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A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

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Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
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U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, State Media Says

Injuries were reported in an attack that the Syrian government’s news agency said happened near the ancient city of Palmyra.

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American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.
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Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks

Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.

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Firefighters on Saturday at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine.
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Baby Steps

The antidote to our increasingly disembodied lives may lie in letting go of our inhibitions and dancing like kids do.
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A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

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Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
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Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of Tina Peters Rejected by Colorado Officials

The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

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Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court in Grand Junction, Colo., last year.
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Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has only just begun to raise money for a presidential library, starting with an event for potential donors on Monday in Washington.
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Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out

Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.

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Mayor Eric Adams said that his ability to lead New York City was compromised well before his federal indictment.
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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

This week 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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