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How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, have been key players, alongside the presidential adviser Stephen Miller, in President Trump’s escalating conflict in Venezuela.
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Hundreds of Flights Canceled at New York Airports, Even With a Few Inches of Snow

To avoid the ripple effects of real-time adjustments to what was predicted to be up to nine inches of snow, the major airlines said they pre-emptively canceled flights.

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Kennedy International Airport on Saturday morning. The airport, along with LaGuardia and Newark International, dealt with hundreds of flight cancellations and delays from Friday into Saturday.
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Trump Pursues His Legacy One Name at a Time

In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.

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President Trump announcing the Navy’s new “Trump Class” battleships.
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A Dancing Dictator and Bankers in Chains: The Other Venezuela Blockade

A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.

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Cipriano Castro, who ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908. Known as the “Lion of the Andes,” he defied the great powers of the era.
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Another Front in the Trump Immigration Crackdown: Import Warehouses

Workers at facilities that stock shipped goods say customs officers who inspect merchandise are helping immigration agents arrest migrants.

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Immigration officials raided the Savino Del Bene warehouse in Avenel, N.J., which moves fashion and luxury goods.
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It’s Time to Give the Ovary Some More Respect

Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

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A light micrograph of a sectioned ovary and ovarian follicle. The ovary is both a reservoir for eggs and a producer of hormones.
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More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try.

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Amy Howdyshell, 43, used a bankruptcy filing to get more than $78,000 in federal student debt dismissed.
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I Love My Naturally Aging Face

But when I see Demi Moore, 63, looking far younger than me at 48, I wonder if I should be figuring out a way to keep up.

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Good Calls

This week, we close out the year with your best advice of 2025.
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Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror

When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.

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When Park adds humor to his films, “it sometimes skips a couple of steps, so it can go over people’s heads,” Lee said.
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How One Father Created an Organ Empire

The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.

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The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.
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Karoline Leavitt Says She’s Expecting Her Second Child

The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.

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Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, this month at the office. She’s the youngest person to hold the job.
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Russia Pummels Kyiv Before Trump-Zelensky Meeting

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault, which lasted nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.

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Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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What to Know About the Vote in Myanmar

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

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Myanmar Plaza on Christmas Day in Yangon, the nation’s largest city.
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Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Legal Action Over Canceled Christmas Concert

The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.

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Crews added President Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 19.
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