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Why Is California So Chilly This Summer?

It’s been so cold in San Francisco, painters on the Golden Gate Bridge had to break out heaters.

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Because of San Francisco’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean, temperatures tend to stay cool there, even as inland areas roast. This summer, that nip in the air has been felt as far as the Sacramento Valley.
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Newsom Wants to Gerrymander California. Schwarzenegger May Disagree.

As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state’s nonpartisan redistricting system. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause it to help Democrats.

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After leaving the governor’s office, Arnold Schwarzenegger lobbied other states to adopt nonpartisan systems to draw congressional maps.
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In Tense Hearing, Texas Republicans Defend Redrawn Political Map

The legislative hearing was part of a rapidly moving redistricting process, pushed by President Trump, that could see the map approved next week.

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State Representative Chris Turner during a public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas, on Friday.
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For Some, Return of Presidential Fitness Test Revives Painful Memories

Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment.

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President Trump’s announcement that he was reviving the Presidential Fitness Test stirred up powerful memories for Americans who were forced to complete the annual measure of their physical abilities.
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Gaza War Protesters Arrested at Offices of Schumer and Gillibrand

Dozens of demonstrators, calling for a flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, were arrested at the Manhattan offices of New York’s two senators.

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The protesters, organized by the antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, chanted and banged pots and pans in the lobby of the Midtown Manhattan building where both senators have offices.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.

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Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat of California, referred to the character Elmo during a congressional hearing about funding for public broadcasting in March.
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Trump Turns to Untested Tariffs to Reorder Global Trade

President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan.

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Economists remain skeptical that President Trump’s approach to tariffs will work as he intends.
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Florida Is Buying Plane Tickets for Unauthorized Immigrants to Self-Deport

Immigrants in custody, with no felony convictions, may be offered direct commercial flights home — and avoid “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis said that unauthorized immigrants could avoid being taken to the state-run detention center in the Everglades if they chose to self-deport.
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States Sue Over Trump Efforts to End Pediatric Transgender Medical Care

The lawsuit comes amid escalating efforts by the U.S. government to restrict the availability of certain services for transgender adolescents.

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Transgender care for adolescents has become a flashpoint along with other medical services, including abortion, medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide.
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Putin Blames Frustration Over Ukraine Talks on ‘Inflated Expectations’

The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.

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Ukrainian firefighters in the courtyard of a tuberculosis hospital after a Russian bomb struck its roof in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in July.
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Mike Donilon Had $4 Million Incentive to Secure a 2024 Biden Win

Mike Donilon was promised a bonus that would have doubled his payment for work on the campaign if the former president had been re-elected.

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Mike Donilon was among former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s aides who resisted calls for him to end his re-election campaign, even after a damaging debate performance.
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How U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer

The decision to free an American convicted of murder in a prisoner swap with Venezuela threatened to undercut President Trump’s claims of keeping the worst of the worst out of the United States.

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Michael Kozak, a senior State Department diplomat, wondered in an email exchange whether, having obtained the freedom of Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. Army veteran convicted of murdering three people in Madrid in 2016, the U.S. government might extradite him to Spain.
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Robert Wilson Expanded Our Sense of Theatrical Possibility

Wilson, who died this week at 83, created works of otherworldly dreaminess that were also deeply human.

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“Einstein on the Beach,” Robert Wilson’s influential collaboration with the composer Philip Glass from 1976. It was revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012.
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