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Thailand Says Trump Call About Cambodia Conflict Is Set for Friday

President Trump’s planned intervention comes as the hostilities entered their fifth day and appeared to escalate, and while Thailand moves toward early elections.

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Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul is likely to stake out a hard-line position on the conflict, analysts said. On Friday he spoke at Government House in Bangkok about dissolving Parliament.
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King Charles to Speak About His Cancer in Televised Message, BBC Reports

A video of the king discussing his “recovery journey” will air on Channel 4 on Friday, British media reported. He was diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer last year.

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Buckingham Palace announced last year that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer. It has not said what type of cancer he is being treated for.
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Life and Death in India’s Air Apocalypse

For hundreds of millions of Indians, toxic winter air poisons bodies, constricts lives and wears down spirits.

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Hazy skies laden with harmful particulates settle in every winter over vast areas of India such as this congested road in New Delhi.
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Senate Deadlocks Over Obamacare Subsidies in Dueling Votes

Republicans blocked Democrats’ effort to extend the expiring subsidies while Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. proposal to replace them with direct payments for basic health coverage.

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Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, at the Capitol this week.
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China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips

For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

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President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in October. Mr. Trump’s latest moves extended the conciliatory posture he struck at this summit.
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Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Social Media Ban

The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights.

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School children waiting for a bus in Sydney, last month. The ban took effect on Wednesday.
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Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely.

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The headquarters of the Public Broadcasting Service in Arlington, Va.
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Stuck in Quicksand, a Hiker in Utah Has His SOS Answered

Austin Dirks used a Garmin satellite device to reach emergency responders, who rescued him in a remote canyon in Arches National Park.

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Visitors at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, in 2024.
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Key Takeaways After Indiana Lawmakers Defy Trump’s Redistricting Push

President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.

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Republican members of the Indiana Senate voted on Thursday to reject an effort led by President Trump to pass a congressional map that would have given the party two extra House seats.
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Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order

The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

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President Trump, who has said it’s important for America to dominate in the race to develop A.I., has said that the various state A.I. laws have created a confusing patchwork of regulations.
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Republicans Undercut Johnson, Circumventing Him to Force Votes

The speaker has repeatedly lost his grip on the House floor thanks to a once rare parliamentary maneuver that G.O.P. members are increasingly using to force action on legislation.

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s hold on his razor-thin majority has become increasingly slippery, as rank-and-file Republicans flout his wishes.
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America Is Entering Its Third Civil War

Trump is not interested in refighting the Cold War. He is, in my view, interested in fighting the civilizational war over what is the American “home.”

© Alex Kent for The New York Times

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