Will Putin Attend Ukraine Peace Talks in Turkey? Kremlin’s List Indicates Not.

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Par :Yonette Joseph

15 mai 2025 à 03:43

A hard-line aide to the Russian president will instead lead the delegation, according to a Kremlin statement.

President Vladimir V. Putin’s name is not on the Kremlin’s list of Russian officials headed to Turkey for peace talks.

Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports

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Par :Jan Hoffman

15 mai 2025 à 03:15

The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.

Overdose deaths declined in all major categories of drugs, including opioids such as fentanyl and stimulants such as methamphetamine.

Missouri Lawmakers to Put Abortion on Ballot Again, Seeking Another Ban

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Par :Kate Zernike

15 mai 2025 à 03:08

The state’s Republicans are putting abortion on a ballot question again, seeking to buck the trend of voters siding with abortion rights on ballot measures.

The new ballot measure in Missouri, if approved by voters, would amend the state Constitution to ban abortion except in medical emergencies, or in cases of rape or incest under certain conditions.

In Menendez Brothers Case, a Reckoning With the 1990s

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Par :Tim Arango

15 mai 2025 à 02:19

As a court reviewed the Menendez murder case, the culture and politics of the 1990s were scrutinized almost as much as the horrific crime.

Erik Menendez listening to his defense lawyer, Leslie Abramson, as she held up a childhood photograph of him during the first trial in 1993.

Valeria Márquez, TikTok Influencer, Shot Dead During Live Stream in Mexico

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Par :Jonathan Wolfe

15 mai 2025 à 02:16

The death of Valeria Márquez, 23, was the latest reminder of the rise in violence against women in the country.

Valeria Márquez was shot and killed on Tuesday while livestreaming on TikTok.

The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans

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Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs · Erica L. Green · John Eligon and Edward Wong

15 mai 2025 à 02:15

The Trump administration’s hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors.

White South Africans at a rally outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria in February.

Bayesian Superyacht Carrying Mike Lynch Sank After ‘Extreme’ Wind Gust, Report Says

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Par :Jeffrey Gettleman and James Glanz

15 mai 2025 à 01:00

An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds. Its towering mast made it more vulnerable.

The Bayesian sailing off Palermo, Sicily, in an undated photograph released by the yacht’s maker, Perini Navi.

Anatomy of a $70 Million Auction Flop

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Par :Tim F. Schneider

15 mai 2025 à 00:50

Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday?

House Republicans Push Forward With Tax and Medicaid Cuts

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Par :Catie Edmondson and Margot Sanger-Katz

15 mai 2025 à 00:34

Two committees advanced legislation that would combine into the “big beautiful bill” to enact President Trump’s agenda, and a third was on track to do so. But the package faces a rocky path.

Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol on Wednesday. House Republicans continued to press for a bill that would extend President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit

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Par :Jan Hoffman

13 mai 2025 à 21:28

Public health and addiction experts fear millions could lose access to treatment and prevention services if the administration’s proposed cuts are enacted.

Staff at a New York City harm reduction facility packing overdose prevention kits. Community-based naloxone distribution programs are among those facing cuts.

Clerk in Murdaugh Trial Is Charged With Misconduct and Perjury

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Par :Adeel Hassan

15 mai 2025 à 01:20

Becky Hill had handled the trial in which Alex Murdaugh was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and younger son. She was arrested on Wednesday.

Becky Hill in 2024. Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh accused her of engaging in inappropriate conversations with jurors during his trial and sought to have the verdict tossed out. A judge denied the request.

Valeria Márquez, TikTok Influencer, Shot Dead During Live Stream in Mexico

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Par :Jonathan Wolfe

15 mai 2025 à 01:19

The death of Valeria Márquez, 23, was the latest reminder of the rise in violence against women in the country.

U.S. Charges Russian Scientist With Smuggling

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Par :Ellen Barry

15 mai 2025 à 01:09

A government lawyer told a federal judge on Wednesday that the intention is to deport Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, to Russia.

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist, has been in a correctional facility in Louisiana for the past three months since being detained.

