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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 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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University of Oklahoma Instructor on Leave After Failing Student’s Gender Essay

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment.

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Responding to a scholarly article that discussed teasing as a way to enforce gender norms, the University of Oklahoma student wrote, “I do not necessarily see this as a problem.”
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Like Fancy Japanese Toilets? You’ll Love the Sound of This.

Devices that conceal unwanted noises are the next frontier in advanced toilet technology. Would you like some peaceful birdsong, or perhaps a burst of artillery fire?

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Donna Burke, who moved to Japan from Australia in 1996, has been such a fan of bathroom noise-concealing technology that she developed her own device, the Royal Flushh.
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Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.

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Eugene Hasenfus after he was captured by Sandinista soldiers in October 1986. His plane ferrying supplies to right-wing rebels in Nicaragua had been shot down. Parachuting to safety, he was the only crewman to survive.
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Ayanna Pressley Won’t Challenge Markey for Senate in Massachusetts

Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.

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Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts has attracted a national following among progressives.
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Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders

The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.

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Elon Musk’s foundation gave $370 million last year to a nonprofit in Texas led by his top aide that operates an elementary school in a rural area where many of Mr. Musk’s employees live.
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Prosecutors Drop Murder Case Against Man Who Served More Than 25 Years

James Pugh, one of two men originally convicted in the savage killing of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo in 1993, said all along that he was innocent.

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“Her opinion is all I really care about,” James Pugh said of Lisa Payne, the victim’s daughter. “I could care less about anyone else’s. I just want her to be at peace.”
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