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Takeaways From the Pentagon Investigation on Hegseth’s Use of Signal

The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon’s instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington this week. He declined to be interviewed by the inspector general’s office.
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Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

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Meta’s virtual reality headset last year. The company’s augmented reality glasses have become a surprise hit.
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As Health Care Subsidies Teeter, Congress Is Again at an Impasse

Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?

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With most Republicans opposed to the expiring Obamacare tax credits, the 60 votes needed to approve any extension do not exist in the Senate.
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In Her 90s, a Painter Finally Confronts Her Nazi Trauma

Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral.

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Cornelia Foss in the art studio of her Manhattan apartment.
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Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101

As a 19-year-old medic, he won a Silver Star for his service during D-Day. Later, in the Korean War, he earned a Bronze Star.

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Charles Norman Shay at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in 2019. “I saw there were many wounded men who were floundering in the water,” he said, recalling D-Day. “And I knew that if nobody went to help them, they were doomed to die.”
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After Years of Debate, Vatican Says No to Women Deacons, at Least for Now

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church.

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Pope Leo XIV in Beirut in November. Some campaigners had hoped that the Vatican, under Leo’s leadership, might allow for the inclusion of women in the lowest rungs of the church ministerial hierarchy.
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Bipartisan House Group Proposes Long-Shot Health Care Plan

Republicans and Democrats released a two-year plan to scale back and extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, but it faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.

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Representative Jen Kiggans is the leading Republican on the proposal to extend A.C.A. subsidies.
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Suspect Arrested in Inquiry Into Pipe Bombs in D.C. Ahead of Jan. 6 Riot

The suspect was described as a 30-year-old man from Prince William County, Va. His arrest could ultimately provide an answer to one of the mysteries arising from the Jan. 6. attack.

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A photograph released by the F.B.I. shows the person suspected of placing two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill the night before Jan. 6, 2021.
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A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster

Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done.

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Colin Roberts, left, and Vivek Nair, the founders of Multifactor, an A.I. start-up, fielded interest from more than 250 investors and raised more money than planned.
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Her Roof Was About to Be Fixed. Then Immigration Agents Showed Up.

The Trump administration’s deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans.

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The agents, including several from the Border Patrol, had shown up and tried to detain the men, but they refused to get down from the roof.
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Spain Sees Itself as a Beacon for Immigrants. So Do Many Latin Americans.

The government presents its migrant policy as a welcoming alternative to U.S. crackdowns. But activists say those arriving on boats from Africa are excluded from that embrace.

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Luz Fanny Arce Campiño in the restaurant she works in, in Paiporta, Spain, in October.
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Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact

Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

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Though President Trump negotiated and signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he said this year that he wanted to make it a “much better deal.”
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