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Gas Station Explosion Rattles Rome, Injuring Several

Several people were injured, including eight police officers and a firefighter, officials said. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear.

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A fuel tank exploded in an eastern neighborhood of Rome. Firefighters and police officers had already been called to the gas station after an earlier incident involving a truck.
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Park Service Is Left Short-Staffed in Peak Travel Season

Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the work of two or three people.

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A National Park Service custodian cleaning a bathroom in Yosemite National Park in February. At another national park, in Colorado, all the custodial staff have been fired and the other staff members have had to take on their duties.
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Teenage Aviator Detained After Landing in Antarctica, Chile Says

Ethan Guo, 19, had been documenting his attempt to fly solo to all seven continents on social media. He is no longer in custody but has no easy way to leave an island off Antarctica’s coast.

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Ethan Guo last summer in Geneva, where he began his attempt to fly solo to the seven continents.
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Mexico Confirms Arrest Warrant for Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr.

The well-known Mexican boxer was detained by U.S. immigration agents in California on Wednesday, days after fighting a high-profile contest against the former YouTuber Jake Paul.

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The Department of Homeland Security said in its statement that Julio César Chávez Jr. was “also believed to be an affiliate of the Sinaloa Cartel.”
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How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in letters to technology companies that President Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties to take care of the national security and foreign affairs of the United States.”
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Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.

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Zohran Mamdani said the college applications were the only instances that he could recall where he identified himself as Black or African American.
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections.

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The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.
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These Republicans Savaged Their Party’s Bill, Then Voted for It

Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump’s marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost right up until the moment they voted for it.

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Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, had been blunt about his concerns about the Medicaid cuts. Still, he voted yes.
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Appeals Court Lets Trump Remove Another Democrat From Independent Agency

The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.

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Susan Tsui Grundmann was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and confirmed by the Senate in 2022 for a five-year term.
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​North Korea Beach Resort Opens With Fanfare but No Foreigners

The Kalma Beach resort town, one of Kim Jong-un’s most ambitious projects aimed at attracting foreign tourists, may not draw the waves of visitors he wants.

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The Wonsan Kalma tourist area in North Korea this week. Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, had hoped it would bring in foreign currency.
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Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in already-hot rivers.

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The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, one of two nuclear stations shut down in the past week.
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He Made Green-Wood Cemetery a Destination for the Living

Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in his nearly 40 years as president. Now he’s ready to retire.

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Richard J. Moylan got a job cutting grass at Green-Wood Cemetery during law school in the 1970s. He stayed until last week.
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ECB Officials See a Chance for Europe to Compete With U.S. and China

Central bankers who gathered in Portugal this week focused on ways that Europe could improve its competitiveness with the United States and China.

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, on Tuesday at the bank’s forum in Sintra, Portugal, which had a sense of calm amid the chaos in the world.
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Around Los Angeles, ICE Raids Are Casting a Shadow on July 4th Plans

Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.

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Bell Gardens, Calif., canceled its Independence Day party, a tradition for much of the past 30 years.
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Patricia Peterson, Innovative Fashion Editor at The Times, Dies at 99

She oversaw fashion coverage beginning in 1957, when hemlines made headlines. She later made groundbreaking ads for Henri Bendel with her photographer husband, Gösta Peterson.

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Patricia Peterson in 1963. At The New York Times, she documented a changing culture as it was expressed through fashion. “That was what was so exciting,” she said. “It wasn’t just Seventh Avenue or Paris, it was life around us.”
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Mr. Big Is Alive and Well and Married in Vermont

The real-life inspiration for the famous toxic bachelor on “Sex and the City” left the Big Apple for the Green Mountain state.

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Ron Galotti, perhaps best known as the inspiration for Mr. Big in “Sex and the City” left the New York media world for 50 acres in Vermont.
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