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Katie Porter Says She ‘Fell Short’ in Viral Video Moments

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Par :Laurel Rosenhall
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Videos surfaced last week showing the former congresswoman belittling a television reporter and berating an aide. Porter, who is running for California governor, pledged to do better.

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Katie Porter, a Democratic candidate for California governor, was seen cursing at one of her aides in a 2021 video and threatening to walk out of a recent television interview.
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Inmates Make Brazen Escape in Guatemala

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Par :Annie Correal and Jody García
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“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time.

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The Guatemalan interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, at a news conference on Monday.
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Trump Awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Par :Tyler Pager
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President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday.

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President Trump escorted Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, to a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday.
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In Patz Case, Manhattan Prosecutors Ask for Months to Decide on Retrial

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Par :Colin Moynihan
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The district attorney is searching for witnesses and plans to ask the Supreme Court to consider the Etan Patz case. A defense lawyer for the man accused in the killing says they’re dawdling.

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The Etan Patz case crystallized the dread that many parents felt in allowing children to navigate city streets alone.
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As Trump Hurls Fresh Threats and Insults, Hochul Has Mamdani’s Back

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Par :Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Nicholas Fandos
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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, appeared with Gov. Kathy Hochul for the first time since she endorsed him last month.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared in Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s district for an event on Tuesday, where she vowed to fight President Trump’s threats to withhold federal funding from New York.
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Trump Administration Guts Education Department With More Layoffs

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Par :Sarah Mervosh · Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein
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About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.

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An estimated 466 workers at the Education Department have been fired since Friday, and the breadth and depth of those cuts appeared to touch nearly all aspects of an agency that President Trump has vowed to eliminate.
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The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

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Par :Jack Tamisiea
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A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

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To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of scientists measured mammal specimens in museum collections.
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Gaza’s Brittle Cease-Fire

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Par :Whet Moser
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Plus, remembering D’Angelo. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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The Red Cross is helping to retrieve the bodies of hostages in Gaza.
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Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

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Par :Zachary Small
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The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.

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Participants in the protests will include (from left, first row), Laura Raicovich and Jenny Polak; (second row) Kris Grey, Dread Scott, Lynn Nottage and Ras Dia; (third row) Julia Jordan, Shanti Avirgan, Annie Dorsen, Tony Gerber, Miguel Luciano, Jed Rothstein and Cassils; (fourth row) Accra Shepp, Hari Kunzru, Larry Krone and Daniel Bejar.
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Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

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Par :Glenn Thrush and Annie Karni
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The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.

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Jack Smith in Washington in 2023. In his remarks released on Tuesday, Mr. Smith painted a dire picture of the Justice Department’s future. “Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on,” he said.
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Why Israel Won the War

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Par :Bret Stephens
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Israelis went to war to defeat an existential threat — and an existential lie.

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U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

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Par :Devlin Barrett and Michael S. Schmidt
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The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue the president’s perceived foes.

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Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was a longtime legislator in Virginia until he was sworn in as the top prosecutor for the state’s western district in July.
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D’Angelo: 14 Essential Songs

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Par :Jon Pareles
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The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.

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D’Angelo onstage at Bonnaroo in 2012. He could be a one-man studio band in the mold of Prince and Stevie Wonder, or multitrack himself to simulate the collective yowl and cackle of Funkadelic or Sly & the Family Stone.
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