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Radiation May Be Unnecessary for Many Breast Cancer Patients

Doctors have already begun reducing radiation treatment for women at low risk of recurrence or spread of the disease. A new study finds that some women at greater risk can safely avoid radiation.

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Researchers followed 1,600 women for a median of 9.6 years and found that survival rates were similar in two groups of patients: 81.4 percent among the patients who had received radiation treatment and 81.9 percent among those who had not.
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Democrats Raise Concerns After Trump Officials Give Boat Strikes Briefing

The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump’s expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.

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A top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee lamented that lawmakers were not given a “strike-by-strike” breakdown.
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Republicans Point Fingers After Election Losses, but Not at Trump

Casting around for culprits, leaders in the party blamed their candidates, the government shutdown and a weak economic message.

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Republicans have a favorable midterm map, but this week’s elections provided new evidence that President Trump’s leadership in Washington is causing a backlash from voters.
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Trump vs. Mamdani: President Sees a Capable Foil in New York’s Next Mayor

President Trump has berated Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, in public. But privately, Mr. Trump describes him as slick and a good talker.

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Zohran Mamdani at an election watch party in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. He addressed the president in his victory speech, saying, “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
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An Emboldened Mamdani Sheds Conciliatory Tone

Fresh from a stunning victory, Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, said in an interview that his supporters wanted “a politics of consistency” and aggressive action, including on taxing the rich.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has called to raise taxes on the wealthy to help fund his ambitious policy agenda. In an interview after his election, he said it was also about fairness.
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Judge Sets Limits on Chicago-Area ICE Facility at Center of Illinois Protests

After detainees described squalid conditions at the detention site, a judge ordered the government to provide showers, water, clean toilets and access to lawyers.

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Federal law enforcement agents guarding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill.
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Remains of the Last American Hostage Held in Gaza Returned to Israel

Israeli officials told Itay Chen’s family last year that he was probably killed on Oct. 7, 2023, but relatives put off mourning until his body had come home.

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Ruby Chen commemorating his son Itay Chen at a candlelight vigil on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Trump Administration Ends Deportation Protections for South Sudanese

The program was first authorized for South Sudanese nationals in 2011. The Department of Homeland Security said that “renewed peace in South Sudan” and “improved diplomatic relations” justified the move.

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan. In recent weeks, the United Nations has warned of escalating armed clashes and food insecurity that is “widespread and deepening” in parts of the country.
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Democrats Dig In on Shutdown After Election Wins

President Trump’s declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats’ resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.

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Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, speaking at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington

Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has built a close relationship with President Trump, who has groused about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has cultivated a close relationship with President Trump, visiting the White House several times this year and presenting him with gifts.
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Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History

First, Texas redistricted. Other states followed, and now California. Some legal experts say it’s a crisis: “The wheels are coming off the car right now.”

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California voters on Tuesday passed Proposition 50, which could create as many as five new Democratic-leaning districts for the 2026 midterm elections.
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How Trade Tensions Sent Automakers Scrambling for Chips

Carmakers and their suppliers are piecing together new supply chains after a Chinese-owned company in the Netherlands was caught in the middle of the trade war, revealing European vulnerabilities.

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Mercedes-Benz’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Mercedes, Stellantis and Nissan have formed task forces to keep production running and secure alternative chip supplies.
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France Moves to Block the Shein Website Over a Sex Doll Scandal

The crackdown, ordered by the prime minister, added to the controversy over the Chinese fast-fashion retailer as it opened its first store in Paris amid chaotic scenes.

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French police secure the area outside the BHV Marais department store in Paris during a protest on the opening day of Shein’s first physical store.
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Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey

The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.

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Former F.B.I. director James B. Comey as he appeared during the hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017.
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