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In Ukraine, Gaza and now Iran, President Trump’s early declarations of easy wins have given way to harsh reality. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/Ckr0ojU

Mr. Booker and other Senate Democrats faced questions Sunday about reports that Mr. Platner’s wife previously told his campaign he had exchanged sexual messages with women outside his marriage. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/1bu7eVh

The former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., is scheduled to be set free on Monday, after her nine-year prison sentence was commuted by Gov. Jared Polis. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/kJPdaXS

The reverberation came two days after a similar event in South Carolina had caused alarm. This time, it could have been a meteorite. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/MJG4ICZ

The agent was charged in Minnesota with assault and filing a false police report in the shooting of an immigrant from Venezuela. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/tmEDR6v

Around 200 people have now been killed in the attacks since last year, in an operation critics say has failed to slow the smuggling of cocaine. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/jReELDZ

John Solomon said he was being vetted for a role as a “special government employee,” a status given to part-time, outside advisers to the federal government. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/TNL2SAm

Ms. Whitmer, the Michigan governor and one of the country’s most prominent Democrats, has been conciliatory with Mr. Trump. As she mulls the future, her party is split on that approach. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/ujFAJ5e

A federal task force in the city has been targeting crime and undocumented immigrants since October. Observers say they have faced retaliation for trying to track the agents’ work. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/rwVTe4I

The president’s family says his stock purchases are automatically timed, but recent acquisitions of the computer company’s shares raise questions. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/04X3kLE

With Ken Paxton defeating John Cornyn in Texas’ Republican runoff for the Senate, The New York Times’s national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why Democrats may now see their best chance in years to flip the seat. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/OdaPhQV

The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/rmW6eop

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An unknown number of injuries were also reported at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company in Longview, Wash., the authorities said. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/9vnUiw5

Burt Jones, the leading G.O.P. candidate for governor, worked with Trump allies to try to overturn the election, and even talked to the president himself. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/3zNvUXd

In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/IxMrH6S

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a critic of President Trump who lost his primary last week, filed papers for another candidacy but said he was not sure which office he might seek. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/FPfYbR9

Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine, blamed private equity for destroying “our favorite baseball team.” NESN, which is owned by the team, pulled his campaign ad, citing an intellectual property violation. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/HpnB50f

Immigrants and their advocates and lawyers are trying to interpret a new Trump administration rule that requires people to be in their native country to apply for a green card. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/iqjSYJa

President Trump is trying to create individual lists of citizens by state to determine who can vote, even as his administration acknowledges they would be unreliable. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/UIHk9jc

For nearly two decades, the prolific puzzle maker, a retired urologist, charmed solvers with his penchant for witty, waggish puns. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/WnVCdL7

A witness reported hearing dozens of shots. It was not immediately clear what had led up to the shooting or whether anyone had been injured. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/fd5XvMR

After a year focused on immigrants here illegally, the Trump administration is now making it harder for legal migrants to stay in the country. It is a risky pivot. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/igaBeXO

Two recent moves aligned the department ever more closely with President Trump’s own efforts to whitewash the events of that day. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/phfomyD

The move deals an embarrassing blow to the Trump administration, which made the Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the face of its deportation campaign. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/hDpKfCx

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is not planning to endorse his health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, or any other candidates in the race. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/Z0wuVsi

A draft report released by the Democratic National Committee argued that Ms. Harris did not sufficiently separate herself from President Joseph R. Biden Jr. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/e1mxbsL

Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/ABgV6m2

The secretary of state is the son of immigrants who left Cuba before the Castro revolution to look for economic opportunities. Yet, he pursues change with the zeal of a political exile. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/flEt9Ds

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Officials ordered more than 23,000 to evacuate after a brush fire broke out in Simi Valley, Calif. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/bIWcmJ1

The Trump administration is creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people it says were wronged by the federal government, a group that could be largely made up of the president’s allies. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/vhcNUAk

Video shared on social media showed the jets striking each other and spinning toward the ground. At least four parachutes were deployed before the planes crashed. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/59UIlpR

Gov. Jared Polis’s decision to commute the sentence of Tina Peters came after months of tense discussions, including one with President Trump. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/8wkcZDV

He was defeated in the Republican primary in Louisiana on Saturday. Representative Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming are now in a runoff for the party’s nomination. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/jqzpWLK

Senator Bill Cassidy, a two-term Republican who voted to convict President Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, could not muster enough votes to continue to a runoff next month. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/3zMpb6N

A crowd gathered at a pivotal site of defiance in the civil rights movement, this time in opposition to efforts by Republicans to eliminate majority-Black districts. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/yA9dL76

Votes cast for the House candidates on Saturday’s primary ballot won’t count after state officials moved the election to November to provide time to redraw congressional maps. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/cFKA0Z7

