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Trump Administration Abandons Fight to Ban Powerful Gun Accessory

The device, called a forced-reset trigger, allows semiautomatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds. The Biden administration had sought to block them from being sold.

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Forced-reset triggers, which allow gun owners to fire semiautomatic weapons at great speed, are similar to a bump stock. President Trump banned bump stocks during his first term.
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Trump Tells Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’ After Retailer Says Prices Could Rise

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is just one of several companies that have said they will be forced to pass on the costs of President Trump’s global tariffs to consumers.

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Walmart said on Thursday that President Trump’s tariffs would push the company to start raising prices soon.
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Rare Chicago Dust Storm Turns Day Into Night

Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.

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A dust storm approaching Normal, Ill., on Friday. Visibility dropped to a quarter-mile at Chicago Midway International Airport.
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Biden’s Interview With Hur Confirms What Many Suspected

The former president’s halting responses to questions by a special counsel show him exactly as a majority of Americans believed him to be — and as Democrats repeatedly insisted he was not.

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In the days after the special counsel’s report was released, Democrats fanned out to vouch for President Biden. Administration officials asserted executive privilege in declining to release the audio recording.
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What Has Changed Since Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed? Not Much.

Two years later, no major legislation or regulation has passed, and the basic problem that caused the crisis persists.

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Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March 2023, followed quickly by two other lenders, Signature Bank and First Republic.
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A Haven for High School Girls’ Wrestling, Filled With Grit and Pride

The Lucha Wrestling Club in the Bronx provides a safe place for an aggressive sport. The Bronx has more public high school girls’ teams than any other New York City borough.

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The level of wrestling in New York City can be as good it is anywhere in the United States. But in the Bronx, practices and matches have a decidedly different feel.
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What if a Grocery Store Was More Like a Farmers’ Market?

A farm stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., has found success with its local-first approach. But is the model replicable?

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Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., follows a farmers’ market meets grocery store model that makes it easier to shop locally and support small farms.
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Steve Kiner, Linebacker Who Was Open About Drug Use, Is Dead at 77

He was a star at the University of Tennessee when he began using LSD, mescaline and other drugs. He said he got clean while playing in the N.F.L.

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Steve Kiner in 1971. An All-American linebacker at the University of Tennessee, he went on to play for three N.F.L. teams, despite a serious drug problem. “I was doing acid every day,” he told The New York Times in 1974, “or coke or mescaline, anything I could get my hands on.”
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New Jersey Transit Strike: Negotiations Resume a Day Earlier Than Expected

Agency executives and union representatives met Saturday afternoon, a day earlier than expected. A meeting with the National Mediation Board is scheduled for Sunday.

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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike on Friday after contract negotiations with New Jersey Transit broke down.
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At Mexico’s 2 Legal Gun Shops, a Conflicted View of Firearms Is on Display

While Mexicans have a right to own guns, they can only be legally bought at two military-run and tightly regulated stores, an effort to better control possession in a country awash with black market weapons.

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“Acquiring a gun legally is very satisfying because I know I’m doing things right,” said Eduardo Ignacio García Zavala, 32, who waited three months for his paperwork to be approved and then drove overnight from Zapopan in western Mexico to Mexico City to add a new precision rifle to his collection.
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The Global Happiness Curve Is Collapsing. What Does That Mean?

For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve: Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that curve is starting to flatten. Christina Caron, a Well reporter, explains.
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Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine

Many Russian soldiers say they would see a cease-fire along the current front lines as a failure, hinting at the nationalist discontent the Kremlin could face in accepting a cease-fire.

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Russian soldiers who served in the military campaign in Ukraine taking part this month in a parade in Moscow celebrating Victory Day, the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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Spring Fling

Spring cleaning clears space in our homes and heads. How will we fill it?
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Supreme Court Retains Temporary Block on Using Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

The justices sent the case back to a lower court to consider whether the Alien Enemies Act can be used to deport immigrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang.

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The Supreme Court’s order keeps in place a freeze on deportations that the justices had first imposed in April, as the president’s power to use the wartime act is weighed further.
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India Is Accused of Inhumane Deportation of Rohingya Refugees

The allegations, which include being pushed into the sea off Myanmar with only life jackets, have prompted a call from the United Nations for an investigation.

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Rohingya refugees at a camp on the outskirts of Chennai, India, last year.
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Trump Wants an Iran Deal, but It May Be Weaker Than His Supporters Demand

Iran rejects any deal that would ban it from any nuclear enrichment, long a demand of U.S. conservatives.

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An anti-American mural on the side of a building in Tehran last month. Arab leaders been urging President Trump to find a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear program.
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‘Whom Shall I Fear?’ In South Texas, Two Bakers Face Trump’s Immigration Wrath.

A raid on Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos heralded the crackdown to come. Ahead of the owners’ trial for “harboring” undocumented workers, the community is seeing the impact of the president’s policies.

Jessica Castro selected treats from a case at Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. “They need us,” she said of the business.
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Zohran Mamdani Courts Cool Crowd in New York Mayoral Campaign

Voguish downtowners are aligning themselves with Zohran Mamdani, a young assemblyman vying for New York mayor. Can their clout help a long-shot campaign?

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The mayoral candidate backstage at a rally at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in East Williamsburg.
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Apple’s Alibaba A.I. Deal Provokes Washington’s Resistance

The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company’s artificial intelligence on iPhones.

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White House and congressional officials have been scrutinizing Apple’s plan to strike a deal to make Alibaba’s A.I. available on iPhones.
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Biden Faces Renewed Scrutiny After Release of Special Counsel Audio

A 2023 audio recording released by Axios comes on the heels of other recent disclosures that have prompted recriminations among Democrats over their handling of the matter.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 2024, after he dropped his re-election bid.
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Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research

The proposed termination of medical research funded by the V.A. is part of the Trump administration’s broader pressure campaign against the university.

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Under the leadership of Doug Collins, the Department of Veterans Affairs has pledged to cut costs by canceling contracts and slashing more than 80,000 jobs, or roughly a sixth of its total work force.
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