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Trump Tariffs Aim to Settle Scores With Countries, No Matter Their Size

The president’s tariff announcements suggest he has not backed away from his initial strategy, where even smaller trading partners will face tariffs.

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President Trump posted letters on social media informing the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Moldova, Brunei, Libya, Iraq and Algeria that they should prepare for double-digit tariff rates.
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James Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump

After the former F.B.I. director put a picture on Instagram of seashells arranged to say “86 47,” law enforcement tailed his car and tracked his cellphone, steps usually reserved for serious threats.

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James B. Comey in 2019. President Trump fired him as F.B.I. director in May 2017, amid the agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.
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Court Overturns Conviction for Memes That Sought to Trick Clinton Voters

Douglass Mackey’s posts in 2016 falsely advertised text voting for Hillary Clinton. Appeals court judges said prosecutors had not shown that his actions were part of a conspiracy.

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“The government presented no evidence at trial that Mackey’s tweets tricked anyone into failing properly to vote,” a judge wrote.
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Administration Takes Steps to Target 2 Officials Who Investigated Trump

It is unclear whether the moves will lead to charges, but they suggest that President Trump’s appointees intend to follow through on his campaign to exact retribution against his perceived enemies.

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John Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligences’s Russia Investigation Task Force in May 2017.
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New U.S. Army Shaving Rule Could Affect Many Black Soldiers

Soldiers with skin conditions like razor bumps will no longer be granted permanent medical waivers that allow them to grow beards and could be kicked out of the Army if they are not clean shaven.

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A U.S. soldier shaving while deployed in Afghanistan in 2011.
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Former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea Is Arrested on New Charges

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol, already ​accused of insurrection, faced additional ​criminal charges after a special counsel expanded the investigation into his ill-fated declaration of martial law.

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Yoon Suk Yeol, former president of South Korea, arrived in court in Seoul on Wednesday for a hearing to address a new arrest warrant requested by a special prosecutor.
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Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.
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A Surgeon Shares What She Saw in Gaza’s Hospitals

Dr. Victoria Rose spent 21 days in the territory in May, treating people who were shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs.

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Dr. Victoria Rose at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip in May, in a picture distributed by the Turkish state media Anadolu Agency. “I’ve not seen this volume and this intensity before,” she said of the traumatic injuries she treated.
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Israel Launches New Ground Incursion in Lebanon, Raising Fears for Truce

Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets as the Iranian-backed group comes under pressure to disarm amid fears of a renewed war.

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An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon last week. Israel has conducted near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon since it agreed to a cease-fire in November.
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Did the Texas Flood Warnings Come in Time?

When deadly floods swept through Texas, the National Weather Service issued a series of warnings that should have automatically triggered alerts to be sent to cellphones as the Guadalupe River began to rise. Judson Jones, a meteorologist and reporter for The New York Times, explains how catastrophe ensued despite those warnings.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform

Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.

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Linda Yaccarino at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2024. She grew close to Mr. Musk in 2023, when as an executive at NBCUniversal, she pledged to keep running ads on Twitter as other advertisers were refusing to do so.
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