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Fan gatherings present opportunities to geek out with fellow enthusiasts. Can we cultivate some of that energy in everyday life?
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‘The Last of Us’: What to Remember Ahead of Season 2

Where did we last leave Joel and Ellie? Well, it was a little complicated. It was also over two years ago. Here’s a refresher.

© Liane Hentscher/HBO

Joel was a smuggler carrying a lot of pain when we caught up with him in 2023.
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Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems

His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Elon Musk following President Trump out of the Oval Office last month.
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Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE

More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

A flier calling for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, and Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University.
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Trade War Forces Tough Question for Retailers: Raise Prices or Eat the Cost?

A trade war with China and tariff threats on other countries are ramping up pressure on stores that sell products from overseas — which, for some categories, is just about all of them.

© Sasha Maslov for The New York Times

Vivian Hoffman owns several stores that sell apparel from China. Her suppliers are already raising prices because of tariffs.
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Trump’s Tariff and Immigration Policies: A Second-Term Power Play

After a week of court challenges — and market swings — The New York Times journalists Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Jonathan Swan discuss how President Trump is consolidating power in his second term.

© The New York Times

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In South Carolina, a Once Thriving Textile Hub Is Baffled by Trump’s Tariffs

The Upstate region of South Carolina was saved by foreign companies after the fall of its textile industry. Now, tariffs pose another round of uncertainty.

© Will Crooks for The New York Times

Union County, S.C., has not fared nearly as well as nearby areas in reviving its economy after the textile industry collapsed. But in recent years it has recruited some companies, and many locals don’t want to turn back the clock.
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Newsom Tries to Understand ‘Bro Culture.’ Will It Change Him in the Process?

California’s governor has diagnosed one problem for Democrats — connecting with young men — and he sees his podcast as a way to address that. Other Democrats aren’t so sure.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom has used his new podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom,” to talk with conservatives and liberals about concepts of masculinity.
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Fear Shadows Many Children in Immigrant Families

Heightened immigration enforcement is stirring anxiety among children whose parents are vulnerable to deportation. “Every day I worry they could take my mom.”

© Jimena Peck for The New York Times

Nine million children live in U.S. households with at least one noncitizen adult who could be affected by immigration enforcement.
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Before a Fatal Helicopter Crash, 2 Midair Breakdowns and Unpaid Bills

The charter firm whose helicopter plunged into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five, had been struggling financially, records show.

© Adam Gray for The New York Times

Federal investigators were working to determine the cause of the crash, which killed the pilot and a family of five on a sightseeing tour.
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Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture

The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.

Ammar al-Baluchi at Guantánamo Bay in 2024 in an image provided by his lawyers. He is accused of sending money and providing other support to some of the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
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For Taiwan’s Small Exporters, the Uncertainty’s as Bad as the Tariffs

The island’s many small factories have thrived by being frugal — and flexible. But President Trump’s unpredictability is testing their limits.

Alex Tang, right, employs about a dozen people at Aegis CNC, which makes manufacturing equipment in Taichung, Taiwan. He does not export directly to the United States, but many of his customers do.
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What to Know About U.S. Talks With Iran Over Its Nuclear Program

The two sides are set to negotiate on Saturday, but expectations for a breakthrough are modest, and distrust is high.

© Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

People marching with anti-American banners in Tehran on Friday ahead of the U.S. talks with Iran in Oman.
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Boeing Helped Power Russia’s Economy. Could It Return?

Moscow is hinting that the company would be welcomed back as part of a thaw under President Trump. Industry skepticism runs deep.

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Rossiya Airlines Boeing 747 airliners at Moscow’s main international airport in 2021. Boeing shut its operations in Russia months later, after the invasion of Ukraine.
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After L.A. Fires, Edison Wants to Bury Power Lines in Altadena and Malibu

Southern California Edison is echoing calls from homeowners to move spark-prone electrical equipment underground. Company officials estimated the cost at more than $650 million.

© Stephen Ross Goldstein for The New York Times

Transmission towers in Eaton Canyon in Altadena, Calif. Southern California Edison, an electric utility, said it planned to bury power lines in fire-prone areas.
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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.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

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.

© Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press

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.

© South Carolina Dept. of Corrections, via Associated Press

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.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

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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