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Doctor Who Gave Matthew Perry Ketamine Is Sentenced to 30 Months

The doctor, Salvador Plasencia, had asked “I wonder how much this moron will pay” before supplying the drug to Mr. Perry, who became increasingly reliant on it before his death.

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“I’m just so sorry,” Salvador Plasencia told Matthew Perry’s family during the sentencing hearing on Wednesday.
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What to Know About Trump’s Threat of Military Action in Venezuela

The president has warned that the United States could soon expand its attacks from boats near the coast to targets inside Venezuela, but he has also spoken by phone to its leader.

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Nicolás Maduro in Caracas in November. According to multiple people close to the Venezuelan government, Mr. Maduro believes he can remain in control and ride out the gravest threat to his 12-year rule.
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Who is Andrew Farkas, Who Owned a Marina With Jeffrey Epstein?

The billionaire real estate developer’s relationship with Mr. Epstein is in the spotlight, with the release of emails and images of Mr. Epstein’s private home in the Caribbean.

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Andrew Farkas has built a real estate empire in New York. But he has never publicly addressed his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein until now.
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Hong Kong’s Response to Deadly Fire Shows China’s Play Book in Action

In a sign of China’s role in the city, officials have tried to stamp out calls for accountability over a catastrophe that killed at least 159 people.

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After last week’s deadly fire at a residential complex, Hong Kong warned its residents against using it to “cause chaos.”
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Ghislaine Maxwell Says She Will Ask a Court to Free Her From Prison

In a court filing, a lawyer for the onetime companion of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein said she would seek to be released from her minimum-security federal lockup.

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Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
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What Tennessee Revealed About the G.O.P.’s Trump Trap in the Midterms

Republican candidates face the problem that President Trump alone gets out the vote that they need. And he alone gets out the vote that Democrats need, too.

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Supporters gathered at the election night party for Matt Van Epps ahead of his victory in a special election for the House on Tuesday in Tennessee.
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Stakes High, Europe Races to Save Its Financing Plan for Ukraine

The European Union has a proposal for how to turn Russian frozen assets into a giant loan for Ukraine. If it fails, it could further weaken Europe’s global image.

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Members of the 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine last year.
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Photos of Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island Released by Democrats

In publicizing the photos and videos, Democrats in Congress appeared to be intensifying pressure on the Justice Department to release its files on the Epstein case.

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Little St. James, the private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
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Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.

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Workers installing the MicroBooNE time-projection chamber into the experiment’s cryostat at Fermilab in 2013.
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