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Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020

15 janvier 2026 à 21:43
Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.

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Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The mental health challenges he faced in recent years are likely to be central to his legal defense.

None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.

15 janvier 2026 à 21:27
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.

Big Plan for Fannie and Freddie I.P.O. in Flux as Trump Pushes Affordability

15 janvier 2026 à 21:13
Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government during the 2008 financial crisis, but their status after a planned I.P.O. remains unclear.

Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65

15 janvier 2026 à 20:49
In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

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Hartung during his floor exercise at the 1984 Games. The American men’s team victory was so surprising that the team’s coach compared it to the United States hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice” victory at the Winter Olympics four years earlier.

Mamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action

15 janvier 2026 à 20:26
“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

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Samuel Levine was previously the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Biden administration.

Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish.

15 janvier 2026 à 16:07
As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in.

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Some Democrats who are critical of the Trump administration’s immigration raids in cities across the nation are urging the party not to embrace calls to “Abolish ICE.”

Alexander Brothers Accuser Was Found Dead Last Year, Authorities Say

15 janvier 2026 à 20:34
The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.

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Alon Alexander, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, in court in December 2024. Kate Whiteman accused them of sexually assaulting her in 2012.

Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran

15 janvier 2026 à 19:24
Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

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A photograph posted on social media showing a protest in Tehran last week.

The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Millon Townhouse

15 janvier 2026 à 22:08
When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.

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The home in question, a modernist townhouse in Brooklyn Heights designed by Mary and Joseph Merz.

Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

15 janvier 2026 à 16:56
Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.

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Newly recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a training center last year. President Trump and administration officials have given tacit approval for more aggressive tactics by the agency.

For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts

15 janvier 2026 à 17:07
The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back.

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Brian Diers was employed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign soybean “innovation lab” before it was shuttered. Now he works with soybean plants on a volunteer basis.

Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington

15 janvier 2026 à 20:00
The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.

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A planned vote on a cryptocurrency bill on Thursday was canceled after Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s chief executive, objected to the measure in a social media post on Wednesday evening.

U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments

15 janvier 2026 à 16:59
The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.

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A health clinic in Mhlosheni, Eswatini, in May. Health funding from the U.S. to Eswatini — where a quarter of adults live with H.I.V. — would drop by 34 percent under the new agreement between the two countries.

Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

15 janvier 2026 à 16:56
Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.

© Audra Melton for The New York Times

Newly recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a training center last year. President Trump and administration officials have given tacit approval for more aggressive tactics by the agency.

Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest

15 janvier 2026 à 16:38
Any new detention would not come immediately, and Mr. Khalil’s lawyers plan to appeal. But the ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian movement.

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Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest last year was an early, high-profile example of the Trump White House’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.
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