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Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People

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Par :Isabella Kwai
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Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.

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Health care workers conducted drive-through measles tests outside a hospital in Seminole, Texas, on Friday.

Comparing Elon Musk and Jack Welch as Influential Cost-Cutters

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Par :William D. Cohan
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Elon Musk’s hyperfocus on the bottom line has made him influential in Washington and Silicon Valley. How does that compare with the last famous cost-cutter, Jack Welch?

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Elon Musk is perhaps the most influential corporate cost-cutter since Jack Welch led General Electric.

Fail, Caesar!

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Par :Maureen Dowd
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We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.

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Lost Causes

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Par :Melissa Kirsch
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When we lose things, it’s tempting to think we need to keep better track of them, to hold on to stuff more tightly. What if the opposite is true?

Big Day for Crypto Goes South After Bybit Hack

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Par :David Yaffe-Bellany
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Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.

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Bybit, run by Ben Zhou, shown speaking at a conference in December, said it had been hit by a billion-dollar theft.

Global Right-Wing Leaders Revel in a Renewed Fight, Supercharged by Trump

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Par :Charles Homans
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Emissaries of far-right parties overseas, gathering this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, described a resurgence spanning continents, buoyed by the U.S. president.

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Nigel Farage, a key figure in the Brexit campaign of 2016, was one of several leaders of right-wing movements around the world who spoke this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington.

Investigations Into 6 Killings Look to a Fringe Group Known as the Zizians

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Par :Remy Tumin and Kate Christobek
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The violent deaths, including of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont, a landlord in California, and a couple in Pennsylvania, have led law enforcement to a group with obscure ideas.

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Teresa Youngblut, lower right, has been charged in connection with a shooting in which a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in Coventry, Vt. Felix Bauckholt, top, who was traveling with Youngblut, was also killed in that confrontation in January.

How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk

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Par :Nicholas Nehamas · Ryan Mac and Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

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Karen Ortiz, an administrative law judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said her ability to send emails was shut off after she sent an agencywide message calling on the commission’s acting chair to resign.

As Conflict Rages in Congo, President Offers U.S. Minerals Deal

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Par :Ruth Maclean
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As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals deal with the United States.

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President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo arriving to cast his vote at a polling station in Kinshasa in 2023.

In Syria, Joy at al-Assad’s Demise Turns to Fear of Israeli Raids

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Par :Raja Abdulrahim
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Villagers say they worry that incursions into border areas of Syria by Israel’s military could turn into a prolonged occupation. Israel says the raids are needed to protect the border.

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Children heading home from school in the Syrian village of Suwaisah, where people fear that Israel’s incursions into their country could become a long-term occupation.

What Musk’s Chain Saw at CPAC Was Really About

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Par :Jess Bidgood
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Waving a chain saw onstage at CPAC, Elon Musk showed how he has emulated a right-wing leader.

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Elon Musk, left, and President Javier Milei of Argentina at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington on Thursday.

William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102

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Par :Trip Gabriel
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The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he failed to pass on warnings from engineers that the space shuttle launch was at risk.

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William R. Lucas, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, in 1986, speaking to a presidential commission investigating the Challenger explosion. The center supervised the design and building of the booster rocket whose failure caused the accident.

Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer

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Par :John Ismay
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Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.

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Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, during a media conference in Perth, Australia, in July 2024.

Colorado Snowboarder Becomes Fourth Avalanche Victim in a Week

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Par :Neil Vigdor
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The victim was traveling on a terrain feature known as The Nose near Silverton, Colo., when the avalanche occurred on Thursday, officials said.

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A snowboarder was killed in an avalanche on Thursday in Colorado, the fourth person to die that way this week in the West, officials said.

Trump Administration Shakes Up ICE Leadership

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Par :Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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The leadership change comes as the president aims to make good on a promise of mass deportations and arrests of undocumented immigrants across the United States.

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ICE agents, in conjunction with the local authorities, detained a person in Denver, during immigration raids earlier this month.

Voletta Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother, Dies at 78

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Par :Joe Coscarelli
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She played the rapper music as a child, stood by his side during his meteoric career and navigated the legal and artistic questions that arose after his killing.

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Voletta Wallace in 2022. She was forced into the hip-hop spotlight after her son, the rapper the Notorious B.I.G., died at 24 in a drive-by shooting.

Supreme Court Rejects, for Now, Trump’s Bid to Fire Government Watchdog

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Par :Adam Liptak
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The court’s order indicated that it may return to the issue as soon as next week, when a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set to expire.

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The Supreme Court split in its ruling, with two liberal justices noting that they would have rejected the Trump administration’s request outright and two conservatives filing a dissent.
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