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As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped

Housing affordability and quality-of-life concerns are pushing longtime Black New Yorkers out of the city, underscoring Democrats’ challenges with their base ahead of the mayoral election.

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A Democratic mayoral forum at St. Paul Community Baptist Church in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. The rising costs of housing are fueling some voters’ discontent with Democrats they have long supported.
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Supreme Court to Hear Rastafarian Prisoner’s Suit Over Shaved Dreadlocks

Damon Landor, whose faith requires him to let his hair grow long, said guards threw a court ruling in the trash before holding him down and shaving his head to the scalp.

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The question the justices agreed to decide is whether a 2000 religious freedom law allows suits against prison officials for money.
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Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.

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The Vera Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile, last month.
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U.K. to Ban Palestine Action Group as Terrorist Organization

The British government announced plans to proscribe the group, Palestine Action, after members broke into a military air base.

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A protest in support of the activist group Palestine Action in London on Monday. The government said it would formally submit a ban to Parliament next week.
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Were the U.S.A.I.D. Cuts ‘Efficient?’

When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker, a New York Times reporter and graphics editor who has been tracking the foreign aid cuts and restorations since they began in February, shares what she’s learned through her reporting.
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Quién es Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, que presidirá la Suprema Corte de México

Hugo Aguilar Ortiz se ha convertido en una de las figuras indígenas más visibles de México y en un símbolo de la reestructuración del poder judicial impulsada por el partido gobernante en el país.

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Hugo Aguilar Ortiz es el recién elegido ministro presidente de la Suprema Corte de México.
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Yvette Cooper vows to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws

Home secretary to ignore warning from group’s lawyers that doing so would be ‘unlawful, dangerous and ill thought out’

The home secretary has said she will ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, ignoring a warning from the group’s solicitors that the proposal was “unlawful, dangerous and ill thought out”.

In a statement to parliament on Monday, three days after activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, Yvette Cooper said a draft proscription order would be laid in parliament on 30 June. If passed, it would make it illegal to be a member of, or invite support for, Palestine Action.

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© Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

© Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

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