Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department

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13 mars 2025 à 14:32

The Trump administration cut about half the work force of the agency, saying it would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the move “reckless and illegal.”

The Department of Education has been a longtime target of President Trump.

Trump’s Tesla Display at the White House Revives Memories of Musk in Beijing

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Par :Mara Hvistendahl

13 mars 2025 à 13:53

When President Trump hosted Elon Musk and his electric vehicles this week, it recalled a visit years earlier to the Communist Party’s leadership compound.

Tesla vehicles parked at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing in 2019.

Pete Buttigieg, a Possible 2028 Contender, Won’t Run for Senate in Michigan

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Par :Katie Glueck and Reid J. Epstein

13 mars 2025 à 13:38

The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year’s marquee contest.

Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, earlier ruled out a run for Michigan governor.

How Trump Is Helping Liberals Abroad

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Par :Lauren Jackson

13 mars 2025 à 11:54

Voters are rallying behind some leaders who oppose President Trump’s tariffs, threats and insults. There’s a theory that explains why.

Mark Carney, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director

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Par :Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

13 mars 2025 à 14:41

Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.

Dr. Dave Weldon was a Republican representative from Florida from 1995 to 2009. He is best known for a law that bars health agencies from discriminating against hospitals or health insurance plans that choose not to provide or pay for abortions.

How DOGE Hides Its Work, and Trump Targets Climate Rules

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Par :Tracy Mumford · Will Jarvis · Ian Stewart · Jessica Metzger · David Gelles and David A. Fahrenthold

13 mars 2025 à 11:09

Plus, an explosive new Facebook memoir.

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money.

Syrians Want to Go Home, but Many No Longer Have One to Return To

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Par :Raja Abdulrahim and Laura Boushnak

13 mars 2025 à 10:43

Syria’s interim president has said that millions would return after President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, but many houses and other buildings were destroyed in 13 years of civil war.

Stock Market Remains Uncertain Amid Trump’s Whipsawing Tariffs and Budget Cuts

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Par :Joe Rennison

13 mars 2025 à 10:04

The administration’s whipsawing moves are leaving investors guessing. The risk is that this uncertainty comes at a real cost to the economy.

Investors have been taking defensive positions as they wait to see how President Trump’s economic actions play out.

Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division

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Par :Michael C. Bender and Rachel Nostrant

13 mars 2025 à 10:04

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

Demonstrators in Washington on Tuesday protesting cuts to the Education Department.

As Markets Whipsaw, Conservative Media Shrugs

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Par :Ken Bensinger

13 mars 2025 à 10:04

Many conservative websites have either ignored the recent stock declines or framed them in a positive way.

As President Trump’s unpredictable and halting tariff policies rattled investors this week, many of his most loyal supporters in the media chose to barely mention the news.

Trump’s Travel Ban Threatens Afghan Allies

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Par :Miriam Jordan

13 mars 2025 à 10:03

The nonprofit No One Left Behind has raised millions of dollars for flights and other assistance to prevent Afghans from being stranded abroad and face retribution from the Taliban.

“When Mr. Trump canceled flights, we didn’t have money to book our own flights to America,” said Aman Jafari, who interpreted for U.S. Navy Seals.

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find

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Par :David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine

13 mars 2025 à 10:03

Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

Elon Musk’s group continues to publish incorrect details to its website.

In a Europe Adrift, Macron Seizes the Moment

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Par :Catherine Porter

13 mars 2025 à 10:02

The French president’s prescriptions for “strategic autonomy” and a European force for Ukraine are suddenly timely in a world with a less dependable America.

President Emmanuel Macron at the U.S. Capitol last month. Macron’s call for an autonomy from the United States comes as President Trump threatens to turn his back on NATO.

How to Watch the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse

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Par :Katrina Miller

13 mars 2025 à 10:02

Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon.

A lunar eclipse in Tinum, Mexico, in 2022.

Paris Fashion Week Street Style: See All the Fashion and Looks

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Par :Simbarashe Cha

13 mars 2025 à 10:02

Rock stars and other performers figured prominently in the crowds and the clothes at Paris Fashion Week.

Outfitted in an ornate ball gown, Chappell Roan telegraphed Midwest princess with a dash of Elizabethan royalty outside the Valentino show.

John Mulaney Says His New Show Is Netflix’s Mistake

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Par :Trish Bendix

13 mars 2025 à 08:59

The comedian said Netflix “picked up this show by accident. They thought that it was a true-crime documentary because I look like a disappeared boy.”

After Pandemic Exodus, New York City’s Population Is Growing Again

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Par :Winnie Hu and Alex Lemonides

13 mars 2025 à 12:57

Fewer people leaving the city and more foreign newcomers have helped erase pandemic losses, new census data shows.

New York’s population has started to rebound after a steep drop, but has yet to reach its early-2020 peak.

Selma Miriam, Founder of the Feminist Restaurant Bloodroot, Dies at 89

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Par :Penelope Green

12 mars 2025 à 23:56

She and Noel Furie had just come out as lesbians when they opened an unusual gathering place for women in Connecticut. Nearly half a century later, it is still thriving.

Selma Miriam at her restaurant, Bloodroot, in 2017. An avid gardener, she named the restaurant for a native plant that begins flowering in early spring, spreading through a root system that grows underground.

