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Believe It or Not, That $12 Million Gold Toilet Was Bought by … Ripley’s

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Par :Zachary Small
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The entertainment company plans on displaying the toilet, saying its team is exploring “whether visitors may someday be allowed to use it.”

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not, which paid $12.1 million for the toilet on Tuesday, said that “finding the unbelievable is our business.”
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Newly Discovered Bach Pieces Are the Fruits of Decades of Detective Work

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Par :Adam Nagourney
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A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog.

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The two pieces were premiered by Ton Koopman and given their own numbers in the catalog of Bach’s works: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179.
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The World Craves A.I. Chips

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Par :Matthew Cullen
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Also, a corruption scandal is roiling Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

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Jensen Huang at the Nvidia GTC conference last month.
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Stalled Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights Springs Back to Life

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Par :Alan Feuer
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The resurrected inquiry could finally get to the bottom of lingering questions such as: Did top Trump administration officials purposely ignore a court order?

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Judge James E. Boasberg’s initial order laying out the contempt investigation outlined an aggressive process for figuring out what happened inside the administration.
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Mexico Is Now the United States’ Top Buyer

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Par :James Wagner
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For first time in at least 30 years, the United States has exported more to Mexico than Canada, U.S. government data show, in a sign of how much North American trade has consolidated.

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Trucks moving goods from the United States to Mexico in February. “Mexico is the United States’ main trading partner,” said Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s economy minister.
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Alberta Invokes Last-Resort Constitutional Clause to Shield Trans Laws From Challenges

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Par :Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen
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The western province’s conservative government has invoked a rarely used clause in Canada’s Constitution to shield its bills limiting transgender rights from legal challenges.

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Danielle Smith, Alberta’s conservative premier, has framed the enactment of the bills as a matter of children’s safety.
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Nvidia Earnings Show Profit Jumped 65% to $31.9 Billion

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Par :Tripp Mickle
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The company, which makes the computer chips essential to the artificial intelligence boom, also said revenue in its recent quarter rose to $57 billion.

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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, made a bet on chips for artificial intelligence that has turned his company into a Silicon Valley giant.
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George Conway, a Vocal Foe of Trump, Eyes Congressional Run

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Par :Annie Karni
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The former conservative lawyer built a social media following with his harsh criticism of President Trump, who was the boss of his wife at the time.

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George Conway is moving closer to announcing a run for Congress in one of Manhattan’s wealthiest and bluest districts.
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Trump Wanted to Abolish FEMA. His Own Advisers Disagree.

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Par :Maxine Joselow and Scott Dance
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A panel convened by President Trump is said to have rejected the president’s idea that the agency should “go away.”

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The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, during a news conference with Texas officials following the catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, in July.
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Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 25 in Gaza Amid Cease-Fire, Officials Say

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Par :Aaron Boxerman
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Israel’s military said it had launched attacks across Gaza after Palestinian militants shot at its troops. The six-week-old cease-fire has been pierced periodically by bursts of violence.

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Israeli soldiers and tanks gathered near the Gaza border in southern Israel on Monday.
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After Shutdown, Labor Department Says Some Data is Gone for Good

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Par :Lydia DePillis and Colby Smith
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Surveys were delayed and some cannot be collected at all, officials said, further complicating the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates next month.

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Incomplete data has major implications for central bank officials debating whether to lower interest rates for a third meeting in a row.
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December Rate Cut in Doubt as Fed Fault Lines Deepen, Minutes Show

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Par :Colby Smith
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The central bank’s decision to lower interest rates last month was more divisive than it first appeared as officials splintered over how to weigh a weakening labor market against rising inflation.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said recently that officials at the central bank held “strongly differing views.”
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