Flooding in Nigeria Flattens a Town, Killing at Least 56

Nigerian authorities said they had expected flooding as part of the rainy season but were surprised by the extent of the damage.

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Oil Companies Are Sued Over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave

Experts said it is the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming.

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A Fungus Devastated North American Bats. A New Species Could Deliver a Killer Blow.

Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada.

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How a Generation’s Struggle Led to a Record Surge in Homelessness

Late baby boomers have endured challenges that have left many economically vulnerable and dependent on parents for help. With their parents dying, they are ending up on the streets in growing numbers.

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Minnesota’s Green Crew Is Helping Teens Fight Climate Anxiety

Run by teenagers, for teenagers, the Green Crew helps students get their hands dirty with projects like tree planting, trail restoration and invasive species removal.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Draws Long Lines and Limited Seating

Without any livestreaming of the often graphic testimony, securing space inside the federal courtroom has meant long lines and long waits.

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‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’ Add to a Box Office Boomlet

Moviegoing in the United States and Canada has rebounded over the last two months. Theater owners credit a wider variety of releases.

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For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom.

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Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks

The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was arrested Friday after the man escaped the downtown Manhattan townhouse where the police say he had been held and assaulted.

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Can a Jazz Bassist Who Served Time on Terror Charges Revive His Career?

Tarik Shah, who played with jazz greats in his youth, spent years behind bars after pleading guilty to plotting to teach martial arts to Qaeda fighters. Now he is out and working on a comeback.

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Gaza Aid Deliveries Begin After Days of Delays

The U.N. said about 90 truckloads of supplies had begun to arrive at warehouses and other sites in the devastated territory. It was the first significant influx after a two-month Israeli blockade.

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India’s Security Forces Kill Dozens in a Bid to Crush Leftist Rebels

Military operations have intensified in recent weeks as the government has set a deadline of next year to defeat a decades-old Maoist insurgency.

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Vlastimil Hort, a Memorably Selfless Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 81

He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s greatest acts of sportsmanship.

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R.F.K. Jr. Has Unlikely Allies in His Drive to Limit Atrazine

An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts.

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Mohsen Mahdawi, Released From ICE Custody, Graduates From Columbia

Mr. Mahdawi, who led pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, was released from detention late last month and allowed to travel from Vermont to get his diploma.

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The Country’s Gone Country. What Gives?

American pop culture typically goes country when the White House goes Republican.

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At Mexico’s 2 Legal Gun Shops, a Conflicted View of Firearms Is on Display

While Mexicans have a right to own guns, they can only be legally bought at two military-run and tightly regulated stores, an effort to better control possession in a country awash with black market weapons.

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At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, Will Sordid Testimony Help Prove a Criminal Conspiracy?

Casandra Ventura’s description of Sean Comb’s sex marathons and abusive behavior is expected to provide the foundation for the prosecution’s racketeering case.

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The Courts’ Power

We explain an argument over judicial power at the Supreme Court.

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Who Took the ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo?

Questions about the credit for a famous photograph from the Vietnam War have divided the photojournalism community for months.

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Live by the Loomer, Die by the Loomer

Nasty MAGA infighting means trouble for Trump.

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Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss’s ‘Salome’

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

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Who Is Searching for Emmilee Risling?

One of the last places she was seen is an area known as End of Road. More than three years later, she’s the face of a crisis: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

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Pepe Mujica, the Former Uruguayan President, Removed the Pomp from Politics

The former Uruguayan president, who died on Tuesday, showed the value in world leaders living like their constituents.

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Cartel Family Members Cross Border in Apparent Deal With U.S., Official Says

Mexico’s security secretary confirmed reports that 17 family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders had entered the United States, likely as part of a deal with the Trump administration.

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An L.A. Doctor’s House Burned. Now He Treats the Fires’ Effects in Neighbors.

A new clinic, opened by a pulmonologist who lost his home in the Palisades blaze, is addressing the health issues developing among people exposed to the fires.

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Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm Made $198 Million Selling Stock as Profit Fell

Robyn Denholm sold Tesla stock in recent months while Elon Musk, the chief executive she oversees, worked for President Trump and alienated many car buyers.

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Cuomo Loses $622,000 in Campaign Funds for Coordinating With Super PAC

The New York City Campaign Finance Board withheld the funds after concluding that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo likely coordinated ad language with a super PAC.

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How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

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As Cease-Fire Seems to Hold, India and Pakistan Both Claim Victory

The Trump administration’s public descriptions of its role in the mediation seemed to touch some sensitive spots politically in India.

