Former Representative Barbara Lee, a Bay Area progressive known for her lonely opposition to the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and for her rise within the House’s Democratic leadership, on Wednesday joined the race for mayor of Oakland, Calif. She made the announcement in a video on social media just days after […]
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Fani T. Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday to put her back on the Trump election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., petitioned the state’s high court to review a recent decision disqualifying her from prosecuting President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies over efforts to keep him […]
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Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok for a year following the stabbing death of a teenager by another one after the two quarreled online. “Either TikTok protects the […]
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, spoke on Wednesday in Paris of the challenges already posed to U.S. alliances by the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House, and said they believed that an American takeover of Greenland was an impossible idea. But they also asserted […]
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Some 4.5 billion years ago, the dwarf planet Pluto was suddenly joined by a companion. For a very brief period — perhaps only hours — they danced as if arm in arm before gently separating, a grand do-si-do that resulted in Pluto and its quintet of moons orbiting the sun together today. Astronomers have long […]
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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural committee is no longer selling tickets for major donors to attend his swearing-in and accompanying private events in Washington, according to five people briefed on the conversations. The committee has raised over $170 million, according to the people, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to share internal […]
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, not long before Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in New York in a case arising from hush money payments. Justice Alito said the call was a routine job reference for a former law […]
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President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday blamed California’s Democratic governor for the failure to contain fires engulfing parts of the Los Angeles area, turning a still-evolving natural disaster into a political opportunity and accusing the state’s government of letting environmental policies run amok. In a post on his social media site, Mr. Trump mocked Gov. […]
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Flames were roaring near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles when Marcia Horowitz and her husband rushed to their car, hoping for a quick escape eastward out of the fire zone. But a police officer along the route directed them to head west along Sunset Boulevard, where the couple found themselves stuck in gridlock. […]
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The New England Patriots’ coaching staff came out of its Week 14 bye feeling good. Sure, the team had suffered through a six-game losing streak and had a 3-10 record, but there was optimism that the final stretch of the season would go well. Rookie Drake Maye was fully entrenched as the starting quarterback, and […]
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