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Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles Home Is Saved From Demolition

A judge denied a neighbor’s petition to raze the Spanish-style hacienda, which the City Council had declared a cultural landmark.

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The Spanish-style hacienda where the film star and popular culture icon Marilyn Monroe lived, in Los Angeles.
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Ruth Paine, Who Gave Lodging to Marina Oswald, Dies at 92

Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Ruth Paine in 2013. She let Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife, Marina, stay at her home in 1963 and, according to the author Thomas Mallon, knew more about the Oswalds’ movements and moods in the months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy than anyone else did.
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Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

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Voting in Chisinau, Moldova, during a presidential election runoff last year. The country will hold parliamentary elections at the end of the month.
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Why the Court Let Google Off Easy

The message to other companies is plain: It pays to break the law.

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What We Know About the Hyundai-LG Plant Immigration Raid in Georgia

Several hundred workers, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained at the construction site of a sprawling electric vehicle battery plant on Thursday.

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Heavy machinery at a standstill at the site of an electric vehicle battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday.
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Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

Critics worry a new law could curb freedom of expression, affect tourism and cut communication with the many Nepalis who work abroad.

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Using a smartphone in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday, the day a compliance deadline for social media companies expired.
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Egypt-Israel Tensions Rise Over Attack on Gaza City

A large-scale Israeli assault on the city in northern Gaza could push hundreds of thousands of Palestinians southward toward Egypt’s border.

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Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City earlier this week. Israel is preparing for a major attack on Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living.
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Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia

The raid at a Georgia plant being built with heavy investment from South Korea reveals strain as a rush to expand manufacturing in the United States clashes with an immigration crackdown.

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Vehicles move on the line at the Hyundai Motor Group plant in Ellabell, Ga. in March. Another part of that complex, still under construction, was raided on Thursday.
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String Theory

Today, on the last day of the U.S. Open, we have a chat with a tennis writer.

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At Flushing Meadows.
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South Korea Negotiates Release of Korean Workers Detained in Georgia Raid

The South Korean government said on Sunday that it would send a charter plane to the United States to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in an immigration raid.

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Heavy machinery at a standstill at the site of an electric vehicle battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday.
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Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.

Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects financed by the 2021 law, which he strenuously opposed ahead of its passage.

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A sign bearing President Trump’s name is posted at a bridge project in Maryland made possible by an infrastructure law he strenuously opposed.
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The Spectacular Comeback Tour of Ross Ulbricht, the Founder of Silk Road

Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.

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Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted of drug distribution on his Silk Road marketplace, was the closing speaker at Bitcoin 2025, a conference held at the Venetian in Las Vegas in May.
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For Americans in Ukraine, Opportunity and the Lure of Combat

The profile of U.S. volunteers in the Ukrainian military has changed, shifting more toward people without military experience and those who saw few prospects for themselves at home.

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U.S. volunteer soldier Zachery Miller, second from left, with fellow foreign solders after a live fire exercise at a military ground in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, in July.
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Patagonia Changed the Apparel Business. Can It Change Food, Too?

The outdoor apparel maker from California wants to fix farming. The first challenge is convincing consumers to think of it for sardines and beer.

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Luke Peterson, of A-Frame Farm, holding Kernza, a type of wheatgrass that Patagonia Provisions is using, in a field outside of Dawson, Minn.
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