As Germany’s new chancellor increases military spending, he has presided over the activation of a German tank brigade based in Lithuania and raised alarms about the threat from Russia.As he takes office, Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces a delicate test: dealing with a Russia willing to flex its muscle...
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Climbing Mount Everest typically takes weeks, with most of that time spent at the foot of the mountain adjusting to the thin air. But four British men last week shrank that timeline dramatically, traveling from London to the summit and back in less than a week, according to the organizer...
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Snaking power lines are part of Moscow’s goal to harness the power of the Zaporizhzhia facility, according to Greenpeace.Russia is building power lines in occupied southeastern Ukraine to link to its own grid a major nuclear plant it has captured, according to a new Greenpeace report. It is the clearest...
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Listen to and follow “The Headlines”Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadioOn Today’s Episode:Fiscal Hawks in Senate Balk at House’s Bill to Deliver Trump’s Agenda, by Catie Edmondson and Minho KimRepublican Crackdown on Aid to Immigrants Would Hit U.S. Citizens, by Madeleine Ngo and Lydia DePillisRussia...
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Years before Joël Le Scouarnec was charged with abusing 299 former patients, he was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery.Dr. François Simon was one of the many people who knew that Joël Le Scouarnec had been convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery in 2005 and was continuing to...
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A small Vermont business that sells water bottles used by cyclists and others is struggling to adapt to President Trump’s tariffs even after they were temporarily lowered.When President Trump temporarily reduced tariffs this month on imports from China from the astronomical level that he had set in March, the stock...
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There will be 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, 50 helicopters, 34 horses, two mules and a dog, according to the Army’s plans for the June 14 event.In President Trump’s first term, the Pentagon opposed his desire for a military parade in Washington, wanting to keep the armed forces out of...
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Laurène BoglioMore than two decades ago we blew the whistle at Enron and WorldCom, industry giants whose spectacular falls revealed two of the largest accounting fraud scandals in American history. We know the destruction that fraud causes. We lived through it. We witnessed how unchecked power, collusion at the highest...
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Yessica Rojas, a Venezuelan mother, risked everything to seek a better future for her two children in the United States. This spring, they left Missouri because she feared losing them.For Yessica Rojas, the choice was clear. After less than two years in Missouri, she and her two children had to...
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The five-story, two-family modern townhouse made of all-white stucco fully unveiled itself earlier this year in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.Erected on a corner lot in a neighborhood dominated by brownstones and prewar buildings, it’s impossible to miss — made even more striking by entry doors painted traffic cone...
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The Trump administration’s efforts and the G.O.P.’s tax bill aim to restrict benefits for families that include immigrants without permanent legal status.President Trump has vowed to end what he calls the “waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources” by cutting off federal benefits for undocumented immigrants and ensuring that funding goes to...
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President Trump and members of Congress want to revive U.S. shipbuilding with subsidies and penalties against Chinese-built ships. But there are obstacles.President Trump and some members of Congress want to revive a depleted American shipbuilding industry to compete with China, the world’s biggest maker of ships by far.It is such...
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