The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/xVQsyge

The ads with a repetitive jingle encouraging people to donate cars do not disclose that most of the proceeds go to a Jewish organization in New Jersey, the judge ruled. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/EYTaGSp

What started as a taco stop with former President Barack Obama quickly turned into a very Texas debate over the proper breakfast taco order. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/zeDlurw

David Cates, a psychologist working with Americans exposed to the disease on the MV Hondius, said psychosocial supports are just as important as physical care. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/c1GpATj

Stephen Cloobeck, a wealthy developer who dropped out of the governor’s race in November, was arrested on suspicion of witness tampering in a felony case involving his fiancée, a former Penthouse model. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/oJquFPM

The war in Iran has cast a shadow of uncertainty on both superpowers, dimming early hopes that they could begin to address the larger issues that have frayed their relationship. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/Kifzamj

State officials asked the justices to overturn a Virginia Supreme Court decision that struck down a congressional map, a major defeat for Democrats. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/OUEwBaW

Black residents, who make up 25 percent of Fayette County, Tenn., won a new electoral map last year to change an all-white board of commissioners. They worry the Supreme Court’s ruling could threaten that. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/PnT5asx

The passengers will be monitored in Omaha at the country’s only federally funded quarantine center. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/3Pj41Eo

The Trump administration said last week that the war had run its course, but the U.S. president and Israel’s prime minister in interviews on Sunday did not rule out renewed combat. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/ysNTE5P

The bodies were discovered in the city of Laredo, and it was not immediately clear what the cause of death was, the authorities said. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/ov6cNgS

A speck of blue on an otherwise red area in some presidential elections, the dot is now dividing candidates in a key midterm contest. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/13Y6jJS

Authorities said they did not recover Ms. Smart’s remains during a search of property tied to the family of the man convicted of killing her. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/oRP1Me8

The man was found with injuries “consistent with those sustained by a bear encounter” three days after leaving for a hike, the National Park Service said. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/VWCs8Jh

He led the Atlanta Braves to victory in the 1990s and was later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his leadership. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/5H1V8pP

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/KmUebMd

A California sheriff said investigators were searching the backyard of a woman whose son was convicted of murdering Ms. Smart, who went missing in 1996. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/adynwh7

The United States and its partners have burned through an enormous amount of air defense missiles in the Iran war, and production is slow. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/FU3Daen

Mohamed Sabry Soliman pleaded guilty to 101 charges, including one count of murder, after the firebombing attack in Colorado last June. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/3U0zoVi

A three-judge panel in Washington heard arguments in the lawsuit aimed at stopping the Pentagon from disciplining Senator Mark Kelly for a video warning about illegal military orders. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/3lmjL7b

The suspect, a 45-year-old from Texas, faces three charges, including assaulting federal officers with a dangerous weapon. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/K27VMN3

The influencer, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, fired 12 shots at the gator from an airboat in the Florida Everglades. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/lkFKIWu

Officials withheld a detainee’s overseas arrest warrant from a federal judge. When she ordered his release, they used the same information to attack her publicly. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/GqFrRZa

The agency’s scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/bTsKYHt

The Biden administration called Dimitri Simes, a former Trump adviser, a Russian propagandist. He says the charges against him violate free speech. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/WtP6wbG

A federal magistrate ordered that the D.C. Department of Corrections explain why it had placed Cole Tomas Allen in especially restrictive conditions. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/8NTxeDC

With President Trump’s visit to Beijing looming, China is pushing Iran to negotiate even as its companies export material that could be used by Iran’s military. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/on8Q6qV

The conspiracy theories around the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt hurt Helen Comperatore, but in this age of distrust, partisanship and social media, she nurtures a conspiracy theory of her own. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/GACN9jZ

The brightly colored jellylike marine life, called “Velella velella,” show up every few years when strong winds blow in the right direction, scientists said. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/b3CiDWI

Prosecutors have accused the man of hitting federal agents with his vehicle as they tried to arrest him. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/bWfvKNx

The comments came one day after Mr. Trump flatly rejected the proposal. He later clarified he was only briefed on the “concept of the deal.” from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/cpDzUh4

On the first day of early voting, some glimpses of voter bewilderment came into focus, part of a dizzying scramble playing out days after a major Supreme Court ruling. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/AZvFT5V

A car rammed through the front entrance of the Multnomah Athletic Club around 3 a.m. on Saturday, killing the driver. The authorities said they found “evidence of an explosive device” in the car. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/NXHy9LO

Legal challenges are mounting over the decision to suspend the state’s May House primary after a Supreme Court ruling found that the congressional map was unconstitutional. from NYT > U.S. News https://ift.tt/AqEIrSs