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Move Over, Netflix: Ukraine’s Corruption Investigators Bring the Drama

The country’s anti-graft agencies have taken a cinematic approach to revealing a scandal that has touched President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle.

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Opposition lawmakers blocking the Parliament’s rostrum in Kyiv, on Tuesday, demanding to oust the government after a major corruption scandal in the country’s energy sector.
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Lawrence Summers Has Come Back From Scandals. Will This Be His Last?

The former Harvard president has come back from controversy before, but revelations in new Epstein emails are threatening his omnipresence in public life.

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Lawrence H. Summers resigned from the Harvard presidency decades ago after he was criticized over statements about women. But he remained a powerful public figure.
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Delayed Jobs Data to Give Snapshot of a Labor Market Under Stress

Economists expect that employment growth was anemic in September, before the government shutdown delayed data collection.

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A job fair in Chicago in October. The latest employment data was delayed by the federal government shutdown.
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Ambassador Huckabee Held Meeting With Jonathan Pollard, Ex-Spy, at U.S. Embassy in Israel

Jonathan J. Pollard, who was convicted of espionage, said in an interview that the meeting, which was highly unusual for a U.S. diplomat to attend, had been friendly.

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Jonathan J. Pollard leaving federal court in New York in 2015. In a phone interview with The New York Times, he said he did not regret spying for Israel.
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The Grand Ole Opry at 100

As the country music institution celebrates a century of its radio broadcast, listen to how the show defined the culture — and was reshaped by it — decade by decade.
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Holiday Hiring Slows, Frustrating Job Seekers

Retailers are adding fewer of the seasonal roles that many Americans rely on to make ends meet.

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Shoppers at a Target in Colonie, N.Y., last year on Black Friday. The retailer hasn’t said how many seasonal workers it plans to hire for this year’s holiday shopping period.
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Franco Died 50 Years Ago, but He’s Still Winning New Fans in Spain

Young Spaniards are increasingly drawn to the dictator Francisco Franco. So the government is designing apps, games and T-shirts to promote democracy.

Francisco Franco’s grave outside Madrid still draws mourners, highlighting lingering disputes within Spanish society over the dictator’s legacy. José Luis Ortiz, a Franco supporter, tends to the tomb.
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Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.

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Omar El Akkad accepting the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night.
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Alice and Ellen Kessler, ’60s Singing Sensations, Die at 89

The twin sisters from Germany, who were nightclub stars and regular guests on international variety shows, chose to end their lives together.

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The Kesslers at a news conference in 1997, presenting excerpts from a show based on their autobiography, “Eins Und Eins Ist Eins” (“One Plus One Is One”).
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Trump Approves the Epstein Files Release, but Some May Be Withheld

The president sought to take credit for the legislation, despite months of pressure to kill it. The bill has significant exceptions that could mean many documents would stay confidential.

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President Trump said he has signed legislation calling on the Justice Department to release its Epstein files.
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Trump and Mamdani Will Meet at White House on Friday

The meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and President Trump will come after the two men have fiercely attacked one another.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he wanted to speak plainly to the president. President Trump, in a social media post, called Mr. Mamdani a communist.
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Saudi Arabia, Once Shunned, Has Corporate Titans Swooning for Deals

Some of the most prominent U.S. executives gathered at the Kennedy Center for an event promoting deal-making with the oil-rich kingdom.

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President Trump posing next to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia for a group photo at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
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Florida Lawmaker Stole FEMA Funds for House Campaign, Prosecutors Say

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick misused $5 million in Covid-related funds during the pandemic in part to finance her campaign, according to the Justice Department.

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Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has since 2022 represented a district that includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
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