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The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.

Actors surrounded Brandon Beach, the U.S. treasurer, and Kristie McNally, the Mint’s acting secretary, at a coin unveiling this month at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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Chile Votes in Presidential Runoff

Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast are facing off on Sunday in a deeply polarized election marked by concerns over security and immigration.
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Washington Residents Return Home to Extensive Flood Damage

After heavy rains swelled rivers and flooded neighborhoods in northern Washington, residents returned to soggy homes caked in mud. Many tried to salvage what they could.

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Gwendolyn Corley began cleaning up her home after the historic flooding of the nearby Skagit River hit her community of Hamilton, Wash.
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How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office.

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A portrait array in the lobby of the Securities and Exchange Commission showing President Trump and Vice President JD Vance; its chairman, Paul S. Atkins; and Commissioners Hester M. Peirce, Caroline A. Crenshaw and Mark T. Uyeda.
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The Army Made a Blind Black Soldier a Surrogate for Robert E. Lee

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.

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Pvt. Fitz Lee in 1899, with his Medal of Honor on his jacket.
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What We Know About the American Troops in Syria

The killing of three Americans during what was said to be a counterterrorism operation in central Syria served as a reminder that U.S. troops are still operating in the country.

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U.S. Army soldiers gather before a patrol from a remote combat outpost in northeastern Syria in 2021.
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AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia

Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning.

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The leaders of the AfD, Tino Chrupalla, front left, and Alice Weidel, front center, have defended the party against accusations of compromising national security.
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What We Know About the Deadly Shooting at Brown University

Two people were killed and nine others injured during an attack on the Rhode Island campus. Officials were searching early Sunday for a gunman suspected in the shooting.

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The police outside an entrance to Brown University in Providence, R.I., after a deadly shooting on Saturday.
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Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday

While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.

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President Trump deployed about 4,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June.
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Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Music Producer and Father of Selena, Dies at 86

As a teenager, he hoped to make it big in the Tejano music world. He realized that dream through his daughter.

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Abraham Quintanilla Jr. in 2017. With his daughter Selena doing vocals, he turned his small family band into a Grammy-winning act, and Selena became known as the queen of Tejano music.
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Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions

The release of the prisoners, including a Nobel laureate and two opposition leaders, was part of a monthslong rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader, welcoming Ales Bialiatski, a political activist released by Belarus, as he arrived Saturday at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in September, after signing an agreement that pledged to extend research collaborations and deepen partnerships in the tech industry.
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