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A grand jury has decided not to indict a man who had been charged with murder in the shooting of a student at Kentucky State University this month, a local prosecutor said on Friday.

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At least one person was injured in a shooting at the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office in Wallace, Idaho, that prompted a response from multiple law enforcement agencies on Friday, according to the executive director of the Idaho Sheriff’s Association.

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A fire in November at a Hong Kong apartment complex killed 161 people and displaced thousands. Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.

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An online creator in Illinois who struck and killed a pedestrian with her car during a livestream she was hosting on TikTok was charged this week with two felonies, the police said.

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Annette Dionne, who shared in her siblings’ fame as one of the first quintuplets known to survive infancy, died on Wednesday at 91. She was the last surviving sister.

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Ryan Wedding rose to fame as a Canadian Olympic athlete. The authorities say he became one of the world’s biggest drug lords, who ordered an informant executed.

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Perry Bamonte, a guitarist and keyboard player in the Cure, has died. He was 65.

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Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.

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So much has happened since President Trump took office again that it can be hard to keep track of it all. New York Times reporters reflected on Trump’s most consequential actions in his first year back in the White House.

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An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I can’t be separated from my kids — not again.” This undocumented father lives in constant fear of ICE.

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Breaking News from @theathletic.com: Michigan is said to be hiring Kyle Whittingham as its football coach after abruptly firing Sherrone Moore weeks ago.

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U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria on Thursday hit an area populated overwhelmingly by Muslims, who bear the brunt of terrorist attacks there, analysts and groups that monitor conflict say, even as President Trump said the targets were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians.

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Michał Urbaniak, a Polish violinist and jazz fusion pioneer who in the 1970s became one of the first jazz musicians from his Eastern bloc country to gain an international following, eventually playing with luminaries like Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, died on Saturday. He was 82.

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Israel on Friday became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland, an autonomous region that broke away from Somalia decades ago. The moves by Israel and Somaliland drew swift condemnation from some of their neighbors.

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Only five Sears stores remain in the U.S., with the end likely near for what was once the mightiest American retailer. Here’s a look back at why the company’s last great hope was a promise that never materialized.

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New York City was bracing on Friday for its biggest snowfall in more than three years. The area in and around the city was expected to get 6 to 9 inches of snow over the weekend, with up to 10 inches predicted in some areas.

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"What makes Costco’s Champagne so great is that it isn’t made by Costco," our Wirecutter tester writes. "This Champagne is really, really good for the price."

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “As 2025 limps toward its end, there are reasons to be hopeful,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “That’s because of millions of people throughout the country who have refused to surrender to this administration’s bullying.”

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Earlier this year, we published an article on how women are increasingly seeking out testosterone to help with energy or their sex lives. We followed up with one woman who went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for her marriage.

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Investors in the A.I.-fueled stock market have largely shrugged off warnings about a bubble, pushing share prices to repeated new highs this year. But some say the debt market is telling a different story.

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What can litter tell us? We combed five distinct neighborhoods in Manhattan to gather litter and piece together the stories it tells about the city.

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President Trump exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An EPA official provided guidance to the company, according to emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times. It’s one of many efforts by the Trump administration to weaken or waive environmental protections.

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After Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, a 12-year-old girl who suffered from celiac disease spent months seeking food and care. “I needed to be a millionaire to keep her alive,” her father said.

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“Marty Supreme” features appearances from NBA All-Stars, a “Shark Tank” investor and a supermarket mogul. Here’s a guide to some of the film’s most interesting cameos, and how they came about.

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Daniel DiDonato, a college freshman who had been following a legal fight over redistricting in Alabama since he was 14, pulled an all-nighter to make a new legislative map for the state. Now it's likely to be used in next year’s election.

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This tiny caterpillar is the last known of its kind. Scientists hope to breed the critically endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot by finding and capturing another individual from the wild — if any are left.

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The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats. “I don’t think people that were born and raised in the cities can represent us to the same extent,” one farmer said.

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A non-Japanese-speaking visitor to Tokyo used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi classes and even a fire ritual. Here's how it went.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If, as the Trump administration has laid out in its new National Security Strategy, there is to be a renewed focus in the Western Hemisphere, then restoring democracy in Venezuela must be a top priority,” Jimmy Story, a retired U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, writes.

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At home and abroad, President Trump has driven change at warp speed, upending policy and challenging democratic norms. Here are some of the most consequential moments from his first year back in the White House.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's plans to make New York City more affordable will take time — and in some cases the cooperation of state legislators. Lina Khan, a leading progressive scholar and the former chair of the FTC, has ideas for making a swift impact.

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A 23-year-old CVS employee was fatally stabbed on Long Island on Christmas, the Suffolk County Police said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.

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Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound can have unexpected effects on intimacy. This is the story of how these drugs upended one couple’s marriage. Listen to "The Daily."

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Southern California will receive more rain on Friday after several days of downpours, adding to the risk of flooding before the weather improves, forecasters said.

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An attacker from the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed two people in a car ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel on Friday, the Israeli authorities said. A preliminary investigation indicated that the attack was terrorism, the Israeli police said.

