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Dispute Over Golden Globes Heats Up

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which ran the awards show until a couple of years ago, has voted to investigate the deal that sold the event to a joint venture.

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Helen Hoehne, center, the president of the company that runs the Golden Globes, at the event's red carpet rollout in January.
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Mexico Confirms Arrest Warrant for Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr.

The well-known Mexican boxer was detained by U.S. immigration agents in California on Wednesday, days after fighting a high-profile contest against the former YouTuber Jake Paul.

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The Department of Homeland Security said in its statement that Julio César Chávez Jr. was “also believed to be an affiliate of the Sinaloa Cartel.”
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections.

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The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.
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These Republicans Savaged Their Party’s Bill, Then Voted for It

Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump’s marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost right up until the moment they voted for it.

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Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, had been blunt about his concerns about the Medicaid cuts. Still, he voted yes.
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Appeals Court Lets Trump Remove Another Democrat From Independent Agency

The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.

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Susan Tsui Grundmann was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and confirmed by the Senate in 2022 for a five-year term.
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​North Korea Beach Resort Opens With Fanfare but No Foreigners

The Kalma Beach resort town, one of Kim Jong-un’s most ambitious projects aimed at attracting foreign tourists, may not draw the waves of visitors he wants.

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The Wonsan Kalma tourist area in North Korea this week. Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, had hoped it would bring in foreign currency.
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Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in already-hot rivers.

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The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, one of two nuclear stations shut down in the past week.
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In Europe, Economists See a Chance to Rise on the Global Stage

Central bankers who gathered in Portugal this week focused on ways that Europe could improve its competitiveness with the United States and China.

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, on Tuesday at the bank’s forum in Sintra, Portugal, which had a sense of calm amid the chaos in the world.
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Around Los Angeles, ICE Raids Are Casting a Shadow on July 4th Plans

Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.

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Bell Gardens, Calif., canceled its Independence Day party, a tradition for much of the past 30 years.
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Patricia Peterson, Innovative Fashion Editor at The Times, Dies at 99

She oversaw fashion coverage beginning in 1957, when hemlines made headlines. She later made groundbreaking ads for Henri Bendel with her photographer husband, Gösta Peterson.

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Patricia Peterson in 1963. At The New York Times, she documented a changing culture as it was expressed through fashion. “That was what was so exciting,” she said. “It wasn’t just Seventh Avenue or Paris, it was life around us.”
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Mr. Big Is Alive and Well and Married in Vermont

The real-life inspiration for the famous toxic bachelor on “Sex and the City” left the Big Apple for the Green Mountain state.

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Ron Galotti, perhaps best known as the inspiration for Mr. Big in “Sex and the City” left the New York media world for 50 acres in Vermont.
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E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats

The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.

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An albino rat at a medical test facility. Critters like rats and zebra fish are commonly used to test the toxicity of chemicals.
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He Made Green-Wood Cemetery a Destination for the Living

Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in his nearly 40 years as president. Now he’s ready to retire.

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Richard J. Moylan got a job cutting grass at Green-Wood Cemetery during law school in the 1970s. He stayed until last week.
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Greece Wildfire Forces Evacuation of 1,500 People From Island of Crete

Most of those fleeing the blaze were tourists. Firefighters struggled against heavy winds to bring the flames under control.

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More than 200 firefighters battled a blaze in the Greek island of Crete, but their work was made more difficult by heavy winds and rugged mountain terrain.
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How Will Trump Sell His Big Policy Bill to the American Public?

President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to the public as Democrats focus on all the ways it helps the wealthy.

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President Trump has told Republicans he wants to sign the bill by Friday.
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Trump Wants the World to Squeeze Out China. He’s Starting With Vietnam.

An initial trade deal with Vietnam offers a glimpse of how President Trump is pushing countries to cut back on trade with China.

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Goods for export loaded on a container at a logistics hub in Yiwu, China, China has used Vietnam and other neighboring countries to circumvent American tariffs on its goods.
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Wall Street’s New Obsession (and Dilemma): Tokenizing Companies

Robinhood is the latest to offer investors a novel, and potentially risky, investment opportunity: crypto that’s meant to give exposure to the likes of OpenAI.

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Robinhood is looking to shake up investing again — this time with the so-called tokenization of private companies.
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Israel and Syria in U.S.-Brokered Talks to End Border Conflict, Trump Envoy Says

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing economic development over nation-building in the Middle East.

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Thomas J. Barrack Jr., third from left, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, is in his first diplomatic job at age 78.
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