101 Degrees in May? Even for Texas, This Is Hot.

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Par :Amy Graff

15 mai 2025 à 01:03

Forecasters expect multiple records to be broken over the next week as an early heat wave settles over the region.

Bayesian Superyacht Sank After ‘Extreme’ Wind Gust, Report Says

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Par :Jeffrey Gettleman and James Glanz

15 mai 2025 à 01:00

An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds. Its towering mast made it more vulnerable.

Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’

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Par :Vivian Nereim

15 mai 2025 à 00:31

In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.

President Trump declared that the United States would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live” on Tuesday during an investment conference in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

Trump Meets Ahmed al-Shara After Vowing to Lift Sanctions on Syria

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Par :Luke Broadwater · Jonathan Swan · Ismaeel Naar and Neil MacFarquhar

14 mai 2025 à 23:34

“The sanctions were really crippling,” President Trump said, before he traveled to Qatar, where he was given a lavish welcome.

A photo released by the Saudi government on Wednesday showing President Trump meeting with President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria in Riyadh.

Trump Met With Syria’s President

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Par :Whet Moser

14 mai 2025 à 23:31

Also, House Republicans planned Medicaid cuts

President Trump was welcomed today in Doha, Qatar’s capital.

As Harvard Battles Trump, Its President Will Take a 25% Pay Cut

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Par :Alan Blinder and Stephanie Saul

14 mai 2025 à 22:23

The university is facing cuts of more than $2.6 billion in federal funding and has already taken other steps to save money.

Alan M. Garber, president of Harvard University, has battled with the Trump administration over funding cuts.

Last U.S. Hostage in Gaza Is Reunited With Parents: ‘We Never Lost Hope’

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Par :Christopher Maag

14 mai 2025 à 22:15

Edan Alexander was 19 when he left New Jersey to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. He was released by Hamas on Monday.

Edan Alexander is reunited with his family at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Trump’s New Tax Cuts Could Shower Americans With Cash, for Now

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Par :Andrew Duehren

14 mai 2025 à 22:10

Almost all of the cuts that Republicans hope to pass in the coming weeks will last only until President Trump is set to leave office.

Some analysts and many Democrats warn that any gains from the tax cuts could be overwhelmed by the cuts to health care and food assistance that Republicans also intend to include in the legislation.

Gaza Hospital Strike Draws New Attention to Israel’s Medical Facility Attacks

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Par :Patrick Kingsley

14 mai 2025 à 21:17

Aid groups and U.N. investigations have accused Israel of aiming to destroy Gaza’s health infrastructure. Israel says it is forced to strike hospitals it says are used by Hamas for military purposes.

Palestinians inspecting the site of an Israeli airstrike near the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Trump Needs to Refuse a Qatari Jet and Crypto Profits

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Par :Norman Eisen · Virginia Canter and Richard W. Painter

14 mai 2025 à 21:09

Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.

Research Study Shows Barbie’s Feet Have Gotten Flatter Over Time

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Par :Alisha Haridasani Gupta

14 mai 2025 à 20:00

Researchers in Australia found that the doll’s feet have, over time, gone from arched to flat — a shift that correlates with each Barbie’s designated career or hobby.

Researchers decided to study how the angle of a Barbie’s feet has changed over time. A peer reviewed paper was released by the group on Wednesday.

FDA Moves to Take Fluoride Supplements for Children Off the Market

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Par :Dani Blum

14 mai 2025 à 19:45

The agency moved this week to ban the products, which are used to prevent cavities.

Students Are Short-Circuiting Their Chromebooks for a Social Media Challenge

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Par :Christine Hauser

14 mai 2025 à 19:43

Some students have been suspended and even criminally charged, as some of the computers catch fire or damage the surroundings.

A laptop that was short-circuited as part of the Chromebook challenge, in the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado.

Gabbard Seeks to Consolidate Her Control of President’s Daily Brief

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Par :Maggie Haberman and Julian E. Barnes

14 mai 2025 à 19:37

President Trump has wondered over time about whether the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was created after the 9/11 attacks, should continue to exist.