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Trump’s Cuts to Education Will Hit the Disabled the Hardest

President Trump’s efforts to eliminate the Department of Education and give its funding directly to the states is a nightmare for parents like myself.

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Pope Leo Is All Over the Map, and That’s Driving Some People Crazy

Neither MAGA nor woke, the new pontiff confounds political categories.

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Pope Leo, Peru and Me

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

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Remarrying in Retirement Can Mean Tricky Money Talks

People over 65 who remarry after a death or divorce can face thorny financial questions — especially when it comes to adult children and inheritances.

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Kendrick Lamar and SZA Bring Storms and Celebrations to the Stadium Stage

The rapper and R&B star are taking victory laps for smash hits and albums. But their co-headlining tour is still threaded with angst and reflection.

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What the World Needs From Pope Leo

Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.

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Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators

The means of Ed Martin’s ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington was his path out of power.

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Intelligence Agencies Increase Focus on Greenland, U.S. Officials Say

A growing number of reports about the island have been included in information circulated in the executive branch and Congress, officials said.

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Buddy Carter to Run for Georgia Senate, Seeking to Challenge Jon Ossoff

Representative Buddy Carter became the first Republican to enter the primary field to take on Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, one of the nation’s most vulnerable Democrats.

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A Kentucky Boy Mistakenly Orders Almost 70,000 Dum-Dums Lollipops

Holly LaFavers said she was eventually refunded $4,200 for her 8-year-old son’s order of Dum-Dums candy.

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Real ID Requirement Finally Comes to U.S. Airports

Many fliers showed up early for extra screening or brought passports, smoothing the rollout of the long-postponed requirements. Those who didn’t have Real IDs got a warning.

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Tesla Sales Fall in Germany and U.K. to Lowest Point in 2 Years

Demand for the U.S. auto maker’s vehicles slid amid stronger competition from Europe and China and rising anger at Elon Musk’s political forays.

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How Much Land Is Enough? N.Y.C. Ends Buying Spree of the Catskills.

Since 1997, New York City has purchased more than 1,800 properties to protect its drinking water. No longer.

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U.N. Court Drops Sudan’s Genocide Case Against U.A.E.

The International Court of Justice said it lacked jurisdiction after Sudan accused the United Arab Emirates of fueling genocide in the African country’s civil war.

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Cora Sue Collins, a Busy Child Actress in the 1930s, Dies at 98

She was in films with Greta Garbo, who became a friend, and Myrna Loy, Bette Davis and others. She ended her career after being sexually harassed.

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There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab

The patriotic response to today’s threat to American democracy is to oppose Trump soberly and strategically.

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April’s Storms Were Relentless. But the Rainwater Is Finally Going Away.

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live alongside it.

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Hikers Stumble Upon a Pile of Gold Coins, Igniting a Historical Hunt

The discovery of coins and jewelry in the Czech Republic worth up to $680,000 raises a tantalizing mystery for historians and amateur sleuths: Who buried the treasure?

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Justice Dept. Lawyers Say US Wants to Break up Google’s Ad Technology

In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Depart. indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

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100 Days of Trump Style

In this administration, looking the part is crucial to playing the part.

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Trump Resistance? It’s Not a Full Movement, but It’s Growing.

Despite lacking a unified message or strategy, Democrats, universities, law firms and other institutions are starting to push back harder against the administration.

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‘I Have Cancer,’ the TikTok Star Said. Then Came the Torrent of Hate.

Sydney Towle’s videos have drawn an enormous audience on TikTok, where her followers praise and support her. On Reddit, an army of skeptics was determined to paint her as a fraud.

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How Google’s Antitrust Case Could Upend the A.I. Race

A landmark antitrust lawsuit about the past has turned into a fight about the future.

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The One Big Reason Canada’s Liberals Won

Canada’s Liberals came back from a huge disadvantage in the polls, securing a rare fourth term in power, for one big reason. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Canada bureau chief for The New York Times, explains why the Liberals and Mark Carney won, and the challenge they face right now.

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Kangaroo Startles Drivers on an Alabama Interstate

Sheila, a local man’s pet, escaped her enclosure and decided to hit the road.

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Google’s Chief Says Breakup Proposal Would Hobble Business

Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government’s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.

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On California’s State Bar Exam, More Questions Than Answers

The State Bar of California’s new exam has been rife with problems, an A.I. controversy and now the likelihood of delayed results.

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