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Secret Files in Election Case Show How Judges Limited Trump’s Privilege

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 8:25pm
The partly unsealed rulings, orders and transcripts open a window on a momentous battle over grand jury testimony that played out in secret, creating important precedents about executive privilege.
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Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to End Washington Post Endorsements

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 8:21pm
Mr. Bezos, the newspaper’s owner, said that presidential endorsements “create a perception of bias” and that “my views here are, in fact, principled.”
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Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Resume, Overshadowed by U.S. Election

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 7:44pm
Envoys from Israel, Egypt, the United States and Qatar took part in the negotiations, but no agreements are expected until American voters choose their next president.
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Anita Hill: Kamala Harris and the Power of Dignity

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 7:24pm
The insults hurled at Ms. Harris are a reminder of how Republican senators tried to shame me when I challenged Clarence Thomas’s fitness.
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MAGA Unchained in Madison Square Garden

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 7:02pm
Trump’s big rally featured unadulterated racism and more talk of “enemies from within.”
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Rally Backlash Puts Trump on the Defensive

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 6:58pm
Also, North Korean troops were deployed to help Russian forces. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
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Iran Executes Jamshid Sharmahd, German-Iranian Opponent Who Lived in U.S.

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 6:39pm
Jamshid Sharmahd had been accused of helping in a deadly terrorist bombing in 2008. Another Iranian prisoner, the Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, is in the hospital.
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A Caller Told 911 a Bear Had Chased Him Off a Cliff. The Police Say It Was Murder.

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 6:16pm
The sheriff in a rural Tennessee county said his office is searching for a man who used a stolen identity to pose as a victim.
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Steve Mariotti, Whose Trauma Led Him to Help Youths at Risk, Dies at 71

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 5:13pm
After he was mugged, he took a therapist’s advice to work with “difficult students at a difficult school.” They ignored him until the lessons turned to business.
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U.S. Officials Sweep Troubled Brooklyn Prison Where 2 Were Killed

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 4:32pm
Two inmates were fatally stabbed this summer at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center, where Sean Combs is awaiting trial in his sex-trafficking case.
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The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 3:51pm
The presidential candidate’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often bucked a patriarchal lab culture.
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Who Is Tony Hinchcliffe, the Trump Rally Comedian Criticized for Racist Comments?

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 3:22pm
Known for insult-style comedy, he took aim at Latinos, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
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At Madison Square Garden, Trump Deals a MAGA Dopamine Rush

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 3:04pm
He was clearly recalibrating what it takes to hook his addicted masses.
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Under Trump or Harris, U.S. Asylum Curbs Are Likely to Endure

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 3:03pm
As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable.
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Israel’s Knesset to Consider Bills on Conscription, UNRWA and More: What to Know

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 2:28pm
Israel’s Knesset opened its winter session on Monday against a backdrop of war in Gaza and Lebanon and with some contentious matters on the agenda.
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The Mysterious ‘Ketamine Queen’ at the Center of the Matthew Perry Case

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 2:24pm
One year after Mr. Perry’s death, Jasveen Sangha is in jail awaiting trial on charges that she sold him the ketamine that killed him.
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Ukraine Braces for Russian Assault in Kursk Using North Korean Troops

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 2:14pm
Several thousand North Korean soldiers have arrived in Russia’s western Kursk region, where they are expected to support Moscow’s efforts to dislodge invading Ukrainian forces.
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Ukraine Braces for Russian Assault in Kursk Using North Korean Troops

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 2:14pm
Several thousand North Korean soldiers have arrived in Russia’s western Kursk region, where they are expected to support Moscow’s efforts to dislodge invading Ukrainian forces.
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He Was 5 When a Trump Immigration Policy Separated His Family. He Hasn’t Forgotten.

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 1:47pm
Seven years after a Trump policy ruptured his family and landed him in foster care, José is a star student. But he is still scarred. “I don’t trust anyone.”
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Have Paychecks Kept Up With the Cost of Living?

Mon, 10/28/2024 - 1:33pm
On average, pay has risen faster than prices in recent years. But the overall picture is complicated — and it’s not just facts versus “vibes.”
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