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After TikTok Deal, Chinese Firms Search for a New Global Path

Chinese firms must contend with geopolitical tensions and mistrust to do business in the United States. Some are choosing to avoid the U.S. altogether.

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The short-video platform TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has become a geopolitical football in relations between the United States and China.
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Europe’s Leaders Scramble to Find a Path Forward With Trump

Leaders from across the European Union held an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss Greenland and, more broadly, their fragile relationship with America.

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President Trump addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
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D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests

Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the revocation of visas for five international students last year.
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National Park Service Dismantles Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia

The exhibit memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington. The Park Service said it was being removed in accordance with a directive from President Trump.

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An outdoor exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia in October. The National Park Service has taken down the exhibit.
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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

The New York Times ran the image posted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as well as the one posted by the White House through an A.I. detection system. It concluded that the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation.

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Nekima Levy Armstrong after speaking at an anti-ICE rally in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday. The Justice Department said on Thursday morning that it had taken her into custody, accusing her of helping to interrupt a church service in St. Paul.
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Here’s Who Just Bought TikTok

Several big companies and investment firms are part of the new American TikTok. Many have ties to one another and President Trump.

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Man Accused in $100 Million Jewel Heist Is Deported, Thwarting Trial

The move comes as ICE seeks to deport more people charged with crimes, sometimes before their cases are resolved.

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In a photo released by the F.B.I., a jewelry showcase displays some of the items that were taken during the July 11, 2022, jewelry heist in California.
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F.A.A. Says Helicopter Restrictions Imposed After D.C. Crash Will Stay

The agency said that expanding the restrictions and making them permanent were urgent steps for avoiding another crash.

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The new rule for Ronald Reagan National Airport sets strict limits on what “essential operations” could be excepted from the airspace restrictions.
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ICE Demands More Access to Minnesota Inmates. But It’s Complicated.

The Trump administration said it would ease its immigration operation in Minnesota in exchange for broader access to inmates. Local leaders say they already cooperate significantly.

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Under Minnesota law, the state’s Department of Corrections must notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials when an immigrant convicted of a felony is set to be released.
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Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers

At two congressional hearings, lawmakers slammed executives of major companies, saying they were failing to rein in the cost of medical care for consumers.

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Stephen Hemsley, chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, left, defended insurers’ practices, along with other companies’ executives, during congressional hearings on Thursday.
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Five Fronts in Trump’s Culture War

In the first year of his second term, President Trump has made sweeping efforts to influence the arts and media in America.

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During a White House dinner in October, President Trump showed models of a triumphal arch he is planning to build in Washington.
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RFK Jr. Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

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Each year thousands of babies born in Guinea-Bissau, one of the world’s least developed countries, are exposed to hepatitis B, a virus that can cause severe liver damage and cancer.
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