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Judge Says One DOGE Member Can Access Sensitive Treasury Dept. Data

Nineteen state attorneys general had sued to block Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing Treasury systems that include Americans’ bank account and Social Security information.

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, team has been seeking access to the Treasury Department’s systems and data.
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Menendez Brothers Win Ruling in Bid for Resentencing

The men, who killed their parents in 1989, are pursuing several efforts to be released after decades in prison.

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Mark Geragos, a lawyer for Erik and Lyle Menendez, speaking in Los Angeles on Friday, after a judge cleared the way for additional hearings in the brothers’ bid to be resentenced.
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Mikal Mahdi Executed by Firing Squad in South Carolina

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

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This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair.
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F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List

The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

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Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, told senators that the agency would not engage in retribution under his command.
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Joseph Boskin, Scholar of Humor and April Fool’s Prankster, Dies at 95

To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”

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Joseph Boskin in his Boston University office in 1999. His credentials as an authority on humor got him involved in one of the kookiest episodes in the annals of April Fools’ tomfoolery.
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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

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Weather analysis at NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Md., in December.
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Bond Market is Upended by Trump’s Tariffs

In the usually steady government bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has risen to about 4.5 percent from less than 4 percent at the end of last week.

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The price of government bonds, issued by the U.S. Treasury, fell on Friday, while yields rose sharply.
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Investigation Into Hudson Helicopter Crash Just Getting Underway

Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board said it would most likely be some time before a cause of the crash that killed six people could be determined.

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Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters: “Everything is on the table — we don’t rule anything out.”
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Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump

Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.

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Kirkland & Ellis is one of the law firms that recently reached a deal with the White House to provide free legal work to causes that President Trump supports.
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Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians

More than 10,000 people will be put on track for deportation in May and June as a result of the Department of Homeland Security’s action.

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A shelter for refugees in Portland, Maine, one of many such facilities across the country for people fleeing instability in their home countries.
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N.Y.C. Primary Voters Can Rank 5 Candidates. Many Have Heard of Only 2.

New York City voters have nine Democrats to consider in this year’s mayoral primary, a crowded race made more complicated by the return of ranked-choice voting.

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New York City voters got their first taste of ranked-choice voting in the June 2021 citywide primary elections.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

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Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy can check out copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler but not “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou.
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EU Countries Go on Tariff Defense

The uncertainty of higher tariffs has spurred Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain to announce financial lifelines for businesses and workers. More countries are expected to follow.

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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, left, and President Xi Jinping of China meeting Friday in Beijing.
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U.S. and Ukraine Reopen Talks on Contentious Minerals Deal

Kyiv and Washington have been haggling over a deal for resource rights that President Trump sees as a way to “recoup” past U.S. aid to Ukraine.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a contentious White House meeting with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February.
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Growing Cannabis on the Old Family Farm

When Lucas Kerr decided to revive the farm that had been in his family for seven generations, he chose to plant weed, grown in New York and sold to New Yorkers.

Lucas Kerr, who started the cannabis operation at Torrwood Farm, said he has found that, in New York, there’s strong demand for cannabis products grown within the state.
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Who Wants to Run Vanity Fair? Everyone? Anyone?

Radhika Jones is stepping down as editor in chief, and the search for her replacement has begun. But as the magazine industry has contracted, many of the more decadent parts of the job are long gone.

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There are few more prominent roles in American journalism than the editor of Vanity Fair.
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Swept Out of Office by Covid, a Democratic Governor Eyes a Comeback

Steve Sisolak, the former governor of Nevada, says he is weighing a rematch against Gov. Joe Lombardo, the Republican who ousted him in 2022.

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Former Gov. Steve Sisolak of Nevada was the only Democratic incumbent governor to lose in the 2022 midterm elections.
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