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With Bezos Wedding, Venice Braces for Love in the Time of Tech Billionaires

The celebration of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez has divided a city that centuries ago set the standard for opulence.

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The Grand Canal in Venice. While city officials welcomed the money and the prestige the Bezos event brought, many locals felt it epitomized the city’s overtourism.
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Taco Trucks Feed Workers After the Palisades Fire

A huddle of trucks has become the most reliable place for cleanup crews and contractors to find lunch.

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Some of the food truck vendors were at work on the first day of the fires and had to flee along with Palisades residents.
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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

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A nurse in the dispensary of a clinic in Mhlosheni, Eswatini, which once had the world’s highest rate of H.I.V. infection. From January to April, nearly 5,000 people with H.I.V. failed to pick up their medication, most likely because their clinics were closed or their outreach workers were fired.
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Cuomo, Chastened, Will Reassess Plans to Run as an Independent

The shape of the mayor’s race in November and the future of Andrew M. Cuomo are now in flux after Zohran Mamdani’s performance on Tuesday.

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Mr. Cuomo conceded on Tuesday after running what was widely considered a low-energy campaign.
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5 Takeaways From the New York City Mayoral Primary

Here are some of the factors that drove Zohran Mamdani to the cusp of a seismic upset, and how they will affect the general election in November.

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Mr. Mamdani stitched together a novel Democratic coalition across the city, largely consisting of white, Asian and Latino voters in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
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Online and IRL, Trump Offers a Window Into His Psyche

Other countries used to need spies to discern the thinking of American presidents. Now they just need a Truth Social account.

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President Trump en route to the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Tuesday.
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Four Astronauts Lift Off on Axiom Mission to the I.S.S.

Sponsored by governments but ferried by a private company, astronauts from Hungary, India and Poland are going to the space station for the first time.

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From left, the Axiom crew: Shubhanshu Shukla of India; Peggy Whitson, who will command the mission; Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland; and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
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China Tightens Controls on Fentanyl but Calls It a U.S. Problem

Two chemicals used to make the powerful opioid will be more strictly regulated, but an official said it was “the United States’ responsibility to solve the issue.”

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Using fentanyl at a California encampment last year. The Trump administration says China hasn’t done enough to keep the drug out of the United States.
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A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party

The emergence of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for.

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Zohran Mamdani delivered a closing argument at sunrise on Primary Day in Queens.
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The Bombing of Iran May Teach an Unwelcome Lesson on Nuclear Weapons

Will America’s pre-emptive strike discourage other countries from pursuing a weapon — or just the opposite?

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A poster depicting Iranian scientists creating the country’s first hypersonic ballistic missile, on a street in Tehran last year.
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Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Trump Was Hoping for at NATO

President Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran, but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.

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Honor guards rolling up a red carpet in front of the presidential limo after President Trump arrived at Huis ten Bosch, a royal palace in The Hague, on Tuesday.
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The Yellow Sea Dispute Between China and South Korea

China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.

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Korean military veterans protested near the Chinese Embassy in Seoul in April, calling on Beijing to remove the steel structures it installed in shared waters in the Yellow Sea.
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Mick Ralphs, of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Dies at 81

A guitarist and songwriter, he ditched glam rock at its peak and scored with meatier stadium-rock anthems like “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Making Love.”

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Mick Ralphs performing with the British band Bad Company in 1974.
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Pride Flags Slashed at Atlanta L.G.B.T.Q. Landmark, Four Arrested

A group of male youths traveled to Atlanta before dawn and tore flags at a rainbow crosswalk, the police said. Two of them remain at large as the authorities consider hate crime charges.

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The intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street in Atlanta, known for its rainbow-painted crosswalks and significance to the city’s L.G.B.T.Q. community.
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JB Pritzker to Seek Third Term as Illinois Governor

Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat and billionaire hotel heir, has emerged as a vocal critic of President Trump and a possible presidential contender.

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Gov. JB Pritzker, 60, has become a vocal critic of President Trump.
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House Conservatives Warn They Can’t Back Senate Bill to Enact Trump’s Agenda

Both President Trump and Senate Republican leaders are pressing for the House to accept their version of the sprawling domestic policy bill, but some right-wing holdouts are opposed to key pieces.

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Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, said he would not vote for the Senate’s current version of the domestic policy bill.
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Toronto Sees Record Temperatures as Extreme Heat Settles Over Canada

Sweltering temperatures not seen in Toronto in nearly a decade have prompted health alerts, pool closures and warnings to students to expect “uncomfortable conditions.”

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Beaches in Toronto were packed on Monday as the city endured high temperatures.
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Women in Menopause Don’t Care

The “We Do Not Care” club, founded by influencer Melani Sanders, celebrates women who have stopped trying to please everyone.

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Melani Sanders often uses a highlighter to mark the submissions she reads out loud from her “we do not care” lists. It helps combat her perimenopause-induced brain fog, she said — that is, when she remembers where she put the marker in the first place.
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