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Trump’s Travel Ban Prompts Fear and Frustration for U.S. Immigrants

Immigrants from the targeted countries said the ban would upend their lives. “I don’t understand why the president has to target us nonstop,” one Haitian asylum seeker said.

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Travelers at Kennedy Airport on Thursday after President Trump’s announcement of a travel ban targeting a dozen countries.
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An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir

Officials say the train will help the troubled region, but many Kashmiris see it as a tool to entrench the Indian government’s control.

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A Vande Bharat Express train arriving at the railway station in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, during a trial run in January.
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U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat from Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns

Jonathan Hall, a British government adviser, said in an interview that hostile states were paying local criminals to carry out acts of violence, espionage and intimidation.

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“Terrorism is something that gets public attention,” Jonathan Hall said, while state threats are “much harder to conceptualize.”
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South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions

After six months of turmoil, citizens hope for better times. But political polarization and international tensions over trade mean many worries remain.

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Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, appearing at a post-election rally with his wife, Kim Hye-kyeong, in Seoul on Wednesday.
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Curtailing Foreign Students at Harvard

The same federal judge also extended her block on another attempt by the administration to stop the university from issuing student visas.

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The two sides have been battling in court for weeks over Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, who are a major portion of its student body.
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As Ousters Continue, F.B.I. Singles Out Employee Over Friendship With Trump Critic

Threated with demotion, a veteran agent with ties to a former official on the F.B.I. director’s so-called enemies list opted to resign. Two others were forced to move and retire.

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Trump supporters accused Spencer Evans, an F.B.I. agent who ran a field office in Las Vegas, of denying religious exemptions for Covid vaccines when he worked in human resources at F.B.I. headquarters.
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Trump Compares Russia and Ukraine to Children Fighting

During a visit by the German leader, President Trump essentially threw up his hands, saying that there was nothing the United States could do right now to end the war.

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President Trump met with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Shari Redstone Confirms Cancer Diagnosis While Facing Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Suit

Ms. Redstone, who is trying to close the sale of her family’s Paramount media empire to Skydance, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer this spring.

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Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global, “and her family are grateful that her prognosis is excellent,” a spokeswoman said.
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Trump’s New Travel Ban Is Built on Lessons From First-Term Fights

The addition of visa overstays as a rationale could provide an opening for new legal challenges, migrant advocates say.

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Sierra Leone has been added to President Trump’s new travel ban for having too many of citizens who have come to the United States on nonimmigrant visas, like tourists and students, and have overstayed past the expiration dates of those visas.
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Israel Bombs Beirut Outskirts, Citing Hezbollah Drone Workshops

The airstrikes on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, an area where Hezbollah holds sway, were some of the heaviest since a U.S.-brokered cease-fire came into effect in November.

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Smoke and fire erupting from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.
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State Dept. Imposes Sanctions on International Criminal Court Judges

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the four judges were responsible for investigations of the U.S. military and arrest warrants against top Israeli officials.

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The United States and Israel are not members of the International Criminal Court and have long chafed at its efforts to prosecute officials in their governments and militaries.
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Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds

The domestic policy bill passed by the House raises the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. But about a third of children would not receive the full credit because their parents have low wages or lack jobs.

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The Republican plan to raise the credit, which would cost nearly $25 billion a year, renews partisan jousting over the program’s purpose.
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Trump Golf Club in Bedminster Racks Up Health Violations

The general manager at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., derided the annual health inspection, calling it “a politically motivated attack.”

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“Never before have we witnessed such visceral hostility from the Health Department,” the general manager said in a statement. The club was reinspected this week and received an 86.
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How to Research and Plan a Vacation, Right on Your Phone

Google Maps and Apple’s Maps app offer location-based directories and other tools for finding new places to explore, before or after you hit the road.

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Apple Maps includes hiking trails in popular parks and nature preserves, as well as the ability to create a custom route.
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1 Dead After Explosion on Barge Near Manhattan Sewage Plant

The victim, who worked at the plant, was transporting raw sewage on the boat when part of it exploded on Saturday, the Fire Department said. The cause is under investigation.

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The explosion occurred near a sewage treatment plant just off the Henry Hudson Parkway near 138th Street.
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Two Decades After Her Death, Celia Cruz Lives On for Her Fans

Whether minted on a U.S. coin, captured as a bobblehead or painted in a new Miami mural, the late “Queen of Salsa” continues to draw attention to her musical legacy 100 years after her birth.

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Celia Cruz delivered many salsa hits in more than 70 albums of a career that started in Cuba and reached its peak in the United States. She died in 2003.
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How the Right Has Reshaped the Narrative Around George Floyd

After George Floyd was killed, people from the right and left agreed that the act was unconscionable. Now, some conservatives are calling for the police officer responsible to be pardoned.

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George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable

If critics focus on his economic failures, corruption and manipulation — and get their own houses in order.

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Europe’s Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump’s Tearing It Up

The Trump administration sees tariff talks as a chance to pressure a rival into concessions. E.U. officials have acted as though they were dealing with an ally.

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Nearly $5 billion in goods and services cross the Atlantic between the United States and European Union every single day, by E.U. estimates.
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