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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs

The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

© Jovelle Tamayo for The New York Times

Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle.
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Iran Killed Thousands of Protesters. Here Are Five of Their Stories.

“He went out for freedom,” said the cousin of one of those who was killed when Iranian authorities mounted a deadly crackdown on protests across the country.

© via the Mostafavi family

Bijan Mostafavi and Zahra Bani-Amerian with their sons Danial and Davoud. Bijan, Zahra and Danial, pictured left in this photograph, were killed in the protests that have rocked Iran over the past month.
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Fed Meeting Comes at Pivotal Moment for Central Bank’s Independence

The Trump administration has unleashed a barrage of attacks on the Federal Reserve, including a criminal investigation into its chair, Jerome H. Powell.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, has spend much of the past month under siege from President Trump.
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What to Watch as the Federal Reserve Meets

The central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday after a series of reductions in the latter half of 2025. The big question is how long the pause will last.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Sundance Film Festival Says Goodbye to Park City, Utah

“It’s hard not to feel a disturbance in the force,” said Ethan Hawke, whose acting career took off after his early movies appeared at the Utah festival in the 1990s.

“What I will miss most is my youth,” the actor Ethan Hawke said about the Sundance Film Festival’s leaving Park City. “The streets are full of memories.”
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After Naval Drills With Iran, South Africa Faces New U.S. Attacks

The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.

© Esa Alexander/Reuters

An Iranian vessel leaving Simon’s Town Naval Base in South Africa on Jan. 13 during preparations for joint drills with members of the BRICS group of emerging economies, including China, Russia and Iran.
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How We Tracked Down Thousands of Police Misconduct Files

Freedom of Information requests led to the discovery of varied offenses by officers around New York State.

© Cindy Schultz for The New York Times

Starting in 1976, New York State, by law, kept most police personnel records secret. But when the law was repealed in 2020, many departments began making their records available.
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How the Online SAT May be Vulnerable to Cheating

Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms.

© Butch Dill/Associated Press

A student taking a practice SAT test.
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Loose Rules Let New York State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct

New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.

© Cindy Schultz for The New York Times

State Police troopers are often brought in to aid local law enforcement in serious cases. But disciplinary files revealed a lack of scrutiny when the department policed its own.
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Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats’ Efforts to Redraw Congressional Maps

Democratic leaders vowed to appeal the lower court ruling, which found that the legislative process behind the redistricting push was improper.

© Steve Helber/Associated Press

The Virginia General Assembly convened earlier this month for a new session that included a vote on redistricting and an address by the state’s new Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, who greeted legislators, below, as she entered the chamber.
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Colby Cosh: It’s up to Trump to untangle his Border Patrol mess

I was thinking it would be funny to write a column in deadpan tone praising Donald Trump for his superbly executed four-dimensional-chess plan to revive the popularity of the Second Amendment. Sadly, I don’t have either the guts or the heart to do it. But we Canadians have already witnessed a period in which Rosedale Liberals openly fantasize about forming their own Viet Cong to resist American military incursion. Now an American city has become the scene of a simmering low-level civil war, and a gun owner with a license to carry has been disarmed and then slain by federal agents in the street in front of an entire panopticon of cameras. Read More
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