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How India Is Embracing Trump’s Second Term
India appears to be welcoming Trump’s return to the White House, which may embolden nationalist leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Republicans Maintain House Majority, Clinching Trifecta of Government Control
In yet another blow to Democrats, Donald Trump will begin his presidency with a trifecta of Republican control in Washington.
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Protests Erupt in Paris Over Pro-Israel Gala Organized by Far-Right Figures
The demonstrations came on the eve of a high-stakes soccer match at France’s national stadium against the Israeli national team, overshadowed by tensions around the wars in the Middle East.
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What Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Pick for Israel Ambassador, Has Said About the Middle East
He has called for a “one-state solution” and doesn’t accept the term “Palestinians.”
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What to Know About Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
After his selection by Trump, Gaetz resigned from Congress, ending an ongoing ethics probe into allegations against him of child sex trafficking.
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Watch: Donald Trump’s New Administration So Far
Here are the key appointments, nominations, and staffing decisions announced by the Trump Administration.
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In Thune, Senate Republicans Picked The Most Anti-MAGA Leader In The Mix
John Thune was already one of the most powerful people in Washington
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Pete Hegseth’s Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War Crimes
Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.
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Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?
Health officials say risk remains low—but that could change.
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In Oval Office, Biden Welcomes Trump, Who Plans to Unwind Biden’s Presidency
Biden promised Trump a "smooth transition"
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Republican John Thune of South Dakota Is Elected the Next Senate Majority Leader
Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with Trump despite differences the two have had over the years.
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13 Things to Say When Someone Asks Why You Haven’t Had a Baby Yet
“Wow! I just haven't had the time—good thing you reminded me!”
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Emilia Pérez Is an Exuberant Ode to Human Possibility
Jacques Audiard’s operatic musical stars Zoe Saldaña's, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez in an act of radical imagination.
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Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA
Trump's first-term expansion in space will likely increase during his second presidency.
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Martyr!
In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was…
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Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of the violence he has endured. To better understand what Orvil is up against, Orange takes us back to 1864 to…
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Shanghailanders
Juli Min’s debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese French wife Eko, their precocious eldest daughters Yumi and Yoko, and the baby of the family, aspiring actress Kiko. To…
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The Black Utopians
What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It’s the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson’s The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores the history and meaning of Black freedom movements in the U.S. The topic is a personal one for the author,…
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The Mighty Red
Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This is much to the chagrin of Kismet’s superstitious truck-driver mom…
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just to get out of that miserable state.” In Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten lays out her journey to…
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The Wide Wide Sea
With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain James Cook. In recent years, Sides writes, the enigmatic British explorer and gifted cartographer has become, in some respects, the…
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Health and Safety
New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed antidepressant that “confirmed my love of stimulants,” Witt decided to try ayahuasca, a South American psychoactive beverage, for the first…
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Slaveroad
John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir, autofiction, history, and poetry, Slaveroad begins by tracing the journeys of people like William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved…
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My Friends
Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they got there. Decades earlier, Khaled, the book’s somber protagonist, found kinship with Hosam, an enigmatic writer and fellow Libyan dissident…
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I’m Incarcerated in California. Here’s What Prop 6 Not Passing Means for People Like Me
"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.
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Indonesian Volcanic Eruption Causes Flight Cancellations to and From Tourist Island of Bali
Thousands of people headed to and from the tourist island of Bali have reportedly been left stranded at airports due to volcanic and seismic activity.
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Who Is Pete Hegseth? Trump Taps Fox & Friends Co-Host to Run Defense Department
Hegseth, a Fox News personality and military veteran, has lobbied Trump to release servicemembers accused of war crimes.
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Why California Takes So Long to Count Votes—and How Florida Does It So Fast
And how Florida does it so fast.
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Jury Awards Abu Ghraib Detainees $42 Million, Holds Contractor Responsible
A jury awarded $42 million to former detainees of Abu Ghraib prison, holding a military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture.
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Trump Said He’d Veto a National Abortion Ban. Voters Should Hold Him to His Word
Voters must remind U.S. political leaders of the truth in this election: that abortion is more popular than they are.
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