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‘We Got to Win the Midterms’: Trump Takes His State of the Union Message on the Road

During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.

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President Trump greeted diners at a fast-food restaurant in Corpus Christi on Friday. In the days after a State of the Union address, presidents typically travel the nation promoting their agenda.
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Columbia Student Detained by ICE Promotes ‘Beauty’ and ‘Brains’ Online

Elmina Aghayeva has 114,000 followers on Instagram and has seemingly never posted about politics, unlike other Columbia University students detained by immigration officers.

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Federal immigration officials detained Columbia University student Elmina Aghayeva at a university-owned building on Thursday.
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In a Memoir Draft, Changpeng Zhao of Binance Details the Talks Leading to His Prison Time

In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.

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Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, outside federal court in Seattle in 2024 at his sentencing for violating an anti-money-laundering law.
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Instagram to Alert Parents to Teens’ Self-Harm Searches

Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them.

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Meta, which owns Instagram, is promoting the parental alerts about searches for harmful content as it is on trial in two states over claims that its platforms are addictive and have harmed young users.
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Neil Sedaka: 14 Essential Songs

The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.

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Neil Sedaka at home in California last summer, when he was playing a residency at a lounge called Vitello’s.
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Why Did Trump Go to War With Anthropic?

The military needs the very best A.I. to streamline its operations. It should find ways to work with these companies, not erect barriers.

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How Israel Lost Americans

Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.

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What Are ICE Agents Allowed to Do on College Campuses?

Federal agents do not have any special privileges on campuses. To arrest a student at Columbia University this week, they used a tactic of questionable legality.

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Barricades in front of the main entrance of Columbia University where protesters gathered on Thursday.
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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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