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Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits Over Plastics

The oil giant accused the state’s attorney general and four nonprofit groups of defamation after they sued over recycling claims.

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An Exxon Mobil’s chemical recycling unit in Baytown, Texas.
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Crime Crackdown in D.C. Shows Trump Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns

If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.

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National Guard troops around the National Mall in Washington. President Trump declared a crime emergency in the capital in August.
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Sophie Cunningham Avenged Caitlin Clark. Now Sponsors (and the Right) Love Her.

The W.N.B.A.’s Sophie Cunningham is riding her viral moment to endorsements and brand deals. But she doesn’t want to talk politics.

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Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever at a game last month. Her on-court actions in defense of her teammate Caitlin Clark in June attracted national attention.
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Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS for E.U. Leader’s Plane, Officials Say

The Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia disrupted navigation signals that would have been used by a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, European officials said.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, in Lithuania on Monday. She has been touring E.U. member states near Russia.
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Trump’s Push to Punish Flag Burning Puts Landmark Free Speech Ruling at Risk

The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag is speech protected by the First Amendment. President Trump says it should be punished.

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Gregory Johnson displayed a flag he has used in protests, in Venice, Calif., in 2021. Mr. Johnson won a landmark Supreme Court case in 1989 protecting political expression that is now being challenged by President Trump.
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Dan Rather Is Still Chasing the News

He’s 93, and 20 years removed from signing off as a CBS anchor. But he’s still tapping out stories. “As Popeye used to say, I am what I am.”

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Dan Rather publishes a newsletter three times a week, and it has more than half a million subscribers.
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Ukraine War Leads to Global Shortage of TNT for Military and Mining Use

Mining materials to make cement, gravel and a host of other common products require an explosive that is becoming more expensive and limited in supply.

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An explosion with the power of 43,000 pounds of TNT blasts rock apart at a quarry in Virginia.
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Where You Can Stumble Upon a U.S. Open Match

A small part of the New York City tennis tournament is staged, miles away from the main action, at the gleaming Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx.

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For two days each year, dozens of talented young players compete in the U.S. Open junior qualifying event in Crotona Park.
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What to Know About Rudy Giuliani’s Car Crash

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and lawyer for President Trump, suffered a fractured vertebra when a vehicle slammed into his car on Saturday.

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Rudolph W. Giuliani was in a car accident on Saturday.
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