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Federal Judges Uphold California’s New Congressional Maps

A panel in Los Angeles sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom in a decision that will help Democrats counter Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Republicans are expected to appeal.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California persuaded voters to approve new congressional maps that benefited Democrats. It was a response, he said, to a political gerrymander that helped Republicans in Texas.
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Food Prices Keep Climbing, Rattling Consumers and Trump

Weather, supply, tariffs, labor and changing consumer habits continue to drive up the cost of groceries. President Trump falsely claims prices are falling.

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The cost of groceries surged last month, according to data released on Tuesday. But President Trump continues to falsely claim that they’ve fallen.
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Quebec Premier François Legault Resigns Ahead of Elections

Premier François Legault became Canada’s most popular provincial leader during the pandemic thanks to his reassuring, avuncular persona. But missteps sank his hopes for a third term.

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Premier François Legault of Quebec announcing his resignation on Wednesday.
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Gallup: Independents Reach Record High as Democrats Make Voter Gains

New data from Gallup shows overall gains for Democrats even though 45 percent of Americans do not identify with either political party.

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A poll by Gallup indicated that nearly half of voters identify as independent, but a majority of those voters will side with a political party if pushed.
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Republicans Move to Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela

G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.

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Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has reversed himself on the war powers resolution, saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump convinced him that it was not needed.
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Republicans Advance Stock-Trading Bill With Limited Restrictions

The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”

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Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol last week. He has backed the Stop Insider Trading Act.
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NASA to Begin Space Station Medical Evacuation: Video and What to Know

Four astronauts have closed their spacecraft hatch and are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.

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The International Space Station crew members in their Crew Dragon pressure suits on Jan. 9. Clockwise from bottom left: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.
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Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

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Judge Puts Off Ruling on Minnesota’s Request to Block ICE Surge

Lawyers for the state sought an immediate ruling, but the judge said she would give the Justice Department time to respond in writing to the state’s lawsuit.

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Federal agents near the site in Minneapolis where Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an agent on Jan. 7.
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Analysis: Trump Supports Protesters in Iran, but Not in Minneapolis

The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent.

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The television images of mass protests in the streets of Minneapolis and Tehran in recent days have invariably highlighted the complications and contradictions of Donald J. Trump’s presidency.
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Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch

A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.

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Tony Dokoupil, the new anchor of “CBS Evening News,” interviewed President Trump in a factory near Detroit on Tuesday night. Dokoupil has been broadcasting from different cities since his debut last week.
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Supreme Court Sides With Conservative Congressman in Illinois Election Rules Challenge

The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.

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A vote-by-mail ballot drop box in Chicago. The Illinois case is one of several lawsuits brought by allies of President Trump challenging rules around mail-in ballots after his 2020 election loss.
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Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend

In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.

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Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Lung Cancer Stigma Keeps People From Care

The disease is the rare cancer met with accusations, not sympathy.

© Emily Elconin for The New York Times

After Jim Pantelas was diagnosed with lung cancer, he recalled friends and colleagues saying, “‘Well, you knew this was coming; you smoked a lot.’” It deepened his belief that he didn’t deserve care.
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