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Debt Downgrade Bolsters The Right In Congressional Talks Over Megabill

Conservatives have been holding out against the major tax and spending cut package to implement President Trump’s agenda, arguing it will swell federal deficits. The Moody’s downgrade underscored their concerns.

© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

Republican members during a House Budget Committee meeting late Sunday night on Capitol Hill.
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Thousands of Chicks Left in Postal Service Truck Overwhelm a Delaware Shelter

About 4,000 birds were found dead in the truck, and 10,000 others were stranded there for three days, state officials said. The hatchery that shipped the chicks said it did not know why the shipment had never made it to its destinations.

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Hundreds of chicks that were never delivered were taken on May 2 to a shelter in Camden, Del., run by First State Animal Center and SPCA.
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Trump Spoke to Putin for Two Hours

Also, the nation’s third-largest school district has embraced A.I. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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A Ukrainian soldier near Kupiansk, in Ukraine’s northeast, last week.
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Trump Administration Discussing $5 Million Payment to Family of Ashli Babbitt

The payment, if approved, would represent an extraordinary concession by the Justice Department, which prosecuted nearly 1,600 people in connection with the riot.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Michelle Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by the police during the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department is considering $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit.
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