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Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band A mainstay of the pizza and arcade chain, by turns endearing and creepy, will be phased out by year’s end at all but two locations. We visited one of them.nytimes.com
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A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the proudly Jewish leader of a battleground state, has dived headfirst into subjects that have wrenched apart his party.nytimes.com
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Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question. Leading Republicans have refused to say flatly that they will accept the outcome of the presidential election if Donald Trump loses.nytimes.com
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Will an Authoritarian Government in Venezuela Allow a Fair Election? President Nicolás Maduro has held on to power by holding sham elections. In July he will run again, but would he willingly cede power?nytimes.com
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Why Antiwar Protests Haven’t Flared Up at Black Colleges Like Morehouse The White House appears anxious about President Biden’s coming speech at Morehouse College. But for complex reasons, such campuses have had far less visible Gaza tensions.nytimes.com
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Trump Has Long Been Known as a Micromanager. Prosecutors Are Using It Against Him. Witnesses have described the former president monitoring the minutiae of his business, a portrait prosecutors are drawing to help convince the jury that he couldn’t have helped but oversee a hush-money payment to avoid a damaging story.nytimes.com
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Isolated and Defiant, Israel Vows to ‘Stand Alone’ in War on Hamas As the death toll in Gaza has risen, countries have turned their backs on Israel. The consequences of those desertions, from security to economics, risk turning Israel into a pariah.nytimes.com
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Can You Make Your Investment Portfolio Reflect Your Values? Forget about endowments and their holdings and divestment for a minute. What do you stand for, and how can you make your portfolio reflect that?nytimes.com
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Burkina Faso Accused of Massacring Civilians Witnesses and human rights groups claim the West African country’s military killed more than 220 people, including women and children, in February. It was neither a mistake nor a one-off, they say.nytimes.com
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A Brief History of the 2,000-Pound Bombs Central to U.S.-Israeli Tensions The one-ton Mark 84 bomb was designed shortly after World War II. Adding guidance kits has kept it in use for more than 70 years.nytimes.com
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The ‘Betches’ Got Rich. So What’s Next? The women’s media company, which started as a raunchy college blog, is a rare financial success story — and on the White House’s radar. Now, it’s wrestling with how to grow up alongside its readers.nytimes.com
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Freshmen Democrats Work to Turn Biden Impeachment Effort on Its Head A crop of novice lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee has countered Republicans’ allegations against President Biden with attention-grabbing charges of their own.nytimes.com
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British Colleges Are Handling Protests Differently. Will It Pay Off? University leaders have so far adopted a more permissive attitude to pro-Palestinian encampments than their U.S. counterparts. Here’s why.nytimes.com
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U.S.C. Valedictorian Graduates Without a Speech, but With Cheers Asna Tabassum, whose speech was canceled by University of Southern California administrators, received plenty of support at an engineering school ceremony.nytimes.com
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Inside Miss USA Turmoil: A Leaked Letter and String of Resignations Noelia Voigt’s announcement this week that she was stepping down as Miss USA set off a string of departures and prompted larger questions about the inner workings of the organization.nytimes.com
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U.S. Defends U.N. Voting ‘No’ on Palestinian Membership The United States among a handful of holdouts on the vote, which was widely seen as a rebuke of the Americans and Israel.nytimes.com
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Barron Trump Will Not Be a Florida Delegate at the GOP Convention Two days after the Florida Republican Party selected Barron, 18, to be an at-large delegate, Melania Trump’s office said he “regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.”nytimes.com
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What We Know About Where Aid Can Enter Gaza A look at the humanitarian assistance getting into the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea.nytimes.com
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5 Takeaways From Trump’s Hush-Money Trial The fourth week of the trial interspersed intense and emotional testimony with talk of documents and chains of custody.nytimes.com
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Aiming for Rosier Ties, Xi Wraps Up Europe Visit The red carpet receptions China’s leader received in France, Serbia and Hungary helped recast a strained relationship with the continent.nytimes.com
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Target Scales Back Pride Month Displays After Last Year’s Backlash It said Pride merchandise would be available on its website and in select stores next month. In 2023, the retailer featured the goods widely.nytimes.com
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What Did P.S.G.’s Money Buy? The club’s superstar era cost billions and upended European soccer. But after another Champions League failure and Friday’s confirmation that Kylian Mbappé will leave, what was it all for?nytimes.com
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Jim Simons, Math Genius Who Conquered Wall Street, Dies at 86 Using advanced computers, he went from M.I.T. professor to multibillionaire. His Medallion fund had 66 percent average annual returns for decades.nytimes.com
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Is There a Post-Religious Right? A taxonomy of post-religious conservatisms.nytimes.com
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People Leaving Rafah Describe Fearful Flight From Israeli Assaults ‘We feel depressed and so exhausted from repeating the same suffering,’ one mother of 11 said.nytimes.com
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A Severe Solar Storm Hitting Earth May Make Northern Lights: What to Know Officials warned of potential blackouts or interference with navigation and communication systems this weekend, as well as northern lights as far south as Northern California or Alabama.nytimes.com
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Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company’s most significant reorganization in a decade.nytimes.com
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U.S. Military’s Plea to Israel: Do More to Protect Gazans in War Zone The Biden administration says it is still waiting to see a detailed plan for how Israeli forces plan to evacuate civilians from the city of Rafah.nytimes.com
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Biden Campaign Courts Wealthy Donors on West Coast Fund-Raising Trip The trip was a second major swing through California for the Biden campaign, and attracted a host of wealthy tech executives.nytimes.com
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Mayor Eric Adams Arrives in Rome Ahead of a Papal Visit New York City’s mayor will attend a conference on peace during a three-day trip to Rome and the Vatican, where he is expected to meet Pope Francis.nytimes.com