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What We Know About the UPS Plane Crash in Louisville

Seven people were dead after the cargo plane crashed soon after takeoff. The authorities canceled flights from the airport in Louisville, Ky., and local residents were ordered to remain indoors.

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A plume of smoke rises from the site of a UPS cargo plane crash at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday.
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

The 34-year-old assemblyman won the Democratic primary by defying the city’s all-powerful establishment. He secured the mayoralty by delicately disarming it.

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Zohran Mamdani in June held the first of three campaign rallies with leaders of the left, appearing with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Manhattan.
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Spanberger Wins Virginia Governor’s Race With Forceful Anti-Trump Campaign

Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman and C.I.A. officer, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia, following a streak of 74 men.

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Representative Abigail Spanberger, Democrat of Virginia, campaigned on the same issue that propelled her to victory during her first House race in 2018: opposition to President Trump.
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Tom Brady Says He Cloned His Dog

Mr. Brady became the latest celebrity to try to preserve a pet’s genetics, a move that animal rights groups have criticized.

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Tom Brady, the former star quarterback, revealed this week that he had cloned his dog.
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Latest U.S. Strike on Suspected Drug Boat Kills 2 in Pacific, Hegseth Says

It was the 16th announced attack in two months and raised the death toll to at least 67 people in both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in September. On Tuesday, he announced another American military strike on a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.

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Vice President Dick Cheney greeting an Iraqi soldier at Taji Air Base in December 2005. The war in Iraq was a defining episode of Mr. Cheney’s life in government.
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On Eve of Shutdown Record, Trump Officials Threaten Pain Could Worsen

President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.

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President Trump leaving West Palm Beach to return to Washington on Sunday. For weeks, the Trump administration has played a game of winners and losers with the shutdown.
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Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference

Prominent conservatives, including the president, sounded familiar alarms about voter suppression and other efforts to manipulate the vote on Election Day, without presenting evidence.

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President Trump was one of several prominent conservatives to claim without evidence that the results of elections on Tuesday were being rigged.
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UPS Plane Crash Near Louisville Airport Kills at Least 7, Officials Say

The plane crashed and exploded shortly after taking off from a Kentucky airport that hosts the delivery company’s main air cargo hub, forcing the airport to close.

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A shelter-in-place order was issued for a five-mile radius around the airport in Louisville, Ky., after a plane crash on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities said.
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New York Mayor’s Race Sees Highest Voter Turnout in Decades

Voter participation in the city, which once surpassed 90 percent, cratered in recent elections. Here’s a look at why it fell, and why this year has been different.

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Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York, center left, in 1957, just days before he won re-election in a landslide. That year, more than 90 percent of registered voters cast ballots.
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Americans Vote

Also, Trump is weighing military options in Venezuela. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further

Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority.

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President Trump’s approach to power is, in many ways, the fulfillment of the worldview of the Dick Cheney of a quarter-century ago.
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Sara Terry, Photographer Who Captured War’s Aftermath, Dies at 70

Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had stopped.

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Sara Terry began her career as a print reporter but, she said, “I lost my faith in words in the mid-’90s and I picked up a camera.”
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The Tragedy of Dick Cheney

He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him.

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Dick Cheney in 1989, when he was secretary of defense.
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5 Things We’re Watching on Election Day in California

Proposition 50 is the only statewide question on the ballot, but there are numerous dynamics at play.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California speaks to voters at a rally for Proposition 50.
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What to Know About the Legal Scandal in Israel Over Accusations of Abuse

The fallout from a legal case has reignited a highly charged debate within the country over whether Israeli soldiers accused of abusing Palestinians are held accountable.

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The Israeli military’s former chief legal officer, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in October 2014.
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