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Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business

Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games.

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New York City’s organized crime families have become less visible, but they remain alive and well, investigators say.
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Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco

President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.

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People rallied on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall after President Trump called off a planned federal deployment in the city.
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NBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know

Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, was among the former and current N.B.A. basketball players who were arrested on Thursday in connection with two illegal gambling investigations.
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Here Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments

More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Federal and local law enforcement officials announced on Thursday dozens of arrests into what they described as illegal gambling schemes.
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N.B.A. Figures Charged in Gambling Schemes

Also, Trump halted his plan to send federal agents to San Francisco. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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Damon Jones, Chauncey Billups, and Terry Rozier
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The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia

For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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The headquarters of the Russian oil giant Lukoil in Moscow on Thursday.
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Trump’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War

After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.

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The moves to impose new sanctions demonstrate the extent of President Trump’s frustration with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds

Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.

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A protester near an ICE building in Portland, Ore.
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Trump Opens ANWR to Oil Drilling

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.

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The 1002 Area of the Arctic wildlife refuge on Alaska’s north slope in 2018.
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Archbishop of U.S. Anglican Church Is Accused of Sexual Harassment

Another leader in the breakaway denomination has been accused of responding slowly to accusations of abuse and grooming against a lay leader.

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The accusations against Archbishop Stephen Wood came amid continuing turmoil in the small denomination, including the ecclesiastical trial of a bishop and other accusations of mishandling abuse.
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Trump’s Ballroom Project Claims 123-Year-Old East Wing

Mourners are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.

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An undated photograph of the entrance to the East Wing of the White House.
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Kim Kardashian Announces Brain Aneurysm Diagnosis. Here’s What to Know.

About one in every 50 people has an unruptured brain aneurysm. It was not clear whether Ms. Kardashian had experienced symptoms.

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Kim Kardashian during a meeting at the White House last year. Ms. Kardashian has previously promoted full-body M.R.I. scans, despite doctors warning that these scans may not be useful for every patient.
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U.S. to Investigate China’s Compliance With 2020 Trade Deal

The trade case is coming at a pivotal moment, before a meeting next week between President Trump and China’s leader.

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An investigation by the Trump administration could be a U.S. effort to gain leverage before a meeting between President Trump and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.
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‘Brother Wang,’ Accused of Being Drug Cartel Fixer, Is Arrested in Cuba

Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”

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Havana in 2023. Zhi Dong Zhang was detained in Cuba after having escaped Mexico, where he was accused of helping lead a vast criminal network.
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Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On

A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.

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An aide places a sign on a lectern at the Capitol on Thursday, before a news conference with House Republican leadership. The House is in recess.
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Trump Supporters Are Uneasy About Military Actions Against Venezuela

Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region.

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“There’s supposed to be incentives for ending wars and conflicts around the world,” the far-right activist Laura Loomer said.
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