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Trump Officials’ Use of ‘Domestic Terrorist’ in Minnesota Shootings Doesn’t Match Legal Reality

The Trump administration has used the term as a cudgel against political adversaries, especially this month to defend immigration officers who had killed two protesters in Minneapolis.

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Vice President JD Vance characterized the actions of Renee Good, one of the two demonstrators killed this month, as “classic terrorism.”
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Iraq’s Nominee for Prime Minister Rejects Trump Threats

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, was nominated to lead Iraq once again, but President Trump said he would cut U.S. support if that went ahead.

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Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, during an election in Baghdad, last year.
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With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.

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DNA electrophoresis in a lab. Scientists at Google DeepMind have trained their A.I on a vast wealth of molecular data, enabling it to make predictions about thousands of genes.
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Did a Luxury Nursing Home Hold a 91-Year-Old Woman Captive?

Her memory was failing, and the $28,000-a-month assisted living facility wouldn’t let her leave. Was it protecting her from an untrustworthy guardian?

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Diana Multare with her friend Eric Houston and a health aide during a trip to his sister’s horse farm in Connecticut.
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After Russian Strike Kills Five, Train Sheds Burned Cars and Carries On

One Ukrainian passenger, who escaped injury after stepping out of a carriage for a cigarette, recalled carrying a bloodied woman away from the burning train.

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A photograph released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service was said to show the train that was attacked by drones in the Kharkiv region on Tuesday.
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Five Questions for Jerome Powell, the Fed Chair

Succession drama, legal intrigue and political independence: These are top issues that DealBook would ask of the Federal Reserve chairman.

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Jay Powell, the Fed chair, is expected to face tough questions at today’s news conference.
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Welcome to Spain

Today we look into a country that’s handling the issue of undocumented migrants in a starkly different way.

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Harvesting nectarines in Spain.
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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs

The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

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Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle.
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Iran Killed Thousands of Protesters. Here Are Five of Their Stories.

“He went out for freedom,” said the cousin of one of those who was killed when Iranian authorities mounted a deadly crackdown on protests across the country.

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Bijan Mostafavi and Zahra Bani-Amerian with their sons Danial and Davoud. Bijan, Zahra and Danial, pictured left in this photograph, were killed in the protests that have rocked Iran over the past month.
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Fed Meeting Comes at Pivotal Moment for Central Bank’s Independence

The Trump administration has unleashed a barrage of attacks on the Federal Reserve, including a criminal investigation into its chair, Jerome H. Powell.

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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, has spend much of the past month under siege from President Trump.
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What to Watch as the Federal Reserve Meets

The central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday after a series of reductions in the latter half of 2025. The big question is how long the pause will last.
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Sundance Film Festival Says Goodbye to Park City, Utah

“It’s hard not to feel a disturbance in the force,” said Ethan Hawke, whose acting career took off after his early movies appeared at the Utah festival in the 1990s.

“What I will miss most is my youth,” the actor Ethan Hawke said about the Sundance Film Festival’s leaving Park City. “The streets are full of memories.”
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After Naval Drills With Iran, South Africa Faces New U.S. Attacks

The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.

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An Iranian vessel leaving Simon’s Town Naval Base in South Africa on Jan. 13 during preparations for joint drills with members of the BRICS group of emerging economies, including China, Russia and Iran.
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