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Why India Playing Pakistan in World Cup Cricket Matters

The cricket-mad South Asian neighbors have a bitter history, punctuated by violence and wars. It makes this one of the fiercest, and most financially lucrative, rivalries in sports.

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The cricket rivalry between India and Pakistan is one of the fiercest in any sport in the world.
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French Prosecutors to Investigate Diplomat as Part of Epstein Probe

The Paris prosecutor’s office said it was looking into three new complaints with links to the files and revisiting an earlier investigation into an Epstein associate who died in 2022.

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The Santé prison in Paris where Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and Epstein associate who died in February 2022, was held.
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Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad

A commercial about a lost dog being reunited with his family ignited concerns that a “Search Party” feature posed privacy risks. Ring parted ways with the tech company Flock Safety.

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A Ring doorbell security camera on the front of a building in New York. The planned integration of those cameras to activate a search function gave rise to criticism after a Super Bowl ad.
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California Billionaires Maneuver Now in Case Wealth Tax Passes

California’s wealthiest residents are maneuvering to reduce their net worth in case a billionaire tax becomes law. Some may even try to drop below $1 billion on paper.

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Lawyers and wealth advisers in California are already drawing up plans to exempt assets from a proposed tax on billionaires, even though it may never become law.
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Democrats in Illinois Senate Primary Debate How to Combat Trump’s ICE

An upcoming Senate primary contest in Illinois, which is likely to pick the state’s next senator, has centered on Democrats’ future approach to federal immigration policy.

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Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton have found themselves at the center of the argument about the best way to combat President Trump’s deportation agenda as they compete for a Senate nomination in Illinois.
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Thousands Rally for Iran Regime Change in Cities Around the World

People protesting the Iranian government gathered near the security conference in Munich, as well as in other cities. More U.S.-Iran talks are expected Tuesday.

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Protesters held up flags of Iran from before the revolution at a Saturday demonstration organized on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
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The Pay-to-Play Patriotism of 2026

As the United States prepares to turn 250, the Trump administration is turning the celebration into a pay-to-play spectacle where even a speaking role on the National Mall is up for sale.
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New U.S. Boat Strike Kills 3 in the Caribbean

The attacks since early November had specifically targeted suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean.

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This image from a video provided by the U.S. military shows what it says was a kinetic strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
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Trump Erased the Endangerment Finding. Here Come the Lawsuits.

The battle is expected to reach the Supreme Court, which is far more conservative today than it was when the measure was established.

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President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would scrap the endangerment finding.
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Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say

The toxin was found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said, challenging Russia’s official account.

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Aleksei A. Navalny in his office in Moscow in 2014. He was President Vladimir V. Putin’s most prominent political opponent when he died in a Russian prison in 2024.
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How Peter Biar Ajak, a Sudanese Peace Activist, Was Caught Plotting a Coup

Peter Biar Ajak, a democracy advocate, was convicted of conspiring to buy and export weapons for a revolt in South Sudan.

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Peter Biar Ajak after returning to the United States in 2020. A federal court in Arizona sentenced him to prison last week after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. weapons export laws.
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Open Road

On Valentine’s Day, consider the ways in which we’re sticking to established paths — and the places where we yearn to deviate.
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