

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Taylor Swift dropped the concert film “The Eras Tour: The Final Show” on Disney+ along with the first two episodes of a behind-the-scenes six-part documentary series, “The End of an Era.” Here are five key takeaways.

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California lawmakers are demanding more information on an early earthquake warning system managed by the U.S. Geological Survey after it issued a false alert last week that a magnitude-5.9 earthquake had struck near the California-Nevada border.

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Military checkpoints, rough seas: María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, made an escape to Oslo with the help of a U.S. firm.

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The FDA approved two new antibiotics for the treatment of gonorrhea, giving health care providers powerful new weapons against a sexually transmitted disease that has become increasingly hard to treat.

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From @theathletic.com: The Canucks are said to be trading the elite player Quinn Hughes to the Wild in one of the biggest trades in NHL history.

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Breaking News: SpaceX offered to buy shares from employees in a deal that would value it at around $800 billion as it prepares to go public.

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A large national trial of about 46,000 women, 40 to 74 years old, found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.

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Adm. Alvin Holsey, the military commander who initially oversaw the Pentagon’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific, retired on Friday, leaving several issues about the strikes unanswered.

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As our Food staff ventured across the U.S. for months to find the best restaurants of the year, we didn’t neglect sweet treats: Here are our favorite desserts of 2025.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.

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Can plants and lights help stop crime? In Philadelphia, that idea has been put to the test, with encouraging results. Both city-led and community-driven efforts to clean and maintain streets have been among many interventions credited for dramatic reductions in gun violence.

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Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J

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Four Canadian provinces are selling off the American liquor they pulled from shelves in protest over President Trump’s tariffs. Some bourbon drinkers are thrilled.

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In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

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The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to pull merchandise related to DEI from its gift shops. The Interior Department said the move is meant to ensure items “do not promote specific viewpoints.”

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Here's how to make an espresso martini at home: nyti.ms/4oSaOif

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Breaking News: The Trump administration is sharing all air travelers’ names with ICE officials to find people with deportation orders.

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In @nytopinion.bsky.social “The way to oppose Mr. Trump’s era of corrupt deal-making is to present the American people with a clear and principled alternative. Democrats should see the cautionary tale represented by today’s Republican Party in Congress,” J.P. Cooney and Molly Gaston write.

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The average American eats nearly 14 pounds of yogurt each year, and there is a head-spinning amount of it that can be found in the dairy aisle. To make sense of it all, we tasted 54 plain cow’s milk yogurts. Here are the best: nyti.ms/44eoMn3

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Breaking News: King Charles III said doctors plan to scale back his cancer treatments, a change the 77-year-old monarch called a blessing.

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block President Trump’s construction of a large new ballroom on White House grounds, arguing that he violated at least four laws in bypassing any review process.

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Larry Ellison is backstopping Paramount’s bid for Warner Brothers, but Warner Brothers is concerned that the billionaire has not provided a personal guarantee to pay.

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Matt Dinniman released “Dungeon Crawler Carl,” his book series about an Everyman who survives an alien invasion only to find he’s become a contestant on the deadly set of the galaxy’s most popular reality TV show, for free. Readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.

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Fans of garlic noodles and soy sauce noodles rejoice: Here is a weeknight-friendly noodle dish for your repertoire. It is one of our most popular recipes of 2025. nyti.ms/3KL4uuR

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House Democrats on Friday released new images from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that highlight his ties to celebrities, financiers and other powerful men, including President Trump and Bill Clinton. nyti.ms/4a9zYFn

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Our civil war right now — our third civil war, I believe — is about identity, belonging and a place called home. I think it’s going on all over the world,” Thomas Friedman tells David Brooks on this episode of “The Opinions.”

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The author Joanna Trollope died at her home in England, on Thursday at 82. Trollope wrote popular British novels that grappled with adultery and the complexities of family life.

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Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oil tycoon, has played a central role in reshaping energy policy by allying himself with President Trump. Together, they have remade federal policy to benefit oil and gas companies, and put off the transition to greener alternatives like solar power and batteries.

