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“The Great Gatsby” is important, of course, but it’s also all kinds of fun.

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In Fight Over Abrego Garcia’s Deportation, Trump Seeks to Shift the Focus

The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.

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President Trump holding a document with talking points about Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in the Oval Office on Friday. The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return from El Salvador, but the president has indicated he won’t try to do so.
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Trump’s American History Revolution

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s story is told, in Washington and beyond.

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President Trump and Melania Trump at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020, where the president delivered a speech decrying the vandalism of statues during racial justice protests.
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Despite His Shaky French, Canada’s Prime Minister Is a Hit in Quebec

Voters are overlooking Mark Carney’s linguistic gaffes and lack of knowledge about the French-speaking province, viewing him as the most capable candidate to deal with President Trump.

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An election poster for Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Blainville, Quebec. In polls on this month’s federal election, Mr. Carney and his Liberal Party now have a huge lead in Quebec.
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The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, right, in the Oval Office with President Trump this month. The three men are each worth billions of dollars.
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Carmakers Highlight U.S. Manufacturing in Bid to Influence Trump Over Tariffs

Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.

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For automakers, boasting about how much they already contribute to the U.S. economy is a way to resist tariffs without offending President Trump.
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Gen Z Re-Evaluates Their Budgets as a Global Trade War Rages

Some young adults with disposable incomes for the first time in their lives are trying to make sense of how tariffs are affecting how they should save and spend.

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After graduating from the University of Missouri, Jack Kankiewicz, 22, is planning on moving in with his aunt and uncle in Ohio to save money.
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Many Have Tried to Fix Penn Station. Can Trump Get the Job Done?

Transportation experts say a thorough renovation is likely to take several years to complete — unless emergency measures are employed.

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A thicket of conflicting priorities among the various public and private entities with a stake in Penn Station have thwarted many attempts to renovate the busy train terminal.
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Trump’s Tariff Threats Chill Italy’s Cheese Makers

Italian food producers worry that tariffs may price them out of the American market amid competition from U.S. goods that look and sound as if they are from Italy.

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Grana Padano wheels aging inside the warehouse of Caseificio Zanetti. in Lallio, Italy, on Monday.
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Appeals Court Pauses for Now Contempt Proposal by Trial Judge

Judge James E. Boasberg had threatened to open contempt proceedings to determine whether the Trump administration had violated his order not to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.

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The appeals court made clear that it was not ruling on the merits of Judge James E. Boasberg’s plan for contempt proceedings but rather wanted more time to study the issue.
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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on Passport Changes

A group of transgender plaintiffs sued President Trump and the State Department over a new rule prohibiting passports from including a gender different from the sex listed on an original birth certificate.

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Julia E. Kobick at a hearing in 2022 on her nomination to become a federal judge.
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The Head of the I.R.S. Was Ousted

Also, Milwaukee is facing a lead crisis in its schools. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Gary Shapley, who briefly led the I.R.S.
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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on Passport Changes

A group of transgender plaintiffs sued President Trump and the State Department over a new rule prohibiting passports from including a gender different from the sex listed on an original birth certificate.

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Julia E. Kobick at a hearing in 2022 on her nomination to become a federal judge.
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FSU Shooting Suspect Was Shaped by Guns, Extreme Views and Chaotic Childhood

His biological mother said in an interview on Friday that she was bewildered by the attack, and had been against the presence of firearms in her son’s life.

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Flowers left at Florida State University’s campus where a shooting left two dead and six others injured on Thursday.
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Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias

An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.

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Edward Martin Jr., a Republican activist serving as interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., sent letters to science and medical journals, accusing them of bias.
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Trump Administration Bolsters Putin With Hint of Abandoning Ukraine Talks

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both suggested Friday that the United States might wash its hands of the peace effort.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would abandon efforts to end the war in Ukraine if meaningful progress is not made within days.
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Inside El Salvador’s CECOT Prison, Where Abrego Garcia Was Held

A U.S. senator was allowed to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, but he was denied access to where Mr. Abrego Garcia had been held. What is that prison like?

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Senator Chris Van Hollen, center right, and Chris Newman, a family lawyer for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, speaking to a member of the military in El Salvador after being prevented from visiting the prison where Mr. Abrego Garcia was being held on Thursday.
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Don Mischer, Master of Live Television, Is Dead at 85

He produced and directed major events like the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, as well as Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic opening ceremonies.

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The producer and director Don Mischer in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Working in live television, he said, was a job that had “a stress level that can be scary but is so thrillingly alive, it becomes addictive.”
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CJR Editor Sewell Chan Is Fired

Sewell Chan, who started as executive editor of the publication in September, said his firing after several staff complaints was “baffling.”

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Sewell Chan said he had learned earlier this week of several staff complaints about his behavior and had offered to meet with the employees.
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Justice Dept. Pushes Trump’s Agenda on Religion, Sports and Antisemitism

The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, shifting from its founding purpose of fighting race-based discrimination.

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Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, has taken steps to reverse a handful of high-profile Biden-era actions focused on addressing racial discrimination.
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Trump Administration Claims Harvard Failed to Report Large Foreign Donations

Stepping up its pressure campaign, the Education Department accused the university of failing to report large foreign gifts as required by law. Harvard disputed the claim.

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The Harvard campus this week. The Education Department told the university to provide names of foreign donors and all records of communication with them from the beginning of 2020.
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Trump’s Attack of Powell Tempered by Risk of Market Panic

President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.

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The president’s advisers have repeatedly told him that firing Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is both legally and financially fraught.
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