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Today — 14 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

Abraham Quintanilla Jr., Music Producer and Father of Selena, Dies at 86

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By: Jesus Jiménez
14 December 2025 at 05:33
As a teenager, he hoped to make it big in the Tejano music world. He realized that dream through his daughter.

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Abraham Quintanilla Jr. in 2017. With his daughter Selena doing vocals, he turned his small family band into a Grammy-winning act, and Selena became known as the queen of Tejano music.

Active Shooter Alert Issued at Brown University in Rhode Island

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By: Hannah Ziegler and Rylee Kirk
14 December 2025 at 06:34
The university warned students to hide in an alert late Saturday afternoon. A suspect was not in custody, university officials said, correcting an earlier posting.

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Emergency responders on the scene of a reported shooting on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. on Saturday.

Flight Returns to Dulles After Engine Failure During Takeoff, F.A.A. Says

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By: Mark Walker and Aimee Ortiz
14 December 2025 at 05:14
United Airlines Flight 803, which was headed to Toyko, safely landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday, officials said.

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Smoke from a fire near Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday.

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

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By: Eshe Nelson and Ana Swanson
14 December 2025 at 01:48
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in September, after signing an agreement that pledged to extend research collaborations and deepen partnerships in the tech industry.

Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions

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By: Valerie Hopkins and Tomas Dapkus
14 December 2025 at 01:50
The release of the prisoners, including a Nobel laureate and two opposition leaders, was part of a monthslong rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader, welcoming Ales Bialiatski, a political activist released by Belarus, as he arrived Saturday at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Trump’s Nvidia Deal Undermines National Security

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By: Kathleen Kingsbury， Lauren Dominguez Chan and James Robinson
14 December 2025 at 00:49
This week, Donald Trump announced that he would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chips to China. The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that the move undermines national security.

DoorDash Deliverer Faces Tampering Charges Tied to Food Order

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By: Aimee Ortiz
14 December 2025 at 02:29
The authorities said the woman, who was making a delivery for DoorDash, was captured on a doorbell camera spraying an unknown aerosol.

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A woman who was making a DoorDash delivery was charged with battery and consumer product tampering after she was seen in doorbell footage aiming a spray from a can in the direction of the food order, officials said.

MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.

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By: Hiroko Tabuchi
14 December 2025 at 01:14
A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.

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Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, appeared with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Salt Lake City earlier this year. Recently, Mr. Zeldin has gone on a charm offensive.

The Young Conservatives Fixated on H-1B Visas

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By: Nathan Taylor Pemberton
14 December 2025 at 01:00
For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic.

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Young conservative Americans part of the America First wing have fixated on the visa program as they grow disillusioned with the president’s promises on immigration and frustrated with the job market.

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine

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By: Paul Sonne
13 December 2025 at 18:04
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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The Russian entertainer Ivan Urgant, right, hosting “Evening Urgant,” which went dark in 2022, after he made an antiwar post on social media.

Israel Says It Killed Senior Hamas Commander, Despite Cease-Fire

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By: Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
14 December 2025 at 01:13
Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel’s claim to have killed one of its members.

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A destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.

Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School

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By: Adam Nossiter
13 December 2025 at 22:13
She was one of the Clinton 12, Black students who broke a race barrier by entering a Tennessee high school in 1956 in the face of harassment by white segregationists.

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Jo Ann Allen, left, and Minnie Ann Dickey at Clinton High School in Tennessee in September 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools.

Israel Says It Killed Senior Hamas Commander, Despite Cease-Fire

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By: Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
14 December 2025 at 00:41
Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel’s claim to have killed one of its members.

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A destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.

Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein

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By: Ginia Bellafante
14 December 2025 at 00:30
The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

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An image released by the House Oversight Democrats showing Jeffrey Epstein with Woody Allen

3 Americans Killed in ISIS Attack in Syria, Trump Says, Vowing to Retaliate

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By: Abdi Latif Dahir， Christina Goldbaum， John Ismay and Eric Schmitt
14 December 2025 at 06:09
Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

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By: Eduardo Medina and Nick Madigan
13 December 2025 at 18:02
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

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Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
Yesterday — 13 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, State Media Says

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By: Abdi Latif Dahir and Christina Goldbaum
14 December 2025 at 00:07
Injuries were reported in an assault near the ancient city of Palmyra, the Syrian government’s news agency said.

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American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.

Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks

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By: Kim Barker
13 December 2025 at 21:34
Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.

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Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Saturday.

Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of Tina Peters Rejected by Colorado Officials

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By: Jack Healy
14 December 2025 at 00:20
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

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Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court in Grand Junction, Colo., last year.

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

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By: David A. Fahrenthold， Shane Goldmacher， Tyler Pager and Theodore Schleifer
13 December 2025 at 18:00
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has only just begun to raise money for a presidential library, starting with an event for potential donors on Monday in Washington.

Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out

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By: Debra Kamin
13 December 2025 at 19:52
Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.

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Mayor Eric Adams said that his ability to lead New York City was compromised well before his federal indictment.

Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?

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By: Adam Rasgon， Natan Odenheimer and Aaron Boxerman
13 December 2025 at 18:14
The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know.

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Displaced Palestinians shelter in tents surrounded by destroyed buildings near Gaza City, last month.

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

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By: Eduardo Medina and Nick Madigan
13 December 2025 at 18:02
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

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Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
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