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After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out. But DOGE Is Just Getting Started.

With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team’s approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.

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Elon Musk’s mission for the Department of Government Efficiency — deep cuts in spending, personnel and projects — appears to be taking root, with DOGE staff now in key jobs across the federal government.
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The Trump-Elon Musk Feud Creates More Problems for Tesla

Already suffering from steep declines in sales and profit, the carmaker could now face the president’s wrath.

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With the blessing of the president, the Republican domestic policy bill would gut programs that add billions of dollars to Tesla’s bottom line.
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Five Big Midterm Questions That Could Shape Democrats’ 2028 Field

Before they can run in 2028, numerous top Democrats will first face re-election in 2026. And for everyone, the midterms will serve as a new political proving ground.

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Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland is one of several Democrats seen as potential presidential candidates.
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Trump’s International Student Ban Sparks Fear Among Harvard Attendees

Alfred Williamson could not have imagined how much his freshman year would be shaped by the Trump administration, inside and outside the classroom.

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Alfred Williamson, who is from Wales, was accepted to Harvard, making him the first person from his school to get into an Ivy League college and the first in his family to study in the United States.
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When College Graduates Throw Away Expensive Things, Scavengers Dive In

For local scavengers, graduation season is a great time to salvage expensive household items and luxury goods abandoned by departing students.

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Lena Geller, 26, said she collected about $6,600 worth of items thrown away by Duke University students in her apartment building. She is wearing and seated with some of the items.
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Parents in Gaza Are Running Out of Ways to Feed Their Children

A New York Times article last year described two families struggling to keep their malnourished children alive in Gaza. Now, as Israeli restrictions keep out most aid, that’s even harder.

© Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

A food distribution line in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, in April. The territory is facing a hunger crisis.
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Even Before Trump’s Visa Clampdown, U.S. Was Losing African Students

African students have traded academic institutions in the West for Chinese alternatives. The Trump administration’s clampdown on international students and visas could accelerate the shift.

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Ghanaian student Helen Dekyem, photographed near the China Pharmaceutical University, where she is enrolled, in Nanjing, China, in 2023.
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How Manhattan Country School Suddenly Collapsed

Inspired by the civil rights movement, Manhattan Country School educated the children of aristocrats and undocumented immigrants. Then it got into real estate.

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A rally at Manhattan Country School on Tuesday to raise awareness that the school was facing foreclosure.
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Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists

A city with an image dented by protests, pandemic restrictions and a security crackdown hopes to broaden its appeal beyond budget-minded visitors from mainland China.

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People heading into the new Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. The city is seeking to rebrand itself as the region’s events capital, emphasizing concerts and trade shows.
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Abrego Garcia Charges: What We Know

Three months after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was flown back to the United States on Friday to face federal charges.

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For months, the Trump administration had resisted court orders to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
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Return of Abrego Garcia Raises Questions About Trump’s Views of Justice

For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.

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“Abrego Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters at a news conference on Friday.
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‘Devil in the Ozarks' Escapee Is Caught Near Arkansas Prison

Grant Hardin, who came to be known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured on Friday, nearly two weeks after his May 25 escape from a high-security prison.

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Grant Hardin, a former police chief and convicted killer, wore a disguise as he escaped from a prison in Arkansas on May 25, the authorities said.
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Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records

As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court.

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The Trump administration said the Department of Government Efficiency, formed by Elon Musk, needed sensitive records of the Social Security Administration to root out waste and fraud and to modernize the agency’s operations.
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D.C. Hosts WorldPride Parade in the Shadow of Trump

Washington is hosting WorldPride, a global celebration of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, but the event has been made more difficult by shifts in U.S. policy.

“I knew that there was going to be a shift,” the board president of Capital Pride Alliance said. “I don’t think most of us probably thought it was going to happen so quickly.”
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Sunny Jacobs, a Celebrity After Freed From Death Row, Dies at 77

Her story, fashioned into an Off Broadway play and television movies, was later questioned by an investigator in a 2021 book.

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Sunny Jacobs in 2019. She spent nearly 17 years in prison in Florida, five of them on death row, for the murders of two law enforcement officers at a Florida rest stop.
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AMC Says It Will Show More Ads Before Movies

The theater chain’s decision brings it in line with what its biggest competitors, Regal and Cinemark, have been doing since 2019, but it risks irking loyal customers.

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AMC, the movie theater chain, reversed course six years after it rejected a proposal to show more ads before movies, fearing a negative reaction from customers.
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Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.
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Proud Boys Convicted in Jan. 6 Attack Sue Government on Claims of ‘Political Persecution’

Much of the lawsuit sought to re-litigate legal questions that sided against the group during a lengthy pretrial period and a multiweek trial in Federal District Court in Washington.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

The lawsuit is another attempt by the Jan. 6 rioters to blame the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for engaging in what the complaint called “a corrupt and politically motivated” prosecution.
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