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Dueling Protests Begin in Minneapolis as City Remains on Edge

17 janvier 2026 à 20:00
A rally at City Hall and a march have been organized by a conservative influencer to draw attention to a fraud scandal in the state. Counterprotesters came out to oppose the effort.

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Minneapolis has had near-daily protests since an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7.

Mamdani Appoints New Parks Commissioner to Oversee NYC Green Spaces

17 janvier 2026 à 19:37
The mayor announced Tricia Shimamura as the city’s new parks commissioner amid broad calls for more park funding.

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Tricia Shimamura, the Parks Department’s Manhattan borough commissioner since March 2024, will now be in charge of 30,000 acres of parkland across the city’s five boroughs.

World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law

17 janvier 2026 à 13:12
Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters by enabling conservation zones.

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The High Seas Treaty represents the first time that the vast majority of international waters, which lie outside of any country’s jurisdiction and cover nearly half the globe, can be protected.

Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere

17 janvier 2026 à 11:02
Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

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John Furner, incoming chief executive of Walmart, left, and Sundar Pichai, Google’s leader, said at a conference in New York City this week that the two companies would use artificial intelligence to change how all businesses sold their products.

AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett

17 janvier 2026 à 01:29
A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.

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Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, is challenging Senator John Cornyn, a fellow Republican.

Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93

17 janvier 2026 à 14:54
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

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Rhoda Levine in 1995 at a rehearsal for her production of Hindemith’s “Mathis Der Maler” at New York City Opera. She was acclaimed for clear, straightforward stagings of classics, rarities and new works.

How War With China Begins

17 janvier 2026 à 13:00
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

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A Taiwan fighter jet comes in for landing as China conducts military drills in the region.

Prize Fight

17 janvier 2026 à 12:23
In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.

A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.

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Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium and uranium. He fills jugs of drinking water at Rocky Ford Food Market in Rocky Ford, Colo.

Can Cuba Survive Without Venezuela’s Oil?

17 janvier 2026 à 11:02
President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.

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A Cuban-flagged oil tanker anchored near the Matanzas terminal this month in Cuba.
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