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After an Earthquake, These Elephants Knew Exactly Whom to Follow: Mom

A video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park taken during an earthquake put complex elephant herd dynamics on display.

© San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, via Associated Press

An image taken from video released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance showing a herd of elephants forming a circle to shield the two calves, Zuli and Mkhaya, during an earthquake on Monday.
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Sarah Palin’s Libel Trial Against The New York Times Begins

In opening statements, lawyers for Sarah Palin and The Times each presented arguments on whether the editorial board had published a statement knowing it was false.

© Andres Kudacki for The New York Times

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and onetime Republican vice-presidential nominee, filed a lawsuit against The New York Times in 2017.
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Adams Is Letting ICE Into Rikers. The City Council Is Suing to Stop Him.

A lawsuit argues that an executive order that City Hall issued last week is “part of a corrupt quid pro quo bargain” between Mayor Eric Adams of New York and President Trump.

© Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, is allowing federal immigration agents to re-establish a presence at Rikers Island after being banned from the jail complex in 2014.
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Columbia Vows to Reject Any Trump Deal That Erodes Its Independence

A message from the university’s acting president said that talks with the Trump administration were continuing as the White House is seeking to place the school under judicial oversight.

© Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The New York Times

Claire Shipman, Columbia’s acting president, issued a statement late Monday, hours after the president of Harvard offered a defiant response to demands from the Trump administration.
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Senators Investigate Private Equity Role in Soaring Fire-Truck Costs

Fire departments say prices for new engines have soared and orders are backlogged for years. Two senators are investigating whether investors who have disrupted the industry are the reason.

© Fred Greaves/Reuters

The Los Angeles Fire Department maintenance yard, packed with vehicles that are out of service.
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Trump Has Targeted Universities Like Harvard, Cornell, Columbia. Why?

President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.

© Hannah Beier for The New York Times

Princeton is one of seven prominent universities that have been singled out by the Trump administration for funding cuts.
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Trump Grows Increasingly Combative in Showdowns With the Courts

Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The Trump administration has responded contentiously to orders from the Supreme Court and lower courts alike.
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JD Vance Predicts Trump Will Make Trade Deal With UK

The vice president did not offer details, but his comments may offer British leaders some comfort after the Trump administration imposed tariffs.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in February.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks

Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

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Most medications consumed in the United States are produced at least partly overseas. China and India do most of the production of cheaper generic drugs, while expensive patented medications are more often made in Europe or the United States.
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Van Gogh’s Last Painting Poses a Problem for an Idyllic French Village

It was recently determined that the artist painted his final work, “Tree Roots,” in Auvers-sur-Oise. The roots still exist, igniting a fight over their preservation.

© Elliott Verdier for The New York Times

Auvers-sur-Oise, long famous as an artist’s paradise, is embroiled in a dispute over “Tree Roots,” lately determined to be the final work of Vincent Van Gogh.
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Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

© Cristobal Olivares for The New York Times

Nathali Sánchez, the wife of Arturo Suárez, a migrant sent to prison in El Salvador, with her daughter in Santiago, Chile.
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Who Are the Venezuelan Deportees Sent to El Salvador?

Who are the 238 Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration without due process to El Salvador’s maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center? Julie Turkewitz, a bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what her team’s investigation reveals about the deportees, their criminal records and how they were selected for deportation.
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Harvey Weinstein, Facing New Charge, Returns to Court in New York

The disgraced Hollywood producer will face a new trial for sex crimes in New York after a previous conviction was reversed last year.

© Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

In his new trial, Harvey Weinstein faces an additional charge of sexually assaulting an unidentified woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
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A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations

Britain was edging closer to China, but a dispute at a Chinese-owned steel company in the U.K. may prompt a rethink.

© Dominic Lipinski/Reuters

A view of the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Monday. They are the last working blast furnaces in Britain, producing crude steel which is vital for major construction projects.
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What Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?

China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

© David Gray/Reuters

A smelting workshop in China’s Inner Mongolia in 2010. The vast majority of the world’s supply of rare earths is mined in China.
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In Canada’s Fight With Trump, Danielle Smith Is Playing Good Cop

Danielle Smith, the premier of the oil-rich province of Alberta, takes pride in her MAGA ties. As her country faces existential threats from President Trump, she thinks her party and her province stand to gain.

© Amber Bracken for The New York Times

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a provincial government office building in Calgary, Alberta, in February.
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