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Today — 10 January 2025NYT | Top Stories

Rare Winter Storm Sweeps Across the South: What to Know

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By: Judson Jones
10 January 2025 at 18:59
A storm that brought snow and ice to the Gulf Coast states was moving east on Friday.

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Cars piled up on a snow-covered highway in Plano, Texas, on Thursday.

Supreme Court Rebuke of Trump on Sentencing Shows Its Divisions

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By: Adam Liptak
10 January 2025 at 11:12
Two Republican appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett, joined the court’s three liberals in ordering the president-elect to face sentencing on Friday.

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The Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald J. Trump’s request to be spared from being sentenced for 34 felonies in New York.

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Could Shut Down TikTok

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By: Adam Liptak
10 January 2025 at 18:03
The justices are expected to rule quickly in the case, which pits national security concerns about China against the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.

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The Supreme Court’s decision will be among the most consequential of the digital age, as TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon that provides entertainment and information touching on nearly every facet of American life.

Can You Still Use TikTok if It’s Banned? What Users Should Know About the App.

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By: Eli Tan
10 January 2025 at 18:01
The social media app is likely to disappear from the app stores of Google and Apple right away. But it’s unclear if users will completely lose access.

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Without the ability for ByteDance to issue updates to TikTok, the app will likely degrade over time.

Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?

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By: Ben Casselman
10 January 2025 at 18:01
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.

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“Economists need to do a better job about understanding the problems people care about,” said Jason Furman, a former adviser to President Barack Obama.

December Jobs Report Is Expected to Add Clarity After Erratic Months

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By: Lydia DePillis
10 January 2025 at 18:02
Without the gyrations caused by strikes and storms, the overall picture for the close of 2024 is expected to reflect steady growth.

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The December jobs report will be released Friday.

What Dr. Ruth Left Behind

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By: Jennifer Schuessler
9 January 2025 at 23:44
Archivists from the Kinsey Institute are helping the family of the sex therapist Ruth Westheimer with a common quandary: How much of someone’s stuff do you keep?

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Books and memorabilia in the apartment of the sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, including one of her oversize dollhouses. “Her dollhouses are cluttered, just like her real house,” her son said.

With Hearings Imminent, Partisan Fight Escalates Over Trump Cabinet

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By: Carl Hulse and Karoun Demirjian
10 January 2025 at 18:03
Democrats are demanding that Republicans slow consideration of picks for the new administration until they can review background checks, as the G.O.P. faces major pressure to quickly confirm them.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump has made a special appeal for Pete Hegseth, left, his choice for defense secretary, who is scheduled to appear before the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

New York’s Chinese Dissidents Thought He Was an Ally. He Was a Spy.

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By: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
10 January 2025 at 18:00
Shujun Wang seemed to be a Chinese democracy activist, but an F.B.I. investigation showed just how far China will go to repress citizens abroad.

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Shujun Wang, a New Yorker convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent for the Chinese government, in December.

Lebanon Turns a Political Page as Hezbollah’s Hold Is Weakened

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By: Christina Goldbaum
10 January 2025 at 18:02
A stinging defeat in war has left the once untouchable group on its most uncertain footing in years.

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A portrait of a Hezbollah cleric at a destroyed Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, last month.

Venezuela’s Autocrat Detains U.S. Citizens As He Tightens Grip on Power

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By: Julie Turkewitz and Genevieve Glatsky
10 January 2025 at 18:01
President Nicolás Maduro will be sworn in for another six years on Friday, and he is hoping to use foreign prisoners to get his way on the global stage.

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President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, shown in July, has spent the last six months detaining foreigners, who experts say he plans to use as bargaining chips.

The Roller-Skating Economist You Can Thank for Congestion Pricing

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By: Ginia Bellafante
10 January 2025 at 16:00
Charging drivers to enter Lower Manhattan vindicates the lifelong mission of a Nobel laureate who, as it happened, died behind the wheel of a car.

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William Vickrey, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and father of congestion pricing.

Enron Is Back. Could This Possibly Be Real?

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By: Victor Mather
10 January 2025 at 04:32
One of the pranksters behind “Birds Aren’t Real” is back to revive a company synonymous with corporate malfeasance — it has merch and what it’s claiming is an at-home nuclear reactor.

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The Enron logo in front of the actual company’s building in Houston in 2002.

A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess

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By: The Editorial Board
10 January 2025 at 18:00
Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.

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China’s Central Bank Stops Buying Bonds as Deflation Fears Grip Economy

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By: Keith Bradsher
10 January 2025 at 17:58
The unexpected action is intended to tamp down a potential bubble in the bond market fueled by investors shunning riskier assets like stocks and real estate.

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The decision by the People’s Bank of China to stop buying bonds came less than a week after it said it would try to make ample money available for economic growth.

R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador, Says China Is Aligned With ‘Agents of Disorder’

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By: Keith Bradsher
10 January 2025 at 13:13
R. Nicholas Burns, the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing, says the Biden administration is making a final push to urge China to reconsider its tilt toward Russia, Iran and North Korea.

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U.S. ambassador to China R. Nicholas Burns, at left, with Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, and President Biden during a meeting in November with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and other top officials.

Appeals Court Declines to Block Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump Cases

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By: Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer
10 January 2025 at 10:50
But the court left in place an injunction that bars the Justice Department from disclosing the report for another three days.

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The special counsel Jack Smith was forced to drop the election interference and classified documents cases once Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election.

Anita Bryant, Whose Anti-Gay Politics Undid a Singing Career, Is Dead at 84

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By: Anita Gates
10 January 2025 at 10:41
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading against L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

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Anita Bryant at her home in Miami Beach, Fla., in 1978.

U.S. Court Halts Guilty Plea Hearing for Accused 9/11 Mastermind

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By: Carol Rosenberg
10 January 2025 at 09:50
A three-judge appeals panel will decide whether the plea deal Khalid Shaikh Mohammed reached to avoid a death-penalty trial remains valid.

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The Camp Justice sign at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims had been taken to the naval base to observe the plea hearing that had been set for Friday.

Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed ‘Rust’ Case

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By: Julia Jacobs
10 January 2025 at 09:13
Lawyers for the actor accused law enforcement officials of waging a “malicious prosecution” against him after the 2021 shooting death of a cinematographer on a film set.

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Alec Baldwin’s lawyers accused the prosecutors of a series of violations, including claims that they had failed to disclose evidence to the defense on several occasions.

Man Convicted in Pizzagate Shooting Is Killed in Confrontation With Police

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By: Hank Sanders
10 January 2025 at 08:21
Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, of Salisbury, N.C., who was sentenced to four years in prison for the 2016 shooting at a Washington restaurant, was fatally shot after he pointed a gun at an officer during a traffic stop, the police said.

Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Maria Corina Machado, Is Freed After Being Detained

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By: Julie Turkewitz
10 January 2025 at 06:32
During her detention, an aide said, Maria Corina Machado “was forced to record several videos.” She has garnered enormous support for her opposition to Nicolás Maduro.

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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was briefly detained on Thursday after appearing at a protest in Caracas.

How a Phone Call Drew Alito Into a Trump Loyalty Squabble

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By: Jonathan Swan， Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman
10 January 2025 at 09:55
The phone call centered on a former law clerk of Justice Alito’s. In the eyes of the Trump team, the clerk still needed to prove his loyalty to the president-elect.

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President Donald J. Trump and Justice Samuel A. Alito in the Oval Office in 2019.
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