D.C. Is Becoming Another Hollowed-Out Company Town

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Par :Alec MacGillis

13 mars 2025 à 10:02

The Government tried to save Detroit. Now it’s letting Washington wither.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Pushes Its Way Into India

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Par :Alex Travelli

13 mars 2025 à 09:54

By signing deals with India’s two biggest telecom players, the tech tycoon and Trump adviser has improved his odds of breaking into an enormous market.

Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellites and antenna systems can beam internet services to remote areas at broadband speeds.

Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.

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Par :Yan Zhuang

13 mars 2025 à 04:23

Some airlines in Asia are tightening restrictions. You may have to repack or turn off your batteries before boarding flights with certain carriers.

Airlines in South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have tightened restrictions on portable batteries on flights.

Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump

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Par :David Gibson

13 mars 2025 à 06:00

The pope has emerged as an increasingly lonely moral voice against perilous global trends like nationalism and populism.

Trump’s Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Economic Downturn to Restore Manufacturing

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Par :David E. Sanger

13 mars 2025 à 05:01

The president offers many reasons for imposing tariffs, including revenue, leverage over competitors and job creation. But history suggests a more complex history.

President Trump has acknowledged in recent days that the United States may be headed into a recession, even as he doubles down on imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union.

Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.

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Par :Jeanna Smialek

13 mars 2025 à 05:01

Europe had been banking on a United States that wanted to make a deal on tariffs and trade. With little progress in that direction, it’s reluctantly starting to hit back.

President Trump at a business round table in Washington, this week. After American tariffs on steel and aluminum kicked in on Wednesday, Europe announced a sweeping package of retaliatory tariffs.

‘Let’s Not Talk About It’: 5 Years Later, China’s Covid Shadow Lingers

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Par :Vivian Wang

13 mars 2025 à 05:01

People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity.

The mostly shuttered neighborhood of Menghua Jie, also called Dream Flower Street, in Shanghai on Sunday.

Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics

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Par :Ivan Nechepurenko

13 mars 2025 à 05:01

Georgia’s government sparked an uproar by announcing that a port project on the Black Sea will be awarded to a company from China after canceling a contract with a consortium that included Western firms.

The construction site of Georgia’s first deep-sea port on the Black Sea, in Anaklia, in January.

China Cools on Musk: ‘Two Cars for the Price of One Tesla’

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Par :Alexandra Stevenson

13 mars 2025 à 05:00

Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, is fast losing out to Chinese electric carmakers in Tesla’s second-most-important market.

A Xiaomi SU7 ultra electric car. Chinese drivers that once flocked to Tesla are turning more and more to local brands that offer more efficient cars with better technology, sometimes at half the price.

Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.

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Par :Yan Zhuang

13 mars 2025 à 04:23

Some airlines in Asia are tightening restrictions. You may have to repack or turn off your batteries before boarding flights with certain carriers.

Government Shutdown Looms With Senate Democrats Opposing 6-Month Funding Bill

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Par :Carl Hulse

12 mars 2025 à 23:52

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a Friday night deadline. There is still time for a reversal.

Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, with Senator Patty Murray. The standoff puts Senate Democrats at risk of being blamed for any shutdown.

Former Texas Megachurch Pastor Is Indicted on Child Sex Abuse Charges

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Par :Hank Sanders

13 mars 2025 à 03:37

Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.

Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch, was indicted on child sex abuse charges on Wednesday.

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir

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Par :Mike Isaac

13 mars 2025 à 02:37

An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.

Meta executives have called claims in a newly released book by Sarah Wynn-Williams false or wildly exaggerated.

Trump Administration Opens Investigation Into Shelters in New York

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Par :Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Chelsia Rose Marcius

13 mars 2025 à 02:26

Prosecutors asked for a list of names of “aliens” living at a Manhattan hotel. The city houses about 43,000 migrants in shelters, including dozens of converted hotels.

Federal prosecutors sent a subpoena to the Hotel Chandler on East 31st Street, which does not house migrants.

Inside the Former ‘Underworld’ Where Ai Weiwei Makes Art

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Par :Zoey Poll

11 mars 2025 à 01:43

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine

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Par :Paul Sonne

13 mars 2025 à 00:17

The trip comes as President Trump looks to secure the Russian leader’s support for a 30-day cease-fire.

An image taken from a video released by the Kremlin purported to show President Vladimir V. Putin, right, and Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov in Kursk, Russia, on Wednesday.

Why Trump’s Tesla Showcase Mattered to Elon Musk

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Par :Jess Bidgood

13 mars 2025 à 00:12

A lot has changed since former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. snubbed Elon Musk at an event in 2021.

The Killing of an Infowars Reporter Was Likely a Random Attack, Police Say

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Par :Edgar Sandoval

13 mars 2025 à 00:08

But that has not stopped Infowars’ founder, Alex Jones, from spreading misinformation.

When asked about the conspiracy theories, Jason Jones, the Police Department’s lead homicide investigator on the case replied, “We will follow the leads that develop in this case.”

E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose

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Par :Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi

13 mars 2025 à 05:48

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, at his confirmation hearing in January.

Woman Imprisoned and Starved Stepson for 20 Years, Police Say

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Par :Liam Stack

12 mars 2025 à 23:44

Emergency workers responding to a fire in Waterbury, Conn., found the man, 32, who weighed only 68 pounds and had been held captive in a tiny room.

ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities

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Par :Carol Rosenberg and Charlie Savage

12 mars 2025 à 23:39

A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.

Migrants arriving at Guantánamo Bay last month.

Columbia Activist’s Case Goes to Court

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Par :Matthew Cullen

12 mars 2025 à 23:06

Also, a government shutdown looms. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

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