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Frida Kahlo Portrait Sells for $55 Million, Setting Her Auction Record

The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated.

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Bidding for Frida Kahlo, “El sueño (La cama),” or “The dream (The bed),” at Sotheby’s auction house in Manhattan. It sold for $55 million at auction Thursday night, breaking the artist’s record.
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Coast Guard Softens Stance on Hate and Hazing

A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive” and deletes protections for transgender troops.

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A member of the Coast Guard patrolling the waterways near President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Missouri Judge Who Wore Elvis Wig in Court Agrees to Resign

Judge Matthew E.P. Thornhill also talked about politics and played Elvis songs in court, a judicial commission said.

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“Elvis was a super talent,” Matthew E.P. Thornhill, a circuit judge in St. Charles County, Mo., said last year in a local television interview. “If I just had Elvis’s hair, I’d be unstoppable.”
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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Channels Harsh Trump Tone

Pete Hoekstra’s bluntness is seen as undiplomatic by Canadian officials and interpreted as a way for the Trump administration to turn up the heat as trade talks drag on.

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Pete Hoekstra, the American ambassador to Canada, speaking in Banff, Alberta, in September.
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U.S. Manufacturers to Benefit as GE Appliances Shifts Production

The company, now owned by a Chinese conglomerate, is investing $150 million in 19 American suppliers across 10 states.

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Assembly at a GE Appliances plant in Louisville, Ky., in August. The company on Thursday announced contracts with suppliers in 10 states, as part of an effort to bring production back to U.S. soil.
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Mamdani Urges D.S.A. Not to Endorse a Challenger to Jeffries

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani argued that an endorsement of a left-leaning ally, Chi Ossé, would hurt his efforts to secure mainstream Democratic support for his proposals.

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Zohran Mamdani, right, has tried to privately persuade Chi Ossé, left, not to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries. On Wednesday, he went public with his efforts.
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Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, addressed for the first time a schoolyard insult that President Trump lobbed at a Bloomberg News reporter last week.

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Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, was asked to explain what the president had meant when he called a reporter “piggy.”
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Short on Cash, D.N.C. Took Out $15 Million Loan in October

The move, unusual for a year without a midterm or presidential election, is the latest sign of financial distress for the Democratic Party.

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Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at a rally this month in Newark for Representative Mikie Sherrill, who was elected New Jersey’s next governor.
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