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Venezuelan Jets Fly Over U.S. Navy Ship in Show of Force

The flyover took place two days after the United States carried out a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs.

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The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham in the Red Sea.
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Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to authorize pharmacists to provide the vaccine to almost anyone who wants it without a prescription.

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New federal restrictions have limited the availability of Covid boosters without a prescription.
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Biden Has Surgery to Remove Skin Cancer

Three months earlier, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the National Bar Association’s 100th Annual Awards Gala.
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N.Y.C. Elections Board May Block Ballot Proposals on Housing

The City Council opposes the measures, which would curtail its power. The Board of Elections, appointed by the Council, could prevent voters from weighing in.

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A panel Mayor Eric Adams created has submitted several housing-related ballot measures for the November election that would curtail the City Council’s power to block new developments.
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U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain More Than 70 Migrants

Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.

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The Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant in central New York was the site of a Homeland Security raid.
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Members of Congress Grasp for a Stopgap Deal to Avert a Shutdown

Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on what it should look like.

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Top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and House have conceded that a stopgap bill will be needed to keep government funds flowing while they try to reach a long-term compromise.
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Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has told confidants that he would consider abandoning his re-election bid. President Trump said he favored a “one on one” mayoral race.

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Mayor Eric Adams appeared at a gathering outside City Hall to mark the 1,500th anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and billed it as an endorsement event.
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New Congressional Map Clears First Hurdle in Missouri

A legislative committee took a first step to redraw the state’s congressional map in a Republican effort to gain a new seat.

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Missouri Democrats listened as State Representative Dirk Deaton, a Republican, spoke during a committee hearing on redistricting on Thursday.
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Melania Trump Has a Warning for Humanity: ‘The Robots Are Here’

The first lady has shown herself to be captivated by the wonders and dangers and opportunities of modern technologies.

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“The robots are here,” Melania Trump said at a White House event on Thursday. “Our future is no longer science fiction.”
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Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.
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RFK Jr. Faces Senate Grilling After Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up

A three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee revealed that the health secretary was on uncertain ground even with some Republicans who voted to confirm him.

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Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. at Thursday’s hearing, which descended into a free-for-all, in part over Mr. Kennedy’s approach to vaccination, the turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and especially his decision last week to fire Susan Monarez, the C.D.C. director.
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What Is College Like for You?

Higher education is in flux, and students are adjusting to a lot of changes.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

The campus of the University of Chicago.
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Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core.

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A cutaway illustration of the modern Martian interior. A meteor striking one side of the planet’s surface, left, creates seismic waves that are detected by NASA’s InSight lander, right.
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