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Education Department Investigates Scholarships for DACA Students

The department said it was examining whether universities that provide financial help for children who arrived in the country as undocumented immigrants are discriminating against U.S. citizens.

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The Department of Education said it would investigate five universities for offering scholarships to students who came to the United States as unauthorized immigrants.
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Gabbard Releases New Documents Targeting Obama Administration

The director of national intelligence has intensified attacks on assessments about Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.

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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has contended that the intelligence work in 2016 was not only flawed but also amounted to a conspiracy against President Trump.
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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

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Judge Yuji Iwasawa, president of the International Court of Justice, read out the court’s climate opinion on Wednesday in The Hague.
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U.S. Homes Are Not Selling, and Prices Continue to Rise

June, usually the height of the spring housing season, saw sales of existing homes drop from the previous month, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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The housing market faltered last month as prices rose and buyers bowed out.
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Trump’s Tariffs Are the Highest in a Century. But After His Threats, They Seem Like a Relief.

The president imposed tariffs on Japan, one of America’s closest allies, that would have been alarming just months ago. And markets went up.

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The key to clinching a trade deal between the United States and Japan appeared to be President Trump’s agreement to lower tariffs for Japanese cars to 15 percent, a rate that would have been shocking not long ago.
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U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

PEPFAR, the campaign to end H.I.V. globally, would morph into an effort to detect disease outbreaks and sell American products, according to documents obtained by The Times.

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Dispensing an antiretroviral drug used to treat H.I.V. at the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya, in February.
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Targeting Obama, Trump’s Retribution Campaign Takes Another Turn

After focusing his second-term ire on other individuals and institutions, President Trump is again seeking prosecution of his most prominent rivals — this time with aides more inclined to carry out his wishes.

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President Trump on Tuesday resurfaced his grievances against former President Barack Obama and others he associated with what he considers a long campaign of persecution.
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Tesla Earnings Expected to Show Falling Profit as Car Sales Slow

Elon Musk has said that robotaxis are the company’s future, but most revenue still comes from cars.

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Some investors are concerned that Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, is neglecting the car business while he focuses the company’s resources on autonomous driving software, self-driving taxis and humanoid robots.
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Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand

In an “A.I. Action Plan,” the White House outlined steps it said would promote American dominance in the fast-growing technology.

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President Trump last week. His new executive order included the A.I. Action Plan, which contains policy guidelines to encourage the growth of the artificial intelligence industry in the United States.
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N.J. Takeover of Paterson Police Department Was Lawful, Court Rules

The State Supreme Court decision, overturning an earlier ruling, will allow the New Jersey attorney general to maintain control over the troubled Paterson Police Department.

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The attorney general of New Jersey, Matthew J. Platkin, seized control of the Paterson Police Department in 2023.
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American Convicted of Murder Among Those Trump Rescued From Venezuela Prison

The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents.

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A photo released on social media by the State Department shows some of the 10 freed Americans who had been detained in Venezuela as they returned to the United States this month. Dahud Hanid Ortiz is at center right, holding a small flag.
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Deferring to Trump, Senate Pulls Back on New Russia Sanctions

Republican leaders said they were ready to vote as soon as this month on punishing penalties against Moscow but have paused after President Trump threatened to act unilaterally within weeks.

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By pausing a push for new sanctions against Russia, the Senate has effectively frozen its effort to apply economic pressure on President Vladimir V. Putin.
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To Build Affordable Housing, One State Could Loosen Flood Protections

New Jersey officials are tinkering with the state’s ambitious climate regulations amid a housing crisis. Activists say that economically vulnerable residents could suffer.

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New Jersey is poised to become one of the first states to incorporate concerns over climate change into its building code.
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State Dept. Opens Investigation Into Harvard’s Use of International Visas

The Trump administration has continued to pressure the university despite continuing talks to settle a monthslong dispute over the federal government’s role in higher education.

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Harvard has been given a one-week deadline by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to produce a lengthy list of university records related to the Exchange Visitor Program.
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