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North Korean Soldiers Return From Russia’s War With Ukraine

Kim Jong-un hugged the returning troops and awarded the country’s highest medal to nine soldiers killed in action.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, hugs a soldier in Pyongyang during a ceremony welcoming troops home from a deployment in Russia’s Kursk region, in a photograph released by state media.
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Dozens Killed as a Hospital Is Bombed in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War

Jets from the Myanmar military dropped two bombs on the facility in Mrauk-U, in what rebels and witnesses called a deliberate attack on civilians.

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Mourners at a cemetery in Mrauk-U, Myanmar, on Thursday, grieving over the bodies of victims of a hospital bombing.
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Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey

Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.

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A judge’s order suggested that sloppiness by the Justice Department had helped to sabotage President Trump’s demands to use the criminal justice system to go after James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
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For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.

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The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.
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In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss

Thursday demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.

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The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage-related charges for the second time in a week.
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In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated

The hearing was the first concrete step toward repealing some of the state’s vaccine requirements. Rolling back others would require legislative action.

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Larry Downs Jr. speaks against childhood vaccine mandates at a public hearing held by Florida’s Department of Health on Friday in Panama City Beach, Fla.
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For Republicans, Trump’s Hands-Off Approach to Health Care Is a Problem

The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.

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President Trump said Thursday night that he may soon start negotiating with Democrats to lower health care costs.
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Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.

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Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the latest evidence of a deepening divide in Republican politics.
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Phil Upchurch, Jazz Guitarist and Sideman to Stars, Dies at 84

A self-taught session man extraordinaire, he played with a constellation of stars, including Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Phil Upchurch in 1983, playing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. Although he was known for his versatility across multiple genres, he considered himself a jazz player — albeit one with his own vision.
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Canadians Rush to Buy Stockpiles of Boycotted U.S. Liquor

Four Canadian provinces are selling off the American liquor they pulled from shelves in protest over President Trump’s tariffs. Some bourbon drinkers are thrilled.

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American alcohol products were removed from store shelves in much of Canada when U.S. tariffs against the country went into effect in March.
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Harvard Replaces Leader of Health Center Said to Have Focused on Palestinians

The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.

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The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s public health school will have new leadership. An interim was named in the meantime.
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Transportation Dept. Threatens to Withhold Funds From N.Y. Over Noncitizen Licenses

The Trump administration gave New York 30 days to pause issuing all non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, among other demands, or risk losing $73 million in highway funds.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said New York’s commercial driver’s license standards represented “a systematically grossly unacceptable deviation from federal safety regulations.”
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