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Palestinian Voices Absent from U.S.-Run Center Planning Gaza’s Future

U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in central Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.

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U.S. military personnel and other officials monitor screens displaying imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour of the new Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, on Monday.
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House Is Expected to Vote on Tuesday to Release Epstein Files

Ahead of what was likely to be a unanimous House vote that Republican leaders had toiled to avoid, G.O.P. lawmakers embraced the Epstein transparency bill.

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Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, center, at the Capitol last week. “It’s going to be an important vote to continue to show the transparency that we’ve delivered,” he said.
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House Democrats Press for Vote to Bar Military Action in Venezuela

The effort would invoke the War Powers Act, which expedites action on measures limiting the president’s war-making authority. It faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.

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Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, is leading the effort in the House.
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When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest

Republicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles serves more Medicaid patients in its emergency department than any other hospital in California.
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Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant

The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.

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Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline project near Cannonball, N.D., in September 2016. Earlier this year a court found Greenpeace liable for its role in demonstrations there.
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A City Is Broke. Can a Billionaire’s Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance?

Suisun City has tried to revive its fortunes for years. The latest idea: Annex land for California Forever, a tech-billionaire-funded new city plan north of San Francisco.

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Suisun City, Calif., has ping-ponged between the threat of insolvency and revitalization plans that tend to fizzle out.
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Poor Countries Got $1 Trillion From China. So Did Rich Ones.

Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.

© Nathan Howard for The New York Times

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va. Some of China’s financing in the United States has been in the form of lines of credit to big companies like Amazon.
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Too Powerful to Ignore, Saudi Prince Returns to Washington’s Embrace

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to visit the White House on Tuesday for the first time since 2018, when the killing of a journalist by Saudi agents made him a pariah.

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President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, the capital, in May in Mr. Trump’s first major trip abroad of his second term.
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Tanzania: What to Know About the Post-Election Violence

Post-election violence has tarnished the country’s reputation for stability, and the crackdown may have backfired on the government, as officials in Washington call for a re-examination of U.S. ties.

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Protesters help an injured demonstrator near burning barricades amid clashes in Dar es Salaam on Oct. 29, during Tanzania’s presidential election.
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Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View

Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.

Jia Tianlian tending his tiny plot of land in Dazhai, a village in northern China that Mao Zedong once hailed as a model for the nation. In the background are residential buildings from the “people’s commune” of that era.
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After Climate Push, Energy Companies Return to Fossil Fuels in Europe

Recent oil and gas deals in Europe suggest that the growing demand for energy may be leading companies to adopt a more pragmatic approach.

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TotalEnergies uses facilities like gas-fired power plants and this battery farm on the site of a closed refinery near Dunkirk, France, to balance the power grid.
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Trump Says America Is in ‘Golden Age,’ Straining to Address Affordability

Speaking at a gathering of McDonald’s franchise owners and operators, the president boasted that he had “normalized” inflation.

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In his remarks at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday in Washington, President Trump made only fleeting reference to the issue of beef prices, after boasting about getting his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to eat a Big Mac.
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Trump Says U.S. Will Sell F-35s to Saudis, Despite Pentagon Concerns

The president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that he planned to sell the advanced fighter jets to Riyadh.

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President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, watch an F-35 fighter jet during a demonstration off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month.
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Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails

New emails showed that Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

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Mr. Summers, a former treasury secretary, had sought money from Mr. Epstein for a poetry foundation led by his wife, Elisa New, an emerita Harvard literature professor.
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