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The Trump administration celebrated Christmas on Thursday by posting a series of religious messages from official government accounts, using language that drew criticism from those who pointed to America's separation of church and state.

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Breaking News: Najib Razak, the former leader of Malaysia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case related to the looting of a government fund.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Friday that he would meet soon with President Trump, as Ukraine and the U.S. try to keep momentum going in U.S.-led efforts to end the war with Russia.

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Megacities in southern India are attracting enormous investments to help build A.I. infrastructure to serve the world’s most data-hungry country.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com As Filippo Grandi prepares to step down after a decade as UN high commissioner for refugees, he sees “a crisis of global leadership, a failure of imagination and ambition, and a proliferation of populist rhetoric that is numbing us to the plight of others,” he writes.

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More patients went to emergency rooms in New York City complaining of flulike symptoms in the week ending Dec. 20 than during any other week in the past decade.

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At least five people were killed and 21 others injured in an explosion at a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, according to Syria’s state news agency. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. Here's what we know.

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A man has died from injuries he sustained more than a month ago, when a UPS cargo plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing three crew members on board and 12 people on the ground, officials said Thursday.

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In Opinion Rob Reiner “was hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of guy who would take over the room. He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment,” Martin Scorsese writes in reflection of his friendship with Reiner.

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The U.S. strikes against the Islamic State in Nigeria followed President Trump’s threat to take military action to protect Christians from attacks by Islamic militants. Trump did not specify which attacks he was referring to, nor did he cite evidence for the claim that Christians are being targeted.

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Breaking News: The U.S. struck the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria, President Trump announced. The strike comes weeks after Trump ordered the Defense Department to prepare to intervene to protect Christians from Islamic militants.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com What TikTok, YouTube and other new mediums have yet to demonstrate “is Hollywood’s special ability, the cultural power that has sustained it through so many crises: Hollywood is Hollywood because of its gift for mythmaking,” Peter Suderman writes in a guest essay.

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About 50 of Planned Parenthood’s nearly 600 clinics have shut down this year, largely because of Republican moves to cut the organization off from government money. As the closures mount, a different kind of organization is seeking to fill the void: anti-abortion pregnancy centers.

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Here are the best animated shows and movies of the year.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Thornton Wilder is best known for “Our Town,” Jeremy McCarter writes in a guest essay. But his neglected one-act play “The Long Christmas Dinner” holds particular insights for “this time of year, when days get short and tables get long.”

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For 11 months, Haitham Salem, an electrician from northern Gaza, languished in Israeli prisons and a detention facility without charge, enduring harsh conditions and, by his account, violent abuse. He was released as part of the cease-fire deal, but his suffering only intensified when he returned.

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The actor, host and drag king Murray Hill hosts “A Murray Little Christmas” each year. At this year’s Lincoln Center performance, he married Michelle Cathey-Casino.

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Robert Lindsey, a journalist whose award-winning nonfiction spy thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman” was adapted into a movie starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton, and who ghostwrote autobiographies for former President Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando, died this month. He was 90.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com After switching her phone to black and white, Julia Angwin writes, “an invisible cord had been severed. I would leave my phone in my room when I walked from my home office to the kitchen. I would forget to check it for hours instead of minutes.”

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As hurricane-force winds showered fire embers down on Altadena in January, it seemed almost impossible that much would survive. But while some of the towering deodar cedars lining Santa Rosa Avenue were singed by fire and damaged by wind, they survived. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

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Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse.

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Most teenagers know that baseless conspiracy theories, partisan propaganda and artificially generated deepfakes lurk on social media. At a San Francisco high school, students are learning how to spot them.

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New York City is expecting its biggest snowfall in more than three years during the next few days. The region could see accumulations of up to 5 to 7 inches from late Friday into Saturday.

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The U.S. military has dispatched a number of transport and cargo planes to the Caribbean this week, as President Trump continues to ramp up military pressure on President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, whom Trump has threatened with military action.

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Oil exports, Venezuela’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the U.S. took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.

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Our journalists are joining nearly 40 scientists on an expedition to Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers. Getting there will require taking a helicopter over icy seas. What do you want to know — about the trip, the glaciers, the research? Send your questions: trib.al/rdYRyO0

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For decades, Havaianas flip-flops have been a beloved global symbol of Brazilian culture, worn by millions of people each day. They are now ensnared in a political fight.

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Jimmy Kimmel appeared on British television screens on Christmas Day to deliver a so-called “alternative Christmas message,” in which he said tyranny was “booming” in the U.S.

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A record-setting holiday rainstorm disrupted much of California on Christmas, shutting down highways, major interchanges and airport runways as officials warned that driving to holiday celebrations on slick, muddy roads could be deadly.

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The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had received an application for seabed mining exploration in international waters, the first in its effort to encourage the controversial industry. Here's what to know.

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Five people, including tourists on a climbing trip, were killed when their helicopter crashed while descending Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzanian authorities said on Thursday.