The moves by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, are part of her effort to shore up the role of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Richard L. Garwin, a Creator of the Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97

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Par :Robert D. McFadden

14 mai 2025 à 19:15

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most powerful weapon. He went on to advise a dozen presidents.

Dr. Richard L. Garwin in 1960 at the I.B.M. Watson Labs at Columbia University in New York. There, and later in Westchester County, N.Y., where the lab moved in 1970, he produced a stream of research projects that yielded technological advances in computers, communications and medicine.

At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight

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Par :Abbie VanSickle

14 mai 2025 à 19:01

Before the Trump presidency, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States.

John Eastman, a California law professor, and his colleagues at the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank, promoted the fringe notion that the 14th Amendment does not actually grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

What We Know About Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s Arrest

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Par :Isabelle Taft

14 mai 2025 à 18:48

Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of directing a migrant out of her courtroom as agents waited to arrest him. She was indicted on federal charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction.

The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan quickly drew condemnation from Democratic leaders and prompted protests.

Judge Orders Georgetown Academic Released From Immigration Detention

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Par :Zach Montague

14 mai 2025 à 21:17

The judge said that the government had offered no evidence that Badar Khan Suri represented a national security threat, and that efforts to deport him violated the First Amendment.

Badar Khan Suri moved to the United States in 2022 and had been teaching a course on minority rights in South Asia through his role at Georgetown this semester, according to court filings.

Pepe Mujica, the Former Uruguayan President, Removed the Pomp From Politics

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Par :Jack Nicas

14 mai 2025 à 23:27

The former Uruguayan president, who died on Tuesday, showed the value in world leaders living like their constituents.

José “Pepe” Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, at his modest home on the outskirts of Montevideo last year.

Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss’s ‘Salome’

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Par :Zachary Woolfe

14 mai 2025 à 17:31

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

Who Is Searching for Emmilee Risling?

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Par :Corina Knoll

14 mai 2025 à 14:00

One of the last places she was seen is an area known as End of Road. More than three years later, she’s the face of a crisis: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

El Chapo’s Family Members Crossed the Border in Apparent Deal With U.S., Official Says

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Par :Alan Yuhas

14 mai 2025 à 17:43

Mexico’s security secretary confirmed reports that 17 family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders had entered the United States, likely as part of a deal with the Trump administration.

Members of the Mexican Army patrolling the streets of Tijuana in March.

Taking Inches in Battle, Russia Demands Miles in Talks

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Par :Paul Sonne and Adam Entous

14 mai 2025 à 17:03

Moscow thinks it’s winning in Ukraine and can play hardball diplomatically. Washington sees costly, incremental gains and an unrealistic negotiating position.

The aftermath of a Russian strike in Sumy last month. President Vladimir V. Putin has said of Ukraine, “We have reason to believe that we are set to finish them off.”

Trump Meets Syria’s President a Day After Promise to Lift U.S. Sanctions

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Par :Ismaeel Naar and Enjoli Liston

14 mai 2025 à 16:54

President Trump’s conversation with President Ahmed al-Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the United States and Syria had met.

President Trump and members of his cabinet at a summit with Gulf leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.

RFK Jr. Defends HHS Overhaul as Democrats Denounce ‘War on Science’

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Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg

15 mai 2025 à 01:09

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifying before Congress for the first time as health secretary, also said he did not think Americans should be taking “medical advice from me.”

HBO’s Streaming Service Becomes ‘HBO Max’ Again

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Par :John Koblin

14 mai 2025 à 16:28

Warner Bros. Discovery executives are reinstating the name HBO Max for the popular streaming service. It’s the fourth name change for the app in the last decade.

HBO, a trailblazer of the cable era, has been on a very bumpy ride finding an identity in the streaming era.

3 Are Arrested in Russia-Linked Sabotage Plot, Germany Says

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Par :Christopher F. Schuetze

14 mai 2025 à 16:19

The men, Ukrainian nationals, were arrested in Germany and Switzerland, the state prosecutor in Berlin said. They are suspected of planning to sabotage commercial freight infrastructure.

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