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Chaos and Panic Grip Tehran as Airstrikes Shake City

Iranians were beginning their workweek as U.S. and Israeli strikes sent people fleeing parts of the capital and parents racing to collect children from schools.

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A photo released by Iranian state media on Saturday shows people reacting after an explosion in Tehran.
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

The deal came hours after President Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI, which reached an agreement with the Department of Defense on A.I. on classified systems on Friday.
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Former U.S. Air Force Officer Is Accused of Training Chinese Military Pilots

The former officer traveled to China to train pilots of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force without approval from the State Department, the Justice Department said.

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People saluting pilots on a fighter jet in China. The former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested on Wednesday, after he spent more than 2 years in China, the Justice Department said.
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Carney Visiting India, Australia and Japan to Build Canada’s ‘Middle Power’ Bonds

Prime Minister Mark Carney visits India, Australia and Japan seeking deals to strengthen his country’s links to Indo-Pacific powers and break Canada’s dependence on the United States.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, arriving in Mumbai, India, on Friday.
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Bill Clinton Testifies He ‘Saw Nothing’ of Epstein’s Misdeeds

The former president sat for hours of questioning by members of both parties, in an appearance that Democrats signaled they would use as a precedent to force President Trump to do the same.

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Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, with other Republicans on the panel.
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‘We Got to Win the Midterms’: Trump Takes His State of the Union Message on the Road

During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.

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President Trump greeted diners at a fast-food restaurant in Corpus Christi on Friday. In the days after a State of the Union address, presidents typically travel the nation promoting their agenda.
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Columbia Student Detained by ICE Promotes ‘Beauty’ and ‘Brains’ Online

Elmina Aghayeva has 114,000 followers on Instagram and has seemingly never posted about politics, unlike other Columbia University students detained by immigration officers.

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Federal immigration officials detained Columbia University student Elmina Aghayeva at a university-owned building on Thursday.
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In a Memoir Draft, Changpeng Zhao of Binance Details the Talks Leading to His Prison Time

In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.

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Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, outside federal court in Seattle in 2024 at his sentencing for violating an anti-money-laundering law.
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Instagram to Alert Parents to Teens’ Self-Harm Searches

Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them.

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Meta, which owns Instagram, is promoting the parental alerts about searches for harmful content as it is on trial in two states over claims that its platforms are addictive and have harmed young users.
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Neil Sedaka: 14 Essential Songs

The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.

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Neil Sedaka at home in California last summer, when he was playing a residency at a lounge called Vitello’s.
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How Israel Lost Americans

Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.

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Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

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Neil Sedaka performing onstage in London in 1977. He intersected in his career with a remarkably diverse array of musicians.
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30 More Indicted in Cities Church Protest Against ICE in St. Paul

The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.

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Demonstrators were arrested after disrupting a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., in January.
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Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.

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The lawyer Ben Crump, second from left, walking with Henrietta Lacks’s grandsons Ron Lacks, left, and Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, and other descendants in Baltimore in 2021.
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