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The Trump administration has sought to move away from Housing First, a once-bipartisan model for distributing homelessness aid that has guided federal work for a generation. Here is what the evidence says about its programs.

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“Psychologically, no one can withstand this anymore.” Citizens of Odesa, Ukraine, have been living under hellish conditions after two weeks of repeated Russian bombardment.

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As they try to repair their political brand before the midterm elections, Democrats are rushing to redefine themselves as Washington disrupters, eager to challenge a government that many Americans believe has failed to improve their lives.

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Will Zohran Mamdani be the 111th or the 112th mayor of New York? An arcane numbering system and the misplacement of an official record have caused confusion on where the latest mayor-elect falls in history.

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Lewis Berman, a veterinarian to the dogs, cats and other animals of celebrities including John F. Kennedy Jr. and Julie Andrews, died this month at 90.

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Pope Leo XIV used his first Christmas message as pontiff to call on world leaders to embrace peace talks and addressed the plights of refugees, the poor and exploited.

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Santa arrived by water skis, snorkel or a boat. There were celebrations jubilant and somber. See Christmas around the world in photos: nyti.ms/49bbh9g

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King Charles III used his annual Christmas message to make a plea for “compassion and reconciliation,” saying that in times of global uncertainty, people can find strength in diversity “to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.”

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Nvidia, the maker of A.I. chips and the world’s most valuable public company, agreed to license the technology of the chip start-up Groq and hire its top executives.

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Many thousands of Venezuelans have found themselves stranded abroad or alone at home this holiday, prevented from gathering with relatives after President Trump declared the airspace around Venezuela closed more than three weeks ago.

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The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Pope Leo XIV on Thursday used his first Christmas message as pontiff to call for “peace and consolation for the victims of all current wars in the world” as well as for those suffering from “injustice, political instability, religious persecution and terrorism.”

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An ICE officer shot an undocumented driver trying to evade arrest on Wednesday in a Baltimore suburb, ICE and local officials said, resulting in a crash that left the driver and a passenger hospitalized.

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Imani Dia Smith, a former Broadway child actress who appeared in “The Lion King,” died on Sunday after she was stabbed at a home in New Jersey, officials said.

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A plane from Mexico was on a medical mission on Monday when it crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas. Two men on the water that day helped save two lives.

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An annual Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled by its host after a board appointed by President Trump added his name to the Washington building's facade.

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Pope Leo XIV surprised the rain-soaked faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday night with an apology, delivered in both English and Italian, to those who were unable to get inside the basilica for the pontiff’s first Christmas Eve Mass.

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On Christmas Eve, one Powerball ticket in Arkansas won the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever. The winner can choose between the full $1.817 billion paid out over 30 years or a $834.9 million cash option, both before taxes.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “No postwar political movement has been more closely bound up in the fortunes of its founder than MAGA is,” writes Matthew Walther.

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In @nytopinion As “The Late Show” approaches its end in May, Stephen Colbert “has turned his show’s last hurrah into a torrid victory lap, and he’s done it by manifesting the show he’d always envisioned: a show about love and a show about loss,” Lisa Schwarzbaum writes.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The files have been released in a way that seems to be designed to maximize the arguing, give succor to conspiracy-mongers and minimize the illumination of what happened,” writes Molly Jong-Fast.

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As much as a big breakfast spread sounds great, no one wants to get up at the crack of dawn to cook a from-scratch feast on a holiday morning. Invest in your future happiness by prepping the festive first meal of the day in advance.

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Muthoni Nduthu, a nurse who was finishing up her final shift, was one of two killed by explosions at a nursing home in Bristol, Pennsylvania, that was plagued by poor ratings, citations and fines from the federal government.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Christianity has always been about far more than identity. It is universalist in its aspirations, if not always in practice,” E. J. Dionne Jr. writes.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com When having political discussions with extended family this holiday season, “the first commandment is: Don’t blow up. Don’t jump from the table and run for your room, hot tears splashing the floor,” Mark Edmundson writes.

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A prominent farmer in Southern California was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot his wife, who had filed for divorce and was living apart from him in Arizona, the authorities said.

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Breaking News: Honduras declared Nasry Asfura the presidential winner by a razor-thin margin in a race upended by President Trump.

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Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how some of Bashar al-Assad’s top spymasters and generals are plotting to undermine the fledgling government that ousted them — and perhaps take back a piece of the country. trib.al/Kv4IZmT

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Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship, but now the father and son have formed an unusual tag team in their pursuit of major media deals. They bought Paramount this summer, and now they are hunting Warner Bros. Discovery with a $108 billion hostile bid.

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Texas A&M University has declined to reinstate a faculty member who was fired after she was accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders, even after an appeals panel found that the dismissal was not justified.

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Recent U.S. actions against ships near Venezuela may embolden other countries to use similar tactics when it suits them, legal experts say. If such seizures and detentions become more common, that could hurt the shipping industry and international trade. nyti.ms/492VFGh

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The Justice Department said it found over a million more pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents, extending the time it will take for a full release. A law passed by Congress gave the department a deadline of last Friday to release the files. nyti.ms/49rG0QL

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