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This vibrant vegetarian dish combines savory broiled halloumi, juicy cherry tomatoes and creamy white beans for a satisfying one-pan meal. It's one of our most popular recipes of 2025. nyti.ms/3Y1J0wZ

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David Welles, a retired lawyer, had been struggling with his iPad for hours when he tried to call tech support. But instead of dialing Microsoft to help him connect his email, the phone number he found put him in touch with cybercriminals who made a wire transfer of $85,000 from his bank account.

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Decades of research shows that low-level troops involved in lethal strikes like the Trump administration's in the Caribbean may suffer deep psychological harm. The Department of Veterans Affairs has even given the problem a name: “Moral injury.”

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A reader asked the Ethicist: A friend's crisis turned our bond toxic and one-sided. I feel confident that I was a good friend, but their rage and recent blame for self-harm forced my hand. At what point is stepping back self-protection rather than abandonment? nyti.ms/3KXPNof

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An official on Jeju Island in South Korea is accused of pocketing the cash from the sale of government-issued trash bags that cost as little as 7 cents each. He accumulated more than $400,000 over about four years, prosecutors said.

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A thoughtful gift needn’t be expensive to be perfect. A practical kitchen tool, a new charging adapter, or even a really good pair of socks can delight at a budget price. Here are the best gifts for $25 or less. nyti.ms/3KP1cqr

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Millions of Americans turn to cannabis, which is now legal in 40 states, to treat their pain, anxiety and sleep problems. But the evidence of its benefits for medical use is often weak or inconclusive, according to a new review of 15 years of research.

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President Trump has overseen an aggressive foreign policy, including harsh words about Europe and a lethal military campaign in the Caribbean. On “The Daily,” our reporter unpacks the White House’s new national security strategy, which lays bare Trump's foreign policy goals.

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More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

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The Geminids meteor shower has been active since Dec. 4, and reaches its peak Saturday night into Sunday morning. Here's how to watch it.

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For the past three decades, as China’s economy has developed into a global powerhouse, investment has grown reliably each year. That is about to change.

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Austrian schoolgirls under 14 will be barred from wearing head scarves in class starting next year, after the Austrian Parliament passed a law about the practice this week.

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In U.S. high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to a reader survey by The New York Times.

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For China, President Trump’s recent moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a string of strategic gains.

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President Trump is expected to speak with Thailand’s prime minister on Friday, as he seeks burnish his self-styled image as a peacemaker by intervening in a border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia that entered its fifth day.

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development said Thursday that it was opening an investigation into housing policies in Boston, scrutinizing whether the city discriminated against white people.

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Pushed again onto the U.S. diplomatic merry-go-round, Ukrainians are focused less on the number of points in a peace plan and more on how to live through regularly scheduled blackouts as Russian forces bombard the electrical system.

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Listen to “The Headlines,” which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes.

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Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

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President Trump signed an executive order that aims to neuter state laws that limit the A.I. industry, granting broad authority to the attorney general to sue states that do not support the "United States’ global A.I. dominance." nyti.ms/44oIXPn

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Reddit said Friday that it had filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to block the country’s new law banning social media accounts for children under 16, contending it infringes on children’s rights to political communication.

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

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A gas line explosion caused a horrific scene in a Bay Area city on Thursday, injuring at least six people and starting a major neighborhood fire. Two people remained unaccounted for, an official said.

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Rain tapered off across Washington and British Columbia on Thursday but forecasters said more rain is on the way, with another storm set to approach the region as early as Sunday night and last into early next week.

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A skydiver survived a harrowing jump after their parachute was caught on a plane wing, leaving them dangling in the air, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a report released Thursday.

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More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

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Austin Dirks was on a solo hike in Arches National Park when he got stuck in quicksand. Emergency responders rescued him after he sent an SOS message using a satellite device. nyti.ms/4pv6Htn

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