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The Parents Who Helped Shape Zohran Mamdani’s Politics

Zohran Mamdani’s parents, a filmmaker and a professor, gave him the foundation for his run for mayor of New York. But their own political views may open him up to attacks.

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Mira Nair, left, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, and Mahmood Mamdani, right, a Columbia University professor, are the parents of the front-runner in the Democratic primary for mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
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Fate of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Is a Mystery

U.S. intelligence agencies had long assessed that, faced with the possibility of an attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran would try to move its stockpile.

© Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press

Some of the uranium was believed to be held at the Natanz enrichment facility, seen here in 2007.
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75 Years After a Deadly Plane Crash, the Search for Its Wreckage Ends

In 2004, explorers began a search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing 58 people. They didn’t find it, but they revived the history of what once was the country’s deadliest aviation accident.

© Leo Kohn/Valerie van Heest, via Associated Press

This undated photo from the 1940s provided by the author and researcher Valerie van Heest shows the plane flown by Northwest Orient Airlines that, years later, crashed into Lake Michigan.
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