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113-Year-Old Death Valley Salt Tram Tower Toppled by Driver Stuck in Mud A traveler used the tower as an anchor to try to pull out a pickup that was stuck in mud at the national park in California.nytimes.com
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Slovak Prime Minister Is Improving After Second Operation, Official Says The suspect in the shooting of the prime minister, Robert Fico, appeared before a judge, who ordered that he would remain in custody until he is charged and tried.nytimes.com
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Why the Equal Rights Amendment Is Again a Hot Topic in New York The proposed amendment to the State Constitution has become a divisive culture-war issue that encompasses abortion, discrimination and transgender athletes.nytimes.com
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How Companies Dodge Tariffs Protectionist trade policies are popular on both the left and right. But some economists say they’re likely to backfire.nytimes.com
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Russia Presses Attacks in Northeast Ukraine, Seeking Buffer Zone on Border Advances by Russian forces have raised fears they could bring their artillery in range of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.nytimes.com
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The Forever Trial How the sister of one victim of the Sept. 11 attacks is navigating the trial of the men accused of orchestrating it.nytimes.com
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Why the Manhattan Trial Is Probably Helping Trump The casual observer may see persecution, not just prosecution.nytimes.com
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Invading Rafah Doesn’t Help Israel Biden is supporting Israel by trying to restrain it.nytimes.com
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The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out “Why can’t everybody live in my world, in the middle,” he says, “where we’re not nuts?”nytimes.com
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It Is Inexcusable How Judge Cannon Is Delaying the Trump Documents Case She is utterly failing to keep the case moving along in a fair but timely manner.nytimes.com
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Queen of the Book Club Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.nytimes.com
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Dabney Coleman: Where to Stream His Best Movies and TV Shows Coleman’s characters frequently displayed the kind of antagonistic demeanor familiar to anyone who has ever dealt with a bad boss or a disgruntled customer.nytimes.com
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Trump Has Long Prized Certain Tactics. His Trial Has Highlighted Them. The former president’s criminal trial has underscored what he values: loyalty, beauty, press coverage and using allies as bullies.nytimes.com
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Xi Jinping Embracing Vladimir Putin in Defiance of the West Western leaders looking for signs that the Chinese leader used his influence on President Vladimir V. Putin to end the war in Ukraine are likely to be disappointed.nytimes.com
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Texas Family Finally Learns Fate of Man Held in Syria Majd Kamalmaz disappeared in Syria in early 2017. American officials recently disclosed to his family that they had intelligence indicating that he was dead.nytimes.com
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A Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows U.A.W.’s Southern Campaign After Mercedes workers voted against joining the United Automobile Workers, the union will have less momentum as it campaigns to organize Southern factories.nytimes.com
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In His Beloved Philadelphia, Biden Faces Wariness From Black Voters Even in the president’s favorite political stomping ground, his standing has slipped with Democrats who will be vital to a repeat victory, interviews with nearly two dozen Black voters showed.nytimes.com
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Can Biden Recapture Lightning in a Bottle in Georgia? His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia’s emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a much different climate there.nytimes.com
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Russians Poured Over Ukraine’s Border. There Was Little to Stop Them. The stunning incursion into the Kharkiv Region lays bare the challenges facing Ukraine’s weary and thinly stretched forces as Russia ramps up its summer offensive.nytimes.com
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What Caitlin Clark’s Arrival Could Mean for WNBA’s Business Clark’s arrival has many betting on the W.N.B.A.’s success. But certain structural disadvantages persist, including how much the players earn.nytimes.com
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What’s BlackRock Without Larry Fink? Shareholders Fret About Future. Investors in the world’s biggest asset manager are asking how much more room it has to grow and who will drive that growth once its chief executive retires.nytimes.com
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Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.nytimes.com
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Mexico City Has Long Thirsted for Water. The Crisis Is Worsening. A system of dams and canals may soon be unable to provide water to one of the world’s largest cities, a confluence of unchecked growth, crumbling infrastructure and a changing climate.nytimes.com
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The Night That Sotheby’s Was Crypto-Punked The auction that was supposed to be an art world coming-out party for NFTs instead exposed the instability at the heart of the crypto world.nytimes.com
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This Is Hot Slaw. And Cleveland, Tenn., Wants You to Love It, Too. A spicy, yellow dollop of cabbage slaw became Tennessee’s first official state food — then everyone had to learn what it was.nytimes.com
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Under Israeli Bombs, a Wartime Economy Emerges in Gaza Amid the destruction, a marketplace of survival has arisen focused on the basics: food, shelter and money.nytimes.com
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Trials of Trump and Menendez in Manhattan Create Unprecedented Court Drama Manhattan is playing host to two of the biggest political trials in American history. The courthouses are just 500 feet apart.nytimes.com
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Trump’s New York Trial: Where Page Six Meets ‘12 Angry Men’ The machinery of celebrity is being laid bare in a Manhattan courtroom amid the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.nytimes.com
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Being Muslim in Modi’s India Families grapple with anguish and isolation as they try to raise their children in a country that increasingly questions their very identity.nytimes.com
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Slovakian Charged in Shooting ‘Was Against Everything’ People who know the suspect described a ‘weird and angry’ loner who wrote erotic poetry, and whose resentments ranged across the political spectrum.nytimes.com