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Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws

The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.

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Counting absentee ballots at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., in 2023.
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Withhold Full SNAP Funding

A ruling late Sunday offered a possible reprieve for people who receive assistance from the program known as SNAP.

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Outside a food pantry in New York last month. Roughly 42 million people depend on federal benefits to purchase groceries.
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U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

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The Gerald R. Ford, the United States’ largest and newest aircraft carrier, anchored in the Bay of Palma in Spain last month. It is set to arrive in the Caribbean as soon as this week.
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What to Know About the BBC Resignations and Turmoil Over a Trump Speech Edit

After days of pressure, two top executives quit after a memo by a former adviser said that the public broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump.

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The BBC office, known as Broadcasting House, in London. The BBC’s output is vast, including global news, drama series and sports.
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Bernie Sanders Endorses Peggy Flanagan for Senate in Minnesota

Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.

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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent, is still one of the most popular politicians among Democratic voters, and remains determined to reshape the party in his image.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, Former French President, Is Released From Prison Pending Appeal

Nicolas Sarkozy served about three weeks of a five-year prison sentence for his conviction in a campaign finance scandal.

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Nicolas Sarkozy, a French former president, last month. He was found guilty of conspiring to seek funding for a 2007 presidential campaign from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
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Democrats Defect on the Shutdown

Congress moved closer to ending the government shutdown. We explain what’s happening.

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On Capitol Hill.
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Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election

The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.

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Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, at a commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in September.
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Syria’s President to Meet Trump at White House for First Time

The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.

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President Ahmed al-Shara in Damascus, Syria, in April. He led a rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad last year.
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F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It

The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.

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Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, last month. Mr. Patel’s unorthodox approach to running the bureau has alarmed international allies.
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Syria al-Shara al-Baghdadi Trump

In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of terror group Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.

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Rashid Muhammad Kaseer, a resident of Barisha, Syria, where American commandos killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, six years ago.
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Democrat’s Win May Upend a Conservative Push in Virginia Universities

Supporters of Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor-elect, say they expect her to reverse efforts to impose conservative priorities on the state’s prestigious public university system.

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The Democrat chosen by Virginia voters to be their next governor, Abigail Spanberger, will have a chance to make significant changes in the boards that oversee the state’s public universities.
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Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.

“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself,” said Cole Leinbach, a librarian in Tieton, Wash. “So what does it mean if that goes away?”
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