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Conservative Rally Organizer Chased From Minneapolis Streets by Counterprotesters

A rally at City Hall was organized by a conservative influencer to draw attention to a fraud scandal in the state. Counterprotesters came out to oppose the effort.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Minneapolis has had near-daily protests since an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7.
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Mamdani Appoints New Parks Commissioner to Oversee NYC Green Spaces

The mayor announced Tricia Shimamura as the city’s new parks commissioner amid broad calls for more park funding.

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Tricia Shimamura, the Parks Department’s Manhattan borough commissioner since March 2024, will now be in charge of 30,000 acres of parkland across the city’s five boroughs.
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After Renee Good’s Killing, Some Conservatives Scorn Liberal Women

Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.

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A makeshift memorial near the site where Renee Good was shot and killed in Minneapolis.
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World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law

Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters by enabling conservation zones.

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The High Seas Treaty represents the first time that the vast majority of international waters, which lie outside of any country’s jurisdiction and cover nearly half the globe, can be protected.
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At Least $110,000 Worth of Pokémon Cards Stolen From New York Store

The robbery at the Poké Court on Wednesday was the latest in a string of thefts of high-value Pokémon trading cards.

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Three robbers burst into a Pokémon card shop in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and stole at least $110,000 worth of merchandise, the store owner said.
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Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere

Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

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John Furner, incoming chief executive of Walmart, left, and Sundar Pichai, Google’s leader, said at a conference in New York City this week that the two companies would use artificial intelligence to change how all businesses sold their products.
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Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

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Rhoda Levine in 1995 at a rehearsal for her production of Hindemith’s “Mathis Der Maler” at New York City Opera. She was acclaimed for clear, straightforward stagings of classics, rarities and new works.
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Big Oil’s Complicated Calculus for Investing in Venezuela

The industry has long prioritized projects with quick and reliable payback. Trump is pushing for a return to risk.

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A mural in Caracas depicts an oil pumpjack on a Venezuelan flag.
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How War With China Begins

Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

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A Taiwan fighter jet comes in for landing as China conducts military drills in the region.
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Prize Fight

In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.
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A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.

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Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium and uranium. He fills jugs of drinking water at Rocky Ford Food Market in Rocky Ford, Colo.
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