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Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings

A new analysis of prescription data found that emergency room orders for acetaminophen for pregnant women fell for weeks after the federal warning.

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President Trump made an announcement about autism and Tylenol alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington last September.
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The Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic That It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.

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Although Anthropic is the only company that provides the Pentagon with artificial intelligence technologies for use on classified systems, other companies are angling to replace it.
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Lev Parnas Running for Congress as a Democrat in Florida

Mr. Parnas, who once tried to help find damaging information on Hunter Biden, said his background had turned him into “an advocate for speaking truth to power.”

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Lev Parnas announced his campaign in a video and post on Substack on Wednesday.
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House Turns Back Bid to Restrict Trump’s War Powers in Iran

A handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat an effort to force President Trump to go to Congress for approval to continue using force against Iran, while two G.O.P. lawmakers backed it.

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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky was one of two Republicans to back the effort.
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Pokémon Company Objects to White House’s Political Memes

“No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games.

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The White House used an image from the new game Pokémon Pokopia in a social media post saying “Make America Great Again.”
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António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83

In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.

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António Lobo Antunes in 1988. The literary critic George Steiner called him “a novelist of the very first rank” and likened him to Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner.
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FEMA Delays Under Kristi Noem Angered Republicans

Long delays in FEMA assistance brought bipartisan complaints, especially in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene in 2024.

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Republican lawmakers from North Carolina had expressed frustration over how slowly FEMA was releasing disaster aid after Hurricane Helene devastated the state in 2024.
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Mamdani to Close Huge Homeless Shelter Next to Bellevue Hospital

The 30th Street Shelter on the site of Bellevue’s former psychiatric hospital has been in disrepair for years.

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The 30th Street Shelter and Intake Center in Manhattan is well known among those seeking emergency housing, but safety issues and physical deterioration have been problems.
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Feeling the Effects of 260,000 Federal Jobs Lost

One year in, assessing budget cuts to federal climate and science jobs.

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Demonstrators gathered to protest against budget cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, last year.
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Racist, Antisemitic Slurs Surface in Florida GOP Group Chat

After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

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The WhatsApp chat was created last fall for students at Florida International University in Miami.
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Senate Democrats Block D.H.S. Funding Again Over Enforcement Guardrails

For the third time, a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed as Democrats refused to support the money without new restrictions on federal immigration agents.

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Democrats’ list of demands includes requiring immigration officers to show visible identification, blocking them from wearing masks and adopting stricter use-of-force policies.
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House Republicans Tell Gonzales to Quit Re-Election Campaign

The call came a day after the Texas congressman admitted to an extramarital affair with an aide, and as he faced a runoff to keep his seat.

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Representative Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas, publicly acknowledged on Wednesday a sexual relationship with a staff member who later took her own life.
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North Carolina Voters Punish Incumbents in Primary Election

Voters across this politically purple state made it clear on Tuesday that they wanted to punish the powerful on both sides of the aisle. It may be a warning to incumbents elsewhere.

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Phil Berger, the leader of the State Senate, has steered the state in a more conservative direction since 2011. He and his allies spent a staggering $10 million in his primary race.
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Sri Lanka Is Caught in the Middle as Second Iranian Vessel Seeks Safe Haven

A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being tested.

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A police vehicle arriving at a hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Thursday, where Iranian sailors rescued from the IRIS Dena were being treated.
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States Sue to Stop Trump From Reviving Steep Tariffs

The lawsuit filed by two dozen attorneys general seeks to invalidate the president’s new, 10 percent global tax on imports.

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The legal challenge is only the latest twist in a saga that has engulfed President Trump’s economic agenda, which hinges on the use of tariffs.
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