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C.I.A. Intelligence Helped Lead Mexican Authorities to ‘El Mencho’

Mexican officials said they had found the elusive cartel kingpin by tracking a romantic partner. The C.I.A. provided some intelligence critical to the operation.

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Mexican special forces in Mexico City on Sunday. C.I.A. intelligence helped lead the special forces to the cartel leader.
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Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.

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DeepSeek is among the three Chinese start-ups accused of using data from Anthropic’s A.I. system to train their own, a process called distillation.
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After Saks Bankruptcy, Richard Baker Says He Saved Luxury Department Stores

Richard Baker wanted to create a retail empire when he combined Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. About a year later, it filed for bankruptcy.

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Richard Baker at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City in 2023. The chain’s parent company entered bankruptcy last month.
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What Travelers Need to Know as Cartel Violence Rattles Mexico

The killing of a drug lord and the unrest that followed have prompted flight cancellations, roadblocks, cruise disruptions and “shelter in place” alerts.

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Mayhem after the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who led a powerful criminal group, disrupted flights at Guadalajara International Airport on Sunday.
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Settlers in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank Drive a Palestinian Family Off Its Land

For two years, settlers attacked Rezeq Abu Naim’s land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank at all hours and in all manners. After another violent incursion over the weekend, his family abandoned their home.

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Rezeq Abu Naim, left, with some members of his family inside a cave the family used, in July, near the West Bank village of Al Mughayir.
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‘Angel Families’ Return to Washington to Back Up Trump Ahead of State of the Union

The families of people killed by undocumented immigrants have forged a bond with the president, who has invited some of them to his address on Tuesday.

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President Trump gathered several families at the White House on Monday to sign a proclamation honoring people who had been killed by undocumented immigrants on Monday.
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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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Binance, the world’s largest venue for crypto trading, has continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on its platform, even after it pleaded guilty to breaking anti-money-laundering laws in 2023.
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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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