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Suspect in Palisades Fire Pleads Not Guilty to Setting Blaze

Prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht deliberately set a fire in January that led to one of the most destructive blazes in California history. If convicted, he would face up to 45 years in prison.

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The Palisades fire in January grew to burn more than 23,000 acres, and it destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles. Twelve people died in the blaze.
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Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city police officers.

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National Guard troops patrolling around the Washington Monument in August.
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Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

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President Trump in the state dining room of the White House on Thursday.
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Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases

A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.

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A migrant being escorted off a military plane at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, earlier this year. The Homeland Security Department has been using the base on and off in President Trump’s second term to house migrants awaiting deportation.
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After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes

When a radio host suggested that Zohran Mamdani would celebrate another Sept. 11-style attack, Andrew Cuomo chuckled. Democrats denounced the exchange as Islamophobic.

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As Mayor Eric Adams announced his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for mayor on Thursday, he warned that Islamic extremism could harm New York as it has other countries.
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Tensions Mount as Agents, Including Gregory Bovino, Clash With Chicagoans

Mr. Bovino, a Border Patrol leader, appeared to use tear gas during a confrontation with residents on Thursday. Plaintiffs in a suit over federal tactics say that violated a court order.

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Gregory Bovino, at center, with federal agents during a confrontation with residents in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Thursday.
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U.S. Charges N.B.A. Figures in Gambling Schemes That Tainted Games

Terry Rozier, a Miami Heat guard, and Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, were among those arrested. Two indictments spanned the worlds of professional sports, Mafia families and online betting.

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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said one mark lost $1.8 million at cards.
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A Girls Basketball Team Gives Up Its Title After Spotting a Scoring Error

The team in Oklahoma City forfeited its district championship earlier this year after the coach verified that a scoring error had incorrectly crowned them as winners.

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The girls high school basketball team of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies, displaying their districts trophy, before they returned it. Their coach, Brendan King, stood on the far right.
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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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Members of the progressive organization Bay Resistance 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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