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Trump Administration Lifts Some Food Tariffs in Effort to Ease Prices

It is walking back levies on imports including beef and coffee in what critics say is an admission that tariffs raised prices in the first place.

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Though President Trump campaigned on lowering the price of groceries, concerns about affordability helped propel Democrats to win elections across the country last week.
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Southern California Storm Forecast to Bring Heavy Rain and Flood Risk

An unusually powerful storm has prompted some evacuation orders before heavy rain on Saturday.

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After a first wave of lighter rain on Friday, Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California will see heavier rain begin late Friday night and continue through Saturday.
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Trump Pulls Nominee for Top I.R.S. Lawyer

President Trump’s announcement came after the nominee, Donald L. Korb, came under fire from the far-right activist Laura Loomer on social media.

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Donald L. Korb, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol in September.
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Amid Trump’s Deportation Push, More Families Are Being Torn Apart

Maribel Lopez was hastily deported to Guatemala despite a pending asylum appeal, leaving behind a toddler. Her case highlights a growing pattern of speedy deportations.

Siblings Milton and Anallely Lopez saying goodbye to their brother, Jorge, 2, who they’ve been caring for since their mother was deported, as they leave for an I.C.E. check-in in Syracuse, N.Y.
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Trump Plan Could Limit Green Cards for Immigrants From Travel Ban Countries

The policy change is a major expansion of the administration’s push to crack down on immigration from countries that it says lack sufficient screening and vetting abilities.

© Graham Dickie/The New York Times

The policy change would make it more challenging for those who arrived in the United States before the travel ban to remain.
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Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs

Under the plan, the company will dissolve and its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay as much as $7 billion of their personal fortune to states, localities, tribes and others harmed in the opioid crisis.

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The bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, is the largest settlement with a single pharmaceutical company throughout years of the national opioid litigation.
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At U.N. Security Council, Russia Counters Trump Gaza Plan With Its Own

The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.

© Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Gaza City on Friday. The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point American plan annexed.
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Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Pampered in Prison?

Maybe there’s an innocent explanation for all the privileges she’s being accorded, but I can’t think of one.

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A tableau outside the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred on Aug 1.
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Trump Plan Could Limit Green Cards for Immigrants From Travel Ban Countries

The policy change is a major expansion of the administration’s push to crack down on immigration from countries that it says lack sufficient screening and vetting abilities.

© Graham Dickie/The New York Times

The policy change would make it more challenging for those who arrived in the United States before the travel ban to remain.
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Boston University Student Attacked Online Over Claim He Called ICE on Workers

The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.

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A lawyer for the workers said ICE agents rounded up nine people at the Allston Car Wash in Boston.
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Former U.Va. President Details Justice Department Pressure That Led to Ouster

In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”

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“The call for my resignation, right until the end, seemed so outlandish as not to be entirely believable,” James E. Ryan, former president of the University of Virginia, said in a letter on Friday.
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U.S. Envoy Said to Be Planning to Meet With Senior Hamas Official

An in-person encounter between Steve Witkoff and Khalil al-Hayya would signal the Trump administration’s interest in keeping a direct line of communication with the group.

© Nathan Howard for The New York Times

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy for peace missions, speaking at a military briefing in Israel last month.
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