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Trump’s Shields Are Down

Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

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Pentagon Fires Another Laser at Drone, Prompting New Air Closure

After the downing of a Customs and Border Protection drone, the F.A.A. closed the airspace above Fort Hancock, Texas.

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A police officer walked with a police dog at El Paso International Airport, after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifted its temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso earlier this month.
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Green Party Defeats Labour in U.K. Special Election, in Blow to Starmer

The result marks the first time the Greens have won a British parliamentary by-election and signals the frustration of left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

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Hannah Spencer, who won a historic victory for the Green Party on Thursday, outside a polling station in the Gorton and Denton district outside Manchester.
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Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

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Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Google DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence division, at a company event in 2018.
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Mamdani’s Gift for Trump: A Front Page Celebrating the President

What do you bring the president when you visit the White House? Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a choice that seemed to please Donald Trump.

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The famous New York Daily News front page from Oct. 30, 1975, after President Gerald Ford refused to bail out New York City, which was facing bankruptcy.
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Regime Change in Cuba Appeals to Trump but Carries Risks

The Trump administration is signaling a different approach, after demanding an end to Cuba’s communist leadership.

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“Cuba does not kneel,” the country’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, center, told a state-run newspaper this month.
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Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Repeatedly Disobeying Orders

The federal judge identified 210 orders issued in 143 cases in Minnesota in which he said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had not complied with court orders.

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Judge Patrick Schiltz was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush.
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Supreme Court Lawyer Who Moonlighted in High-Stakes Poker Is Convicted of Tax Fraud

The lawyer Thomas C. Goldstein, who co-founded the SCOTUSblog website, hid millions in gambling income from the government, federal prosecutors said.

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Thomas Goldstein represented Epic Games, makers of the popular Fortnite video game, in an antitrust case brought against Apple in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, in 2022.
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Trump Ally Expands Inquiry of Former Officials Who Investigated the President

The office of a prosecutor based in Miami has issued new subpoenas in a wide-ranging inquiry aimed at President Trump’s perceived foes.

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Some of President Trump’s allies have hoped that Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the District of Southern Florida, would develop a “grand conspiracy” inquiry.
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After F.B.I. Raid, Los Angeles School Board Discusses Superintendent’s Future

Board members held an emergency meeting a day after agents raided the home and office of Alberto Carvalho, the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent. They did not reach a resolution and agreed to reconvene Friday.

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Los Angeles Unified school board members met Thursday afternoon in an emergency closed session a day after the F.B.I. raid of Alberto Carvalho’s home.
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Anthropic Says It Cannot ‘Accede’ to Pentagon in Talks Over A.I.

Anthropic said it was standing firm on not having its A.I. used in certain scenarios by the Pentagon, which has imposed a Friday deadline on the company to give unfettered access to its technology.

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“We cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, said in a statement.
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Testimony Offers New Details on Justice Dept. Role in Abrego Garcia Prosecution

A top prosecutor, Robert E. McGuire, painted an extraordinary picture of senior Justice Department leaders peering over his shoulder and hurrying him along.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, arriving at federal court in Nashville on Thursday.
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N.Y. Man With China Ties Charged With Marijuana Trafficking in Oklahoma

Sin Tung Chan was a member of a prominent hometown association in the city, one of hundreds of social clubs that often maintain close ties with the Chinese government.

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Purple Ray L.L.C., one of two large marijuana farms owned by Sin Tung Chan in rural Oklahoma, was raided on Wednesday.
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