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The Doctor Who Hates Medicine

The anti-expert expert is up for the nation’s top doctor job.

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Casey Means, second from left, was in the audience as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified at his confirmation hearing in January.
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Inside the Louvre Jewel Heist That Shocked the World

More than a week after thieves made off with treasures from the Louvre, a picture is emerging of a seemingly well-planned burglary that exploited security lapses at the museum and outpaced the police.

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Investigators on the day of the burglary, examining the balcony where the thieves broke in.
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Trump Threatens to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing, Minutes Before Xi Meeting

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries.

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A test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., in September.
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California Animal Rights Activist Convicted in Chicken Theft

Zoe Rosenberg, a California animal rights activist, was found guilty of conspiracy and trespassing for taking four chickens from a poultry plant.

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Zoe Rosenberg, an animal rights activist, was found guilty of breaking into a meat processing plant and stealing four chickens she said had been mistreated.
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Microsoft Increases Investments Amid A.I. Race

The company reported higher-than-expected capital expenditures of $34.9 billion in its latest quarter.

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Microsoft has said the demand for its cloud computing services outpaces its available data centers.
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Meta Raises Its Spending Forecast on A.I. to Above $70 Billion

The Silicon Valley company projected more spending this year and said it would continue in 2026 as it hires A.I. researchers and builds data centers to power the technology.

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Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, at an event in September showcasing new products. Meta’s core business of online advertising has provided the fuel for its spending on artificial intelligence.
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Four Decades After It Was Stolen, a Renaissance Treasure Returns to Rome

The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and many more pages have yet to be found.

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The 15th-century manuscript page attributed to Fra Antonio da Monza, depicting a “Virgin and Child,” is displayed on Wednesday in the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli after being recovered by police in Rome.
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Police Raid in Rio de Janeiro Leaves Over 130 Dead

The death toll in Rio’s deadliest police operation in history rose to 132 people, the state authorities say, sparking outrage and a reckoning.

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The bodies of people killed during the raid.
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Bloomberg Gives $1.5 Million to Pro-Cuomo Super PAC

Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, had stayed out of the race since backing former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s failed Democratic primary campaign.

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Michael R. Bloomberg spent more than $8 million backing Mr. Cuomo during the Democratic mayoral primary, which Zohran Mamdani won by nearly 13 points.
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Prosecutors Who Called Jan. 6 Attackers a ‘Mob of Rioters’ Are Punished

The prosecutors were put on leave after filing a sentencing memo in the case of a man who showed up armed near the home of former President Barack Obama.

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The prosecutors had requested a sentence of 27 months in prison for a man who was found guilty of weapons offenses in a 2023 case.
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Ex-Illinois Deputy Convicted in Fatal Shooting of Sonya Massey

Sean Grayson was charged with murder in the 2024 death of Sonya Massey, who was holding a pot of hot water when she was shot at her home near Springfield, Ill.

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Body camera video released by Illinois State Police shows Sonya Massey, left, talking with former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson outside her home near Springfield, Ill., on the night she was killed.
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