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Facing Challenge From Lander, Dan Goldman Prepares to Defend His Seat

Mr. Goldman, a Democrat from New York City, faces a stiff primary battle that could turn on Gaza and how to fight President Trump.

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Representative Daniel Goldman, who is running for a third term in Congress, sat for an expansive interview over lunch in Manhattan.
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Why Israel Is Divided Over How to Investigate Oct. 7 Failures

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a commission with members chosen in a way that departs from existing law.

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A memorial in 2025 on the grounds of the Nova music festival, which was attacked by Hamas and other militants on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Why Trump Refused to Back Venezuela’s Machado: Fears of Chaos, and Fraying Ties

U.S. intelligence suggested María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, would struggle to lead the government. But her relationship with Trump officials had been souring for months.

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The opposition leader María Corina Machado and her surrogate presidential candidate, Edmundo González, at a rally in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, in 2024.
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The Great Unraveling Has Begun

As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.

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Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States

The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

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A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman cited “massive amounts of fraud” as the reason for the freeze, but did not provide evidence of fraud in four of the states.
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Venezuela Braces for Economic Collapse From U.S. Blockade on Oil Exports

Venezuela could lose the bulk of its oil export revenues this year if the U.S. blockade stays in place, according to internal government estimates, a scenario that would set off a humanitarian crisis.

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Employees outside Venezuela’s state oil company, known as PDVSA, in Caracas in October.
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Zelensky’s Assessment Darkens as Europeans Gather to Talk Peace

With Russia still seen as unlikely to stop fighting, the Ukrainian leader’s tone has shifted from upbeat to cautionary.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting of national security advisers of European countries in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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At Refugee Camps, Most Birthdays Fall on New Year’s

When an exodus of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh a decade ago, the United Nations recorded many of their birthdays as Jan. 1. The date serves as a reminder of a lost identity.

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Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh in 2017.
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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

In a CNN interview, the Trump aide also echoed the president’s intent to run Venezuela as he laid out a case for the United States to control weaker states by flexing its military might.

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Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, at the White House last year. Mr. Miller’s remarks were part of a broader rhetorical push in interviews to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order.
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Trump’s Post About Slain Minnesota Lawmaker Dismays Her Children

The son and daughter of Melissa and Mark Hortman have asked the president to remove a social media post promoting a conspiracy theory about the assassination.

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Sophie and Colin Hortman stood behind the caskets of their parents, Mark and Melissa Hortman, after a funeral service in Minneapolis in June.
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Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine

The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

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In 2019, Fiona Hill told a Congressional hearing that the Russians “were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine.”
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Mamdani Chooses a Bernie Sanders Aide as His Communications Director

Anna Bahr, who leads communications for the Vermont senator and worked on his presidential campaign, is the latest appointee to a high-profile role in the Mamdani administration.

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Anna Bahr, center, the communications director for Senator Bernie Sanders, left, will leave his office to join the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right.
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Trump’s Foray Into Venezuela Could Embolden Russia’s and China’s Own Aggression

While both countries were allied with Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. attack could give them justification to use force in other spheres, analysts said.

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President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin last May. China and Russia both have close ties to Nicolás Maduro.
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Appeals Court Upholds Prohibition on Trump’s Medical Research Cuts

The ruling on Monday upheld a lower court’s judgment in April that the Trump administration could not drastically slash funding from the National Institutes of Health.

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A federal court of appeals ruled that the Trump administration could not cut federal funding given out by the National Institutes of Health.
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