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In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

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Sifting for belongings after a tornado blew through Plantersville, Ala., in March. That tornado outbreak caused $10.6 billion in damage, one of this year’s costliest disasters.
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Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at the company campus in Menlo Park, Calif., last month. Meta has hired aggressively to build A.I. in recent years.
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Maine U.S. Senate Candidate Apologizes for Tattoo With Nazi Links

Graham Platner, a Democrat, said he would remove the tattoo. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.

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Graham Platner at the oyster farm he helps run off Frenchman Bay in Maine. He is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine as a Democrat.
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Le Heist

How thieves were able to pull off an audacious robbery of priceless jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight.

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Sealing off the entrance to the Louvre on Sunday. The thieves left the museum by climbing back down the ladder, then made their getaway with two other accomplices who were waiting on motor scooters.
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Bird Flu Is Back

After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown.

© Casey Steffens for The New York Times

Avian flu often flares up in the fall as wild birds begin migrating south; this year, the uptick is occurring during a government shutdown, as federal agencies that are typically involved in the response are working with skeletal staff.
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As Suspicious Drones Plague Germany, Officials Are Unsure How to Respond

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, “We suspect that Russia is behind most of these drone flights” around vital sites like ports and airports.

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Planes grounded at Munich International Airport in Germany this month, after reports of drone sightings in the area.
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Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances

The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.

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Heather Honey, a prominent election denial activist, was appointed deputy assistant secretary for election integrity at the Department of Homeland Security in August.
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Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?

Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if they reached a limit.

© Rachel Woolf for The New York Times

Signs for Serve Wyoming and a Walmart Distribution Center outside Cheyenne, Wy.
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This Might Be Andrew Cuomo’s Last Debate. What Can New Yorkers Expect?

Even as Mr. Cuomo has ramped up attacks against the front-runner, Zohran Mamdani, and repeated calls for Curtis Sliwa to drop out, he plans to retain last week’s debate strategy.

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo enters Wednesday’s final New York City mayoral debate trailing the front-runner, Zohran Mamdani, by 10 points or more in recent polls.
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