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U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List

The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

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A camp for internally displaced people in Somalia in September. It is one of the countries on the travel ban list, which includes some of the poorest and most unstable nations in the world.
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Trump Frees Former President of Honduras

Plus, C.D.C. advisers are set to change the vaccine schedule. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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Juan Orlando Hernández at the U.N. in 2019.
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Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold SNAP Funding From Democratic States

The latest threat to SNAP funding came after weeks of confusion over the status of benefits during the government shutdown.

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Brooke L. Rollins, the agriculture secretary, threatened to withhold food assistance funding from more than 20 Democratic-led states.
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Cancer-Detecting Blood Tests Are on the Rise. Do They Work?

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.

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William Hill, a firefighter in Brockton, Mass., was diagnosed with cancer after taking an experimental blood test.
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University of Oklahoma Instructor on Leave After Failing Student’s Gender Essay

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment.

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Responding to a scholarly article that discussed teasing as a way to enforce gender norms, the University of Oklahoma student wrote, “I do not necessarily see this as a problem.”
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Ayanna Pressley Won’t Challenge Markey for Senate in Massachusetts

Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.

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Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts has attracted a national following among progressives.
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Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.

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Eugene Hasenfus after he was captured by Sandinista soldiers in October 1986. His plane ferrying supplies to right-wing rebels in Nicaragua had been shot down. Parachuting to safety, he was the only crewman to survive.
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Like Fancy Japanese Toilets? You’ll Love the Sound of This.

Devices that conceal unwanted noises are the next frontier in advanced toilet technology. Would you like some peaceful birdsong, or perhaps a burst of artillery fire?

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Donna Burke, who moved to Japan from Australia in 1996, has been such a fan of bathroom noise-concealing technology that she developed her own device, the Royal Flushh.
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Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders

The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.

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Elon Musk’s foundation gave $370 million last year to a nonprofit in Texas led by his top aide that operates an elementary school in a rural area where many of Mr. Musk’s employees live.
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Prosecutors Drop Murder Case Against Man Who Served More Than 25 Years

James Pugh, one of two men originally convicted in the savage killing of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo in 1993, said all along that he was innocent.

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“Her opinion is all I really care about,” James Pugh said of Lisa Payne, the victim’s daughter. “I could care less about anyone else’s. I just want her to be at peace.”
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In Photos and Video: Devastating Floods Swamp South Asia

Images of the destruction caused by storms that have torn through South and Southeast Asia.

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Wading through a street in Wellampitiya, on the outskirts of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, in November.
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Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon

Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

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Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, at the U.N. General Assembly in 2018.
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Venezuela Accepts Migrant Repatriation Flight From U.S. Amid Airspace Tensions

The flight’s approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.”

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Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, during a speech in November.
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