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Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

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Neil Sedaka performing onstage in London in 1977. He intersected in his career with a remarkably diverse array of musicians.
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Iris Cantor, Philanthropist and Art Collector, Dies at 95

She and her husband, the financier B. Gerald Cantor, amassed one of the largest private collections of Rodin artworks, donating much of it to museums around the world.

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Iris Cantor in 2001. A former model and stockbroker, she joined the bond brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald in 1967 and later married the founder, B. Gerald Cantor.
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30 More Indicted in Cities Church Protest Against ICE in St. Paul

The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.

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Demonstrators were arrested after disrupting a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., in January.
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Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.

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The lawyer Ben Crump, second from left, walking with Henrietta Lacks’s grandsons Ron Lacks, left, and Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, and other descendants in Baltimore in 2021.
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Victims’ Families Stunned by Failure of Air Safety Bill in House

Relatives of those who died in a midair collision over D.C. last year came to Washington to watch a vote they thought would go their way. It didn’t.

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Tim Lilley’s son was one of the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342, which was struck by an Army Black Hawk helicopter above Ronald Reagan National Airport last year.
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Trump Says He’s ‘Not Happy’ With Progress of Iran Talks

The president expressed his negative view of the status of nuclear talks as he weighed military strikes against Iran.

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President Trump addressing reporters before leaving the White House for a trip to Texas on Friday.
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In Tuesday’s North Carolina Primaries, the Left Is Aiming for Democrats

From a Durham-area House race to three statehouse races, North Carolina liberals are signaling that their tolerance for Democratic stalwarts may be coming to an end.

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Chandler Roberts, 4, watched his grandfather, Nathan Roberts, fill out his ballot at an early voting site in Charlotte, N.C., amid a flurry of Democratic primary challenges.
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Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War

The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.

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The Pentagon has said that a private contractor cannot decide how its tools will be lawfully used for national security.
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Justice Thomas Bemoans Incivility as Security Prompts Cancellation of In-Person Speech

The justice participated remotely in a closed-door session of a legal conference, a reminder of the heightened threats facing jurists in recent years.

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Justice Clarence Thomas speaking in Washington in September. His planned in-person appearance at an event this week changed after a security threat, he said.
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Iran’s Students Are Protesting Again. Here’s Why.

The unrest underlines the intensity of domestic discontent, even as Tehran’s government grapples with the threat of U.S. strikes. Here’s what to know.

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An image taken from social media on Monday shows students gathering for an anti-government rally at the women-only Al Zahra University in Tehran.
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Border Patrol Left a Refugee at a Cafe. Days Later, He Was Found Dead.

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The disabled man had been released from jail when federal officers showed up and drove him to a coffee shop. His family searched for him for days.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents took a man with a visual impairment to a coffee shop in Buffalo and left him.
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NASA Shakes Up Artemis Schedule, Aiming for 2 Moon Landings in 2028

A “back to basics” approach resembles the Apollo program of the 1960s, with more missions launching more often. NASA officials said that it would be safer and faster.

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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule were rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.
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The Rise and Fall of a 3-D Printing Empire

Desktop Metal, a billion-dollar start-up, promised to revolutionize manufacturing. It went bankrupt, and now has much humbler ambitions as the 3-D printing industry takes a sober turn.

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Jonah Myerberg, co-founder and chief technology officer at Desktop Metal, with one of the company’s industrial 3-D metal printers. The Burlington, Mass., firm declared bankruptcy last year.
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