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Nvidia’s Chief Says U.S. Chip Controls on China Have Backfired

Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s top executive, said the attempt to cut off the flow of advanced A.I. chips spurred Chinese companies to “accelerate their development.”

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“All in all, the export control was a failure,” Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, said at a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday.
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Trump Squeezes His Party on Domestic Policy Bill as G.O.P. Hunts for Votes

The president visited the weekly meeting of House Republicans to make the case for the legislation and pressure members of his party to fall into line. Later, negotiations with key holdouts appeared to be bearing fruit.

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President Trump, right, visited the Capitol on Tuesday to join Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans at their weekly closed-door meeting.
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Japanese Farm Minister Resigns After Saying He’d Never Bought Rice

The remark came in the midst of a rice shortage that has infuriated voters. “Frankly, my supporters give me quite a lot of rice,” said the minister, Taku Eto.

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Taku Eto, Japan’s agriculture minister, after meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo on Monday. Mr. Eto’s remark about rice created a furor ahead of a national election in July.
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Trump’s Tariffs Impede Malaysia’s Plan to Prepare for A.I.

A crucial cog in the global semiconductor industry, Malaysia aims to build high-end chips. It will have to contend with President Trump’s trade policy first.

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Workers at in a factory in Penang, Malaysia, last year. The Southeast Asian country wants to move from assembling and testing semiconductors into chip design and cutting-edge manufacturing.
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Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump

An assessment contradicted a presidential proclamation. A political appointee demanded a redo, then pushed for changes to the new analysis, too.

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In a March 24 email, Joe Kent, chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, said that it was necessary to “rethink” the intelligence assessment, according to multiple people who described it.
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O’Connor Wins Democratic Primary for Pittsburgh Mayor, Defeating Incumbent

The outcome is the latest in a string of losses in deep-blue cities that has raised questions about the power of progressive officeholders.

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Corey O’Connor had positioned himself as a pragmatic candidate who would get the city working again while it tried to rebuild a tax base devastated by the pandemic downturn in commercial real estate.
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Senate Democrats Grill Defiant Rubio on Trump Policies

There was shouting and gavel banging as Marco Rubio and his former Senate Democratic colleagues clashed over U.S. foreign aid.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was grilled by Democrats on Tuesday about the evisceration of U.S. foreign aid programs.
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RFK Jr.’s War on Pesticides Riles Farmers and a Republican Senator

A health report commissioned by President Trump has been causing angst within the agriculture industry who fear the chemicals will be identified as a driver of childhood disease.

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A Republican senator on Tuesday pointedly instructed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to interfere with the livelihood of American farmers by suggesting certain pesticides are unsafe.
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U.S.D.A. Approves Soda Ban for Food Stamps in Nebraska

The Trump administration approved a first of its kind waiver for Nebraska, allowing a ban on soda purchases through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, starting next year.

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins at the White House in May.
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Chip Roy, Demanding More Spending Cuts, Reprises Role as Ringleader of G.O.P. Rebels

The Texas Republican is leading the conservative revolt against what his party calls its “big, beautiful bill.” Whether he will dig in or relent could determine the measure’s fate.

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Representative Chip Roy of Texas is negotiating with House Speaker Mike Johnson and White House aides over the contents of what his party has called the “one big, beautiful bill.”
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Trump Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System

The project has been a priority for President Trump since he took office, having promised during the campaign to build a defense system against foreign threats similar to Israel’s Iron Dome.

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President Trump promised during the campaign to build an air defense system similar to Israel’s Iron Dome, that can intercept rockets and missiles.
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F.A.A. Restricts Newark Airport Flights to 56 an Hour

The temporary restrictions are being imposed after repeated flight delays and cancellations. The cap will increase to 68 flights per hour in mid-June.

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Newark Liberty International Airport in May. In recent months, the airport has experienced a series of technology outages, including a sudden failure of radio and radar systems last month.
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Judge Orders U.S. to Keep Custody of Migrants Amid Claims They Were Sent to South Sudan

In a chaotic hearing, Trump administration officials told a federal judge they did not know where a plane of deportees was going. The judge raised the possibility that he could order its return.

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A protest last week outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. The Trump administration has turned to countries to take on migrants from countries around the globe, and not necessarily their home country.
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Santa Fe Looks at New Release Policies to Prevent Prisoner Deaths

After a New York Times report found five deaths and several injuries among prisoners who walked along a remote highway after their release, county officials are weighing a range of safety options.

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Inmates who are released from Santa Fe County Adult Correctional Facility without transportation often walk miles along a dangerous stretch of highway.
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Hegseth Orders a New Review of U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

The defense secretary’s decision to select his chief spokesman to lead the inquiry into the chaotic end of the war was highly unusual.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed his chief spokesman to convene a panel to review the U.S. military’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Trump Told Republicans to Get in Line

Also, Israel’s allies told it to stop its expanded Gaza offensive. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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President Trump at the Capitol today with Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Trump Canceled Deportation Protections. Here’s Where Legal Challenges Stand.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to lift protections for thousands of Venezuelans, leaving them potentially vulnerable to deportation. What about people from other countries?

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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration, for now, to lift deportations protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants.
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Are You a European in a Housing Crunch? We Want to Hear From You.

To help us report on the housing crisis in Europe, we want to learn about the housing pressures you are dealing with, how they are affecting your community and how they are being solved.

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New social housing in Barcelona. Many European cities are struggling to keep up with the housing demand.
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George Wendt, a.k.a. Norm From ‘Cheers,’ Is Dead at 76

A burly, easygoing Chicago native, he became a staple of living rooms across the country for more than a decade as one of America’s favorite barflies.

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George Wendt, standing left, with the original cast of the long-running sitcom “Cheers.” Next to him are John Ratzenberger, center, and Nicholas Colasanto. Between Mr. Wendt and Mr. Colasanto is Rhea Perlman. In front are Shelley Long and Ted Danson.
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Trump Scolded Companies for Raising Prices. Do They Have a Choice?

Economists say companies generally have to pass along the cost of tariffs. But populists on the left and right say the president may have a point.

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A Walmart in Teterboro, N.J. President Trump wasn’t the first president to criticize companies for raising prices.
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E.U. to Lift Economic Sanctions on Syria

European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift the remaining economic curbs on the war-torn country, amid concerns it could slip back into conflict.

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A bazaar in the Old City of Damascus, Syria, on Monday. Lifting sanctions would be an economic game changer for the war-torn country.
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Hochul Apologizes to Native Americans for Boarding School Atrocities

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that “sanctioned ethnic cleansing” of Native American children.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul presented a proclamation to the Seneca president, J. Conrad Seneca, and to the Seneca Nation apologizing for the atrocities committed at the Thomas Indian School.
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A New System Aims to Save Injured Brains and Lives

Nearly 100 neurology experts collaborated on the creation of a new method of evaluating patients with traumatic brain injuries.

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A colorized C.T. scan of the brain of a 30-year-old male patient who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a car accident.
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