The mystery behind an unknown illness that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo just 48 hours after they first showed symptoms deepened after the World Health Organization on Friday offered a new theory that seemingly contradicts African medical experts. At least 60 people have died and more than 1,000 have been sickened […]
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One of the most surreal moments of Friday’s Oval Office showdown between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine came at the very end. After all the shouting and the saber-rattling and the lecturing and the pleading and the politicking had ceased, the American president shifted a little in his seat and shared an […]
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The F.B.I. on Friday gave President Trump the boxes of materials the bureau had seized during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2022, the White House announced. Files that investigators said contained classified material were among the thousands of items taken in the search, and they had formed the central evidence in […]
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After five weeks in which President Trump made clear his determination to scrap America’s traditional sources of power — its alliances among like-minded democracies — and return the country to an era of raw great-power negotiations, he left one question hanging: How far would he go in sacrificing Ukraine to his vision? The remarkable shouting […]
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A battered pink house on the coast of Massachusetts, beloved by generations of artists and romantics, will be torn down by the federal government in March, ending a yearslong fight to save it. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which owns the house, confirmed the plan on Friday. It came four months after Gov. Maura […]
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President Trump’s escalating initiative to drastically cut the federal work force has reached the Social Security Administration, a crucial program that keeps millions of older Americans out of poverty, which said on Friday that it would reduce its head count by more than 12 percent. The Social Security Administration, which sends about 73 million retired […]
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