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index.feed.received.today — 7 mars 2025NYT

Unvaccinated New Mexico Resident Dies of Suspected Measles

7 mars 2025 à 00:52
The patient tested positive for the infection, but state health officials could not confirm that it was the cause of death.

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Recent measles cases in New Mexico have not officially been connected to the ongoing Texas outbreak, but officials have said a link is “suspected.”

Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Law Firms With Order Targeting Perkins Coie

6 mars 2025 à 23:57
The order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the president sees as aiding his enemies.

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President Trump’s order makes Perkins Coie, which did legal work for Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign, the second law firm to be targeted for retribution.

Ricardo Scofidio, Boldly Imaginative Architect, Is Dead at 89

7 mars 2025 à 00:23
With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he brought a conceptual-art sensibility to cultural landmarks like Lincoln Center and to innovative public spaces like Manhattan’s High Line.

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Ricardo Scofidio in 2007, several years after he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, became the first architects to be awarded MacArthur “genius” grants. “I’m always a little shocked when people try to make me realize we’re a big firm doing big projects,” he said, “because that was not the goal.”

Adnan Syed Will Not Return to Prison, Judge Rules

A judge reduced his sentence to time served in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, ending a case that drew widespread attention when it was dissected in the “Serial” podcast.

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Adnan Syed in 2022, after a judge vacated his murder conviction. His case was the subject of the first season of the “Serial” podcast in 2014.

Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5

6 mars 2025 à 23:18
A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.

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Pete Marocco, left, the State Department official who has been overseeing cuts to U.S.A.I.D., arriving for a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.
index.feed.received.yesterday — 6 mars 2025NYT

State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

6 mars 2025 à 22:34
American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.

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The reductions at the State Department are part of both President Trump’s larger slashing of the federal government and his “America First” foreign policy.

2 Texas Lottery Wins Prompt Investigations and Stir Public Outrage

6 mars 2025 à 22:19
One jackpot winner spent $25 million on nearly every possible number combination, while another bought tickets through a third-party app.

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Jackpocket, a third-party app owned by DraftKings, suspended operations in Texas as state officials questioned the fairness of winning tickets purchased through courier services.

Trump and Johnson Push a Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert a Shutdown

6 mars 2025 à 21:31
Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around Congress and set funding levels himself.

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Speaker Mike Johnson has joined President Trump in pitching congressional Republicans on a stopgap spending bill.

What to Know About the Status of the Eric Adams Corruption Case

6 mars 2025 à 19:33
The government wants to drop the charges, a move that critics call a deal to secure the mayor’s help in deportations. A lawyer appointed by a judge is scheduled to weigh in.

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Paul D. Clement is a former solicitor general and has argued before the Supreme Court more than 100 times.

Justice Barrett May Have the Crucial Vote in Trump Cases

6 mars 2025 à 18:59
She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid.

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In the last Supreme Court term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the Republican appointee most likely to vote for a liberal result.

He Sang in Praise of Women Exposing Their Hair. Iran Flogged Him.

6 mars 2025 à 18:07
Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who rejected the mandatory hijab rule.

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Protests in western Iran in 2022 over the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been arrested on accusations of violating the country’s hijab rule. The musician Mehdi Yarrahi was arrested in a wave of detentions that aimed to quell any protests marking the anniversary of that uprising.

Gavin Newsom Splits With Democrats on Transgender Athletes: ‘It’s Deeply Unfair’

6 mars 2025 à 18:06
The remarks by Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential White House hopeful, were an extraordinary break from fellow Democrats and signaled a newly defensive position on the issue.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has backed L.G.B.T.Q. causes for decades and was one of the earliest American elected officials to officiate at same-sex weddings.

House Censures Al Green for Heckling Trump During Speech to Congress

6 mars 2025 à 17:35
Ten members of his party joined Republicans in voting to officially condemn the Texas Democrat after he was ejected from the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday. Mr. Green voted “present.”

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Representative Al Green was removed from the House chamber after he refused to sit down during President Trump’s address to Congress.

Roy Ayers, Vibraphonist Who Injected Soul Into Jazz, Dies at 84

6 mars 2025 à 18:34
He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.

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Roy Ayers in performance in Cincinnati in 1976. In addition to being one of the acknowledged masters of the jazz vibraphone, Mr. Ayers was a leader in the movement that added electric instruments, rock and R&B rhythms, and a more soulful feel to jazz.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Funding Freeze, Saying White House Put Itself ‘Above Congress’

6 mars 2025 à 18:46
The judge had already ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.

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A memo from the White House budget office had demanded a pause on billions in grants until the administration could determine that the funding complied with President Trump’s priorities.
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