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George Banks, Convicted Mass Murderer, Dies at 83

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Par :Alexandra E. Petri
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He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children.

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George Banks in 1985.
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Prosecutors Urge Judge to Rebuff Comey’s Bid to Dismiss Case

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Par :Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage
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The filing appeared to be an effort to construct a narrative that James B. Comey had leaked information to the news media without actually tying such assertions to the claims made in the indictment against him.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, has argued that the charges he is facing should be thrown out as an act of vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration.
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G.O.P. Figures Seek Distance From Tucker Carlson, Denouncing Antisemitism

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Par :Annie Karni
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Prominent Republicans rejected the views of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, though some refrained from directly criticizing Tucker Carlson for interviewing him.

© Kent Nishimura for The New York Times

“I choose to stand with Israel, and I choose to stand with America,” said Senator Ted Cruz, whose grievances with Mr. Carlson are not new.
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Trump Endorses Cuomo for NYC Mayor and Attacks Mamdani Before Election

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Par :Dana Rubinstein and Michael Gold
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The president wrote that if Zohran Mamdani were to win, it would be “highly unlikely” that the city would receive federal funding beyond a bare minimum.

© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

President Trump urged New Yorkers to vote for Andrew Cuomo on Monday, saying “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice.”
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California Man Shot by ICE Was Not Trying to Run Over Agent, Lawyers Say

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Par :Soumya Karlamangla
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A Southern California man charged with assault of a federal officer was asking agents to leave an area where school children wait for the bus, according to his lawyers.

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A U.S. citizen was shot and wounded in his car by a federal agent during an immigration enforcement operation last week in Ontario, Calif.
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Trump’s Tariffs and Push Against Limits Face Election and Court Tests

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Par :Erica L. Green
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President Trump has a lot riding on the results of Tuesday’s elections, his tariffs case at the Supreme Court and the future of the government shutdown.

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The president is facing a pressure test of the unilateral governance style that has marked his second term.
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ICE Altercation With Protester in Colorado Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back

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Par :Jack Healy
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At the Durango, Colo., police chief’s request, Colorado law enforcement will investigate whether a federal agent broke the law when he appeared to put a protester in a chokehold.

© Nina Riggio for The New York Times

When Durango’s police chief, Brice Current, saw a video of a protester put in a chokehold, he said, “It appeared to be an out of policy and possibly illegal use of force.”
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What the Virginia Governor Election Might Portend for Trump

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Par :Jess Bidgood
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The governor’s race in the president’s backyard could tell us if a backlash has arrived.

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Winsome Earle-Sears, left, and Abigail Spanberger are facing off on Tuesday in the Virginia governor’s race.
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The Battle Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller Near His Virginia Home

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Par :Devlin Barrett
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Criminal inquiries pit the Miller family’s safety concerns against the First Amendment rights of an activist in Northern Virginia critical of the administration.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Stephen Miller, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, is a driving force behind the Trump administration’s decision-making on immigration and law enforcement.
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‘The Boat,’ Despised Floating Jail Near Rikers, Heads for the Scrap Heap

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Par :Corey Kilgannon
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The jail barge, officially called the Vernon C. Bain Center, was a relic of the crack cocaine era. It was notorious even among Rikers Island’s many troubled lockups.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

On Monday, former detainees and their loved ones turned out to watch the decommissioned Vernon C. Bain Center jail barge as it was towed from the shoreline of the East River in the South Bronx.
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Do You Rely on Food Stamps? Tell Us About How You’re Preparing for the Possible Loss of Assistance.

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Par :The New York Times
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As food assistance funding runs out, Times reporters want to hear from people who rely on it, or who work to help feed people in their community.

© Rory Doyle for The New York Times

The threat of food assistance disappearing for 42 million Americans, even for a month, has exposed how threadbare the nation’s social safety net has become at a time of persistent inflation and deep federal funding cuts.
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How New York’s Mayoral Race Became a Vote on the Middle East

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Par :Katherine Rosman
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Many New Yorkers have been agonizing over the war between Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. Now they are casting their ballots.

© Vincent Alban/The New York Times

Samuel Levitan (left) and Ujji Bathla tell voters about Zohran Mamdani’s campaign platform to make New York City more affordable. But they were initially drawn by his pro-Palestinian politics.
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With Acquisition, Kimberly-Clark Bets That Tylenol Can Weather the Storm

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Par :Rebecca Robbins and Lauren Hirsch
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The consumer products giant reached a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, despite a barrage of unproven claims from President Trump and others that use of the pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism.

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Kimberly-Clark is gambling that it can outlast the Trump administration’s Tylenol-autism warnings. Kenvue has a broader portfolio of brand-name products like Band-Aid and Neutrogena.
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Diane Ladd, Oscar-Nominated Actress and Mother of Laura Dern, Dies at 89

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Par :Anita Gates
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She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in one case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.

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Diane Ladd in the mid-1960s. In movies like “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Wild at Heart,” her characters ranged from sympathetic to ruthless.
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