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Pope Leo Lands in Turkey, Planning to Meet Erdogan With a Message of Outreach

Leo XIV arrived in the country’s capital, Ankara, and will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the opening leg of a trip that will also include Lebanon.

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Pope Leo XIV arriving in Turkey on Thursday. On the flight, he told reporters that the trip sought to “proclaim how important peace is throughout the world.”
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Amid Strobes and a Beat Drop, Pope Blesses Rave-Goers

A papal video message appeared before a crowd of hundreds in Slovakia, as Guilherme Peixoto, a priest who doubles as an electronic D.J., put on a show.

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Pope Leo XIV addressed the crowd on video at a rave in Slovakia earlier this month.
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Heading to the Mideast, Pope Leo May Show ‘Who He Really Is’

The pontiff begins a trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday — the first foreign voyage of his papacy, and his biggest test yet.

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A billboard welcoming Pope Leo XIV in Beirut, Lebanon. The country has the largest community of Catholics in the Middle East.
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Operation Allies Welcome, Gave Some Afghans Entry to the U.S.

The Biden administration set up the initiative after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021 for those who assisted U.S. troops.

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Brig. Gen. Dan Gabrielli greeting Afghans at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico as part of Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.
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Dominican Republic Allows U.S. to Use Territory to Fight International Organized Crime

The Dominican leader, Luis Abinader, said the Pentagon could use restricted areas within the San Isidro Air Base and Las Américas International Airport for refueling and transporting equipment and technical personnel.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a news conference after meeting with President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.
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Leaked Transcript of Witkoff Call Shows U.S. Deference to Russia

The White House envoy’s conversation suggests that President Trump is determined to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine, even if it is mostly on Russia’s terms.

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President Trump defended his envoy Steve Witkoff’s leaked conversation as a “standard thing” that “a deal maker does.”
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Trump Orders 500 More National Guard Troops to D.C. After Shooting

The deployment also follows a monthslong debate about the role of the National Guard in American cities.

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A cordoned-off area near a shooting in Washington on Wednesday. Last week, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the president’s National Guard deployment appeared to violate the law.
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Trump Says South Africa Is Not Invited to G20 Summit in U.S. in 2026

The president did not attend this year’s annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa addresses the opening session of the G20 leaders’ summit, in Johannesburg.
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North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says

The district court ruling means that the party is one step closer to securing another seat in the U.S. House and retaining its majority, at the urging of President Trump.

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Voters in Durham, N.C., last year. A panel of federal judges in North Carolina allowed the state’s newly redrawn congressional map to go into effect for the 2026 midterm elections.
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As Trade Talks Stall, Carney Moves to Shield Canada from Trump Tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced curbs on steel imports, a new tariff and help with steel and lumber freight costs in a bid to aid Canadian industries.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arriving on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday.
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Dubrovnik, Known for Its Beauty, Faces a Mound of New Trash

Officials in Dubrovnik, Croatia, say the strong currents of the Adriatic Sea washed ashore a vast amount of garbage, mostly from Albania, during a recent storm.

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Banje Beach is the most popular beach on Croatia’s shore, but there were no sunbathers on Wednesday.
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U.S. Army Secretary’s Unusual Role in Ukraine Peace Negotiations

Daniel Driscoll has met with Ukrainian and Russian officials during a whirlwind of trips as the Trump administration pushes its latest proposal.

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The U.S. Army secretary, Daniel Driscoll, standing, as an American delegation met with Ukrainian officials in Geneva on Sunday. Mr. Driscoll, a 39-year-old former Army lieutenant colonel, appears to be on the rise in the Trump administration.
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David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72

He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.

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David Lerner, in suspenders, with Dick Demenus at Tekserve in 2002. The service outlet was featured on “Sex and the City” and was the setting of Tamara Shopsin’s 2021 novel “LaserWriter II.”
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

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The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of Easter Island, were hewed from compacted ash in a quarry inside the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano between A.D. 1200 and 1700.
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Differences Over Health Care and Ukraine Roil a Chaotic G.O.P. Congress

Republican lawmakers and the White House have unloaded on one another as post-shutdown tension over policy and performance spreads across Capitol Hill.

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Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, at the Capitol this month. He has announced he plans to retire at the end of his term in early 2027.
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