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A Flat $40 Train Ticket From NYC to Albany? It’s Happening Next Year.

For the first time, Metro-North will run trains past Poughkeepsie through the Hudson Valley to Albany. Some Amtrak service will also be restored.

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Metro-North, which has stopped at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for decades, will begin service to Albany in the spring.
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White House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom

The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.

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Construction on the East Room of the White House, as seen from near the Treasury Department on Monday.
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Your November Election Guide (Yes, This November)

It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration.

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Among the off-year elections next month are contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
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What to Know About the California Special Election

Some 23 million voters have received mail ballots for the Nov. 4 election. The only statewide measure this fall is a redistricting plan spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Assemblywoman Sade Elhawary celebrates after the State Assembly approved the first of three bills to redraw California’s congressional districts if voters approve.
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Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say

The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.

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The authorities arrested a man who they said went to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday morning with plans to “shoot it up.”
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To Counter China’s Hold on Rare Minerals, Trump Turns to Australia

The United States hopes to become less dependent on China by increasing access to mineral-rich countries. Rare earth metals are vital to an array of modern industries.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shook hands after signing a critical minerals deal on Monday.
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White House Works to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu

The Trump administration strategy is to try to keep Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel from resuming an all-out assault against Hamas, U.S. officials said.

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Vice President JD Vance boarding Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington en route to Israel on Monday. His visit is meant to help illustrate the Trump administration’s commitment to keeping the peace deal intact.
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James Comey’s Lawyers Move to Dismiss Case Brought by Trump’s Justice Dept.

Motions by lawyers for the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sought to dismiss the case in a two-front assault.

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James B. Comey’s lawyers had so many examples of President Trump’s aggressive statements that they persuaded Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, who is overseeing the case, to give them an extra 15 pages to work with.
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Operations Unravel

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has suspended its aid operations because of the cease-fire, but it is also running low on funds and faces logistical obstacles to resuming its work.

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Palestinians carrying aid packages from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution center in the central Gaza Strip last month.
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Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29

He earned the highest title in the chess world at 17, and built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

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Daniel Naroditsky at his home in Charlotte, N.C., in 2022.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Will Appeal His Conviction and Prison Sentence

The mogul’s defense team notified the appellate court that it will challenge the jury’s verdict on prostitution-related charges and the four-year prison term he received.

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Sean Combs’s lawyers have railed against the prosecution as targeting the mogul for what they say amounted to consensual sexual activities between adults.
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Disney+ Cancellations Jump After Kimmel Suspension

Roughly three million Americans canceled the streaming service in the month that it temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show. About 4.1 million people canceled Disney-owned Hulu.

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A woman protesting outside Disneyland last month, after Jimmy Kimmel’s show was suspended for remarks he made regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
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Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show

“Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade.

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Frederick Wellington Ruckstull created this monument on commission from the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy. Protesters splashed it with red paint in 2017.
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Airlines Told to Disregard Gender- Neutral ‘X’ on U.S. Passports and Add ‘M’ or ‘F’

Although passports with an “X” marker remain valid, a new federal rule requires airlines on their internal information system to mark passengers with an “M” or an “F.”

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In 2022, “X” markers became available to U.S. passport holders to acknowledge the rights of people who do not identify as male or female.
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A Boston Restaurant Displayed Whitey Bulger’s Mug Shot. An Uproar Ensued.

The owners of Savin Bar & Kitchen have so far rejected requests from residents to remove photos of gangsters who terrorized the city for decades.

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Photos of Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi, center, and James “Whitey” Bulger, right, were put up as part of a renovation this year at Savin Bar & Kitchen in Boston.
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