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5 Takeaways From the First N.Y.C. Mayoral Debate

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, faced a barrage of attacks from his Democratic rivals.

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Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani going back and forth during the debate on Wednesday. Cuomo was the biggest target of attacks by the other candidates.
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Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides

The executive order is the latest effort by President Trump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor and question the legality of his actions in office.

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President Trump ordered an investigation into whether aides to former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. enacted policies without his knowledge.
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Harvey Milk’s Name Is Not Going Anywhere in San Francisco

Mr. Milk’s name adorns numerous sites in the city, where he became a trailblazer for gay rights before he was killed in 1978. The Pentagon is considering stripping his name from a Navy vessel.

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The Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco, where a quotation from Mr. Milk, “Hope will never be silent,” adorns a building.
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Fearful House Republicans Scramble to Mollify Musk

Republicans in the chamber are bending over backward to appease the world’s richest man, who is furious at them for voting for a bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic policy agenda.

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Elon Musk’s opposition to the bill has put House Republicans in the awkward position of straining to satisfy two authority figures who are now at odds.
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‘Carol,’ Whose Detention Rattled Her Small Missouri Town, Is Released

Ming Li Hui’s detention by the immigration authorities brought the reality of President Trump’s immigration crackdown to rural Missouri, where supporters rallied for her freedom.

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Ming Li Hui, known to people in Kennett, Mo., as Carol, immigrated to the United States 20 years ago.
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U.S. Brings Back Guatemalan Wrongly Deported to Mexico

The Trump administration obeyed the instructions of the judge in the case, a significant departure from the defiant stance it has staked out in other immigration matters.

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A federal judge found that the Trump administration had violated an order barring officials from deporting immigrants to countries not their own without first giving them a “meaningful opportunity” to contest their removal.
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U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday that it was reducing its collection of price data for goods and services, including grocery items.
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Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan

A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

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The Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump has accused the outlet, which delivers news in countries with authoritarian governments such as Russia, China and Iran, of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”
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How Trump Talks About Antisemitism

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters that he’d be the “best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House.” But after a string of violent antisemitic attacks, the president has been criticized for his slow or muted responses. Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains.
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‘Sinners’ Goes Beyond Horror and the Blues for Clarksdale, Miss.

The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about investing in the Delta town that built the blues.

Tyler Yarbrough with Dr. Mary Williams. He led an open letter urging the director Ryan Coogler to screen “Sinners” in Clarksdale, Miss., “to experience firsthand the living, breathing legacy that inspired your work and the people who are sustaining and reimagining its future.”
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Karine Jean-Pierre, Former Biden Press Secretary, Leaves Democratic Party

In a coming book, Ms. Jean-Pierre will describe a “betrayal” by her party when Joseph R. Biden Jr. ended his re-election campaign. Democrats were quick to criticize her.

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In her forthcoming book, Karine Jean-Pierre will argue that it “can be worthwhile to carve a political space more loyal to personal beliefs than a party affiliation,” according to a description of the book.
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Judge Blocks Deportation of Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack

Lawyers for the wife and children of the man charged with attacking an event supporting hostages in Gaza filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking their release.

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The home of Mohamed Sabry Soliman in Colorado Springs on Sunday, the day he is accused of attacking an event honoring Israeli hostages.
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How Higher Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Will Affect Companies

Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials. Those companies could charge customers more.

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A steel plant in Zelzate, Belgium. The European Steel Association has warned that the tariff increase could cause a flood of cheap foreign steel to be dumped into the E.U. market.
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Man Is Accused of Aiding California Fertility Clinic Bomber

Daniel Park, 32, of Washington State, was arrested Tuesday night at Kennedy Airport and charged with providing material support to terrorists, officials said.

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Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man with “nihilistic ideations,” bombed the American Reproductive Centers clinic, according to officials.
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Putin Intends to Respond to Ukraine Strikes on Russian Bombers, Trump Says

President Trump spoke with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia amid escalating attacks between Russia and Ukraine, even as their officials have been engaged in direct talks.

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In a photo distributed by Russian state media, President Vladimir V. Putin holds a video meeting with government officials on Wednesday at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow.
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Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says

The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

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The president’s signature domestic policy bill squeezed through the House last month after Speaker Mike Johnson struck deals to mollify holdout factions of his party.
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Trump Allies Try to Discredit Experts Warning About the Cost of Tax Cuts

President Trump and his allies have united around a new foe: the economists and budget experts who have warned about the costs of Republicans’ tax ambitions.

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President Trump’s allies were trying to discredit the findings of experts even before the new forecast that their signature legislation would add $2.4 trillion to the federal debt.
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U.K. Exempt From Trump’s 50% Steel Tariff, but Europe Still Has to Pay

Despite an exemption from 50 percent tariffs, Britain still faces a 25 percent duty because its trade deal with the United States has yet to be put in place.

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The Marcegaglia Stainless Sheffield plant in Britain. The company’s chief operating officer said that although Britain was better positioned than producers from other countries that had to pay the higher tariff, the company still faced uncertainty.
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