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Trump-Appointed Judge Bars Release of Jack Smith’s Report in Documents Case

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, slammed the former special counsel, Jack Smith, for drafting the report even after she had dismissed the case.

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The ruling by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was her latest effort in the past several months to keep the public from seeing Jack Smith’s sprawling report.
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Border Patrol Shoots Armed Person Near Canadian Border, Authorities Say

The F.B.I. said that the person, who was not killed, “allegedly fired at” a Border Patrol agent in Pittsburg, N.H., around 1 a.m. on Sunday.

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Outside the town of Pittsburg, N.H, in 2024. Federal authorities said that a Border Patrol agent shot an armed individual near the Canadian border in Pittsburg early on Sunday.
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The Evolution of Eyes Began With One

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

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Scientists believe invertebrates 560 million years ago had a single eye at the top of their head, which only later split in two.
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Prince William and Kate Made a Pointed Appearance at BAFTA

After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, the Prince and Princess of Wales made a pointed BAFTA appearance.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales arriving at the BAFTAS with Jane Millichip, the chief executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Ken Olisa, the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London, on Sunday.
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Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.

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Internal investigators found last year that people in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance platform over the previous year.
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The European Union Hits Pause on Its U.S. Trade Deal

The E.U. isn’t throwing out the deal it agreed with the United States before President Trump’s tariffs were overruled, but European officials want more clarity first.

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A European lawmaker warned that U.S. tariffs on cheeses like Parmesan and Camembert could nearly double, to about 30 percent.
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Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs

President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda.

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President Trump has said that tariffs will help America’s manufacturing sector and create factory jobs, though many economists have questioned those claims.
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‘Survivor’ Is America

It’s our greatest game and our truest mirror. And in its tiki-torch-festooned way, it’s captured our society as an ever-changing collection of tribes.

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Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Ruben Ray Martinez Shooting Dies in Car Accident

A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

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Rachel Reyes, the mother of Ruben Ray Martinez, holding a photo of her son. Mr. Martinez was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer last year.
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France Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Comments on Activist’s Killing

Charles Kushner, President Trump’s envoy to Paris, was called in after the State Department cited “violent radical leftism” in the beating death of Quentin Deranque, 23.

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Charles Kushner, the U.S. ambassador to France, and his wife, Seryl Kushner, leaving the Élysée Palace in Paris in July.
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Cities May Be ‘Evolutionary Training Grounds’ For Spotted Lanternflies

Living in urban China may have given the insects the traits they needed to thrive in the United States, a new study suggests.

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Spotted lanternflies, native to Shanghai, have spread rapidly throughout the Eastern United States since they were first discovered there in 2014, invading about 20 states and counting.
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Architecture Prize Responds After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface

A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation.

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Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation that awards the Pritzker Prize, has said he “exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with” Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell.
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