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In First Public Comments Since Trump’s Racist Video, Obama Laments Lost Decorum

In a podcast interview, former President Barack Obama did not directly address the video posted by Mr. Trump but denounced a “clown show” on social media.

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Former President Barack Obama said he thought most Americans were troubled by inflammatory and racist rhetoric in politics.
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Everybody’s Mom

We explore why we care so much about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

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News media and law enforcement personnel outside Nancy Guthrie’s home.
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Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality

President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

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“Don Colossus” — a 15-foot bronze statue of President Trump — at the sculptor’s studio in Zanesville, Ohio, earlier this month.
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More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.

In Minneapolis, videos of the Alex Pretti killing undermined the federal government’s account. But an A.I. video of Brad Pitt shows the dangers ahead.

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A screen grab from a video showing how federal agents wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground before fatally shooting him.
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Republican State Legislators Rush to Limit Their Own Regulators

South Carolina’s state legislature is one of 17, mainly in heavily Republican states, that is moving to handcuff state agencies at a moment of tectonic changes in energy, technology and finance.

Some business owners like Gail Nicholls, owner of Red Bug Barn, a pet supply store in Richburg, S.C., support deregulation. Ms. Nicholls spends hours each week applying for permits.
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Texas Students Protest ICE Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s Threats

In dozens of states, students have staged walkouts over immigration enforcement. In Texas, they’re doing so despite threats from Gov. Greg Abbott.

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High school students in Hutto, Texas, walking out of class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Shivering Americans Snap Up Firewood as Winter Grinds On

Weeks of freezing temperatures and winter storms across parts of the United States have increased the demand for firewood and manufactured fire logs.

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Jason Loflin prepares firewood in Thomasville, N.C., on Friday. Bitter cold weather and a series of winter storms have intensified demand for logs for firewood.
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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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