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With CEQA Scaled Back, California Hopes for a Housing Boom

After scaling back a landmark environmental law, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders are hoping for a construction boom.

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Housing experts said that higher-density buildings like apartment complexes could get faster approvals after California rolled back its environmental law.
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Alabama Violated Constitutional Rights of Death Row Inmate, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.

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Michael Sockwell in an undated photograph. He was found guilty of murdering a deputy sheriff, but a federal appeals court found that prosecutors violated his 14th Amendment rights at his trial in 1990.
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Senate G.O.P. Gambles Its Legacy and Political Fate on Bill

The sprawling legislation that Republicans expended extraordinary effort to muscle through the Senate was a high-stakes risk that is likely to have major consequences for the party and the country.

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Senator John Thune, the majority leader, inside the Senate chamber as a “vote-a-rama” begins on Capitol Hill to pass President Trump’s bill on Monday.
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Social Security Backs Off Listing Living Migrants as Dead

Instead, the agency is flagging as “unverified” the Social Security numbers of thousands of people who lost their temporary legal status.

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The original move to classify migrants as dead came as a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency rattled the Social Security Administration with a series of aggressive changes.
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Ali Shamkhani, Top Iran Official, Survived Israeli Strike

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani was seen struggling to walk with a cane at a funeral procession this weekend for military commanders killed in the 12-day war.

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Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani in 2018. He told Iranian state media on Saturday that he had sustained serious injuries in the Israeli strike in June.
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Kodak, Once the Picture of a Dying Brand, Is Having a Moment

The company’s name has become synonymous with a failure to adapt to the digital revolution. But overseas, its logo has become an unlikely retro fashion statement.

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Ser Wei Kam, 28 (top left), and her friends shopping at Corner Shop, a Kodak Apparel store in Seoul.
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Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes

In a deal with the Trump administration, the University of Pennsylvania will not allow transgender women to participate in women’s sports.

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The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.
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Richard A. Boucher, Veteran State Department Spokesman, Dies at 73

Working for six secretaries of state, he was known for explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy in a noncombative tone, without interjecting his own opinion.

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The State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher talked about a standoff between the United States and China at a press briefing in Washington in 2001.
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Latest in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial: Timeline and Testimony

The music mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. Here’s what has happened in court.

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Sean Combs has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have said all the sex at issue in the case was consensual.
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How Prosecutors Have Charged Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs With Racketeering Conspiracy

Prosecutors aimed to show jurors that Sean Combs ran a criminal enterprise responsible for years of sex-trafficking, drug distribution and other crimes.

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Prosecutors are seeking to prove that Sean Combs ran a criminal enterprise responsible for enabling years of sexual exploitation and other crimes.
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New Yorkers Embraced Ranked-Choice Voting. Mamdani’s Win Proves It.

Here are five takeaways from New York City’s second experience with ranked-choice voting, and how it helped Zohran Mamdani secure a decisive victory.

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Voters in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary in New York City seemed to have a better grasp of the ranked-choice process than they did in 2021.
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Columbia Will Pay $9 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over U.S. News Ranking

Students said they had been overcharged for their educations as a result of incorrect data that they said the school had used to artificially inflate its ranking.

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Columbia University said in a statement on Tuesday that it “deeply regrets deficiencies in prior reporting” but did not formally admit wrongdoing.
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Federal Judge Halts RFK Jr.’s Mass Firing Efforts at H.H.S. For Now

In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of Health and Human Services was probably unlawful.

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The judge found that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ambition to wipe out entire programs far exceeded his authority.
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Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms

The Nordic country for the first time has extended a lottery for compulsory military service to women in its latest move to expand its armed forces.

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In the past, women were allowed to volunteer to serve in the military, but they were not entered into a lottery system for compulsory service like their male peers. Women volunteers made up roughly a quarter of 2024’s cohort.
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Keir Starmer Endures Rebellion in Parliament Over Welfare Cuts

A bill to cut the cost of Britain’s social welfare system passed a hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, but only after Prime Minister Keir Starmer made significant concessions.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s retreat on the planned welfare cuts did not satisfy many lawmakers within his increasingly fractious Labour party.
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Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill

Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

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A medical volunteer performing an eye exam at a free clinic for uninsured people in Wise, Va. Nearly 12 million more Americans could become uninsured by 2034 if a recent version of Senate Republicans’ bill were to become law.
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Günther Uecker, Who Punctuated His Art With Nails, Dies at 95

A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — expressing the power of repetition to bring about complexity.

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Günther Uecker in 1996. His art made visible the sustained, almost violent effort it takes to shape the world with one’s hands.
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Despite Pressure From Trump, Powell Remains Patient on Rate Cuts

The Federal Reserve chair said the central bank would make decisions on interest rates based on data.

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde participated in a panel on Tuesday at the European bank’s’ annual conference, held in Sintra, Portugal.
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As U.S. Warms Ties With Syria, What Does It Expect?

President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials laid out expectations from the new government in Damascus.

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Syrians celebrating President Trump’s plan to ease sanctions, in Homs, Syria, in May.
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National Climate Report Website Goes Dark

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

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A screenshot of globalchange.gov from June 29, archived by the Internet Archive, and a screenshot of how the site appears on July 1.
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Zohran Mamdani Wins N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary in Decisive 12-Point Victory

Mr. Mamdani roundly defeated Andrew M. Cuomo in the Democratic contest, widening his primary-night lead by a significant margin once ranked-choice tabulations were run.

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As he clinched the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor on Tuesday, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew M. Cuomo, the former governor who led in polls for much of the race.
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