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A Question Circling Sydney’s Beaches: Do We Still Need Shark Nets?

Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them.

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Some Sydney beaches were closed after a shark attack at Long Reef Beach in September.
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Heading Toward Midterms, the G.O.P. Continues to Slip

Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for the Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.

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Aftyn Behn’s loss in a Tennessee special election Tuesday was still a good sign for Democrats.
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‘The President Has the Final Word’ on Pardons, U.S. Attorney Says

Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, had called his office’s drug prosecution of an ex-president of Honduras a success. President Trump decided to free him this week.

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Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, speaking at a symposium on international white-collar crime on Tuesday in New York.
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U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance

Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.

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The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The school said that because of shifting federal policy and diversity programs, it could no longer support the magazines.
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Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee House Race After a Trump-Led Rescue Mission

Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans’ slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.

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Matt Van Epps at his election night party in Nashville. He drew help from President Trump and national Republican groups, which ran a flurry of attack ads against his Democratic opponent.
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Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting

President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.

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President Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
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U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List

The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

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A camp for internally displaced people in Somalia in September. It is one of the countries on the travel ban list, which includes some of the poorest and most unstable nations in the world.
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Trump Frees Former President of Honduras

Plus, C.D.C. advisers are set to change the vaccine schedule. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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Juan Orlando Hernández at the U.N. in 2019.
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Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold SNAP Funding From Democratic States

The latest threat to SNAP funding came after weeks of confusion over the status of benefits during the government shutdown.

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Brooke L. Rollins, the agriculture secretary, threatened to withhold food assistance funding from more than 20 Democratic-led states.
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Cancer-Detecting Blood Tests Are on the Rise. Do They Work?

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.

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William Hill, a firefighter in Brockton, Mass., was diagnosed with cancer after taking an experimental blood test.
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