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Today — 16 August 2025NYT | Top Stories

Trump Is Testing D.C.’s Home Rule. What Is It?

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By: Emily Badger
16 August 2025 at 08:17
The city’s limited self-governance has set the stage for the president’s police takeover.

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The District of Columbia was granted a form of self-governance in 1973, but the federal government retained considerable oversight of the city.

California Lawmakers Release a Proposed House Map Favoring Democrats

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By: Laurel Rosenhall
16 August 2025 at 08:57
The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom held a campaign-style rally in Los Angeles on Thursday to urge voters to approve a redrawn congressional map in California.

4 Takeaways From the Week Trump Took Control of D.C.’s Police

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By: Jess Bidgood
16 August 2025 at 07:21
The administration’s grip on the city has only tightened as the week has worn on, while pushback has begun to intensify.

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The impression of a major military presence across the city has yet to materialize.

MAHA Draft Report Brings Relief to Some, Chagrin to Others

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By: Dani Blum， Benjamin Mueller and Alice Callahan
16 August 2025 at 06:36
A draft of an upcoming White House report on children’s health was not as harsh toward the agriculture industry as some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies had hoped.

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A sign warned of pesticide use on a strawberry farm in Oxnard, Calif. A draft report outlining proposals to improve children’s health did not include strong restrictions on pesticides.

Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters

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By: Kate Conger
16 August 2025 at 07:02
The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.

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An investigation of Media Matters by the Federal Trade Commission, above, “presents a straightforward First Amendment violation,” a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Trump Welcomes Putin With B-2 Fighter Jet Flyover and Red Carpet

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By: Katie Rogers
16 August 2025 at 06:57
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he stepped foot in the United States for the first time in a decade.

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President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin as the two leaders met at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage.

NY Weed Dispensaries Sue Regulators Over Misinterpretation of State Rules

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By: Taylor Robinson
16 August 2025 at 06:00
Last month, dozens of cannabis businesses were told they were located too close to schools after state officials realized they had misinterpreted regulations.

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The Housing Works Cannabis Company, New York State’s first legal recreational dispensary when it opened in 2022, may need to relocate because it is too close to a school.

Tommy McLain, the King of Swamp Pop, Dies at 85

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By: Clay Risen
16 August 2025 at 05:11
Playing a blend of rock, R&B and zydeco, he had a hit in 1966 with “Sweet Dreams” and inspired Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, among many others.

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Tommy McLain in 2022. He was part of a hybrid music tradition that emerged from Louisiana in the late 1950s.

Senator Josh Hawley Begins Child Safety Inquiry Into Meta’s A.I. Bot

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By: Cecilia Kang
16 August 2025 at 05:26
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.

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Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.

Priscilla Presley Locked in Feud With Former Business Partners

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By: Matt Stevens
16 August 2025 at 05:10
Elvis’s ex-wife has traded lawsuits in a financial dispute with former advisers that has grown ugly with an allegation that she prematurely “pulled the plug” on her late daughter, Lisa Marie.

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Priscilla Presley, 80, is engaged in a financial dispute with former business advisers that has escalated in the past week.

Masaoki Sen, a Kamikaze Volunteer and Japan Tea Ceremony Grandmaster, Dies

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By: Martin Fackler
16 August 2025 at 04:56
Spared from flying a suicide mission in World War II, he became a grandmaster of Japan’s venerable tea ceremony and used his stature to speak out against all wars.

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Masaoki Sen performed a traditional Japanese tea ceremony in 2011 at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Officers Clear More Homeless People from Sites Around Washington

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By: Mark Walker and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
16 August 2025 at 03:21
Local police now under federal oversight dismantled encampments, discarding tents and other belongings.

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Workers with Washington’s Department of Public Works loaded a tent into a garbage truck after Metropolitan Police cleared a homeless encampment in Washington Circle.

Environmental Groups Sue Over D.O.E. Report Downplaying Climate Change

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By: Lisa Friedman
16 August 2025 at 03:29
The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration from repealing the legal foundation for regulating climate pollution.

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Chris Wright, head of the Department of Energy.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans Is Indicted on Corruption Charges

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By: Rick Rojas and Pooja Salhotra
16 August 2025 at 07:39
LaToya Cantrell was charged with going to criminal lengths to carry out, and cover up, a romantic relationship with a city police officer assigned to protect her.

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LaToya Cantrell took office in 2018 as the first Black woman elected to lead New Orleans.

Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Reject Call for Arbitration

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By: Ian Austen and Matina Stevis-Gridneff
16 August 2025 at 05:26
Their union says one of its core demands, to receive pay for groundwork, is unlikely to be introduced in arbitration. The airline began canceling flights ahead of the potential strike.

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Passengers waiting at an Air Canada check-in counter at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada on Friday.

As Air Canada Strike Looms, Here’s What to Know About Flight Cancellations and More

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By: Nia Decaille
16 August 2025 at 01:46
A strike by the carrier’s flight attendants could disrupt 130,000 travelers a day, including international fliers. Here’s what to know if your flight is affected.

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Air Canada has already begun canceling flights in advance of the planned strike.

As Trump Tightens Hold on Kennedy Center, Top Theater Producer Resigns

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By: Michael Paulson
16 August 2025 at 01:04
Jeffrey Finn, a Broadway producer who has overseen theater programming at the Washington venue since 2016, will leave next month.

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The official overseeing theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stepping down.

Trump Depicted Youth Crime in D.C. as Rampant. Here’s What the Data Shows.

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By: Campbell Robertson and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
16 August 2025 at 01:26
Concerns came to a head during the pandemic, when carjackings surged and many of those arrested were children. Carjackings and other crimes have declined considerably.

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President Trump during a news conference in the White House Briefing Room on Monday.

For Some Venetians, This Overgrown Island Is Paradise

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By: Elisabetta Povoledo
16 August 2025 at 02:35
A citizens’ group is now in charge of the island of Poveglia, where they will create a park for anyone who wants to leave Venice’s maddening crowds of tourists behind.

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Members of the Poveglia for Everyone association on Poveglia, an island in the Venetian Lagoon. Last year, a court determined that the group could manage one of Poveglia’s three islets on a six-year renewable lease.

Congressional Democrats Move to End Trump’s Control of D.C. Police

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By: Michael Gold
16 August 2025 at 00:30
The legislation has little chance of success, given that Republicans control Congress.

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Officers with the Department of Homeland Security and Washington Metropolitan Police Department at a traffic checkpoint Wednesday in Washington.

How Trump-Putin Summit Signals Return to Imperial Thinking

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By: Damien Cave
15 August 2025 at 23:51
The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict.

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President Trump meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018.

Governor Hochul Pardons Laotian Immigrant to Stop His Deportation

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By: Luis Ferré-Sadurní
15 August 2025 at 22:50
The man had been convicted of manslaughter as a teenager after he admitted to fatally shooting a man during a pool hall confrontation in Brooklyn, arguing it was self-defense.

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“Unless I believe someone poses a danger, I follow what the Bible tells us: ‘Forgive one another as God in Christ forgave you,’” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement on Friday.

Fed Chair Faces Scrutiny — and Bats — at Major Policy Speech in Mountain Forum

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By: Colby Smith
15 August 2025 at 23:23
A colony of bats recently took up residence at the storied Jackson Lake Lodge, where central bankers and economic policymakers will convene next week for an exclusive gathering.

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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, will provide his economic outlook at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park in Jackson, Wyo., next Friday.

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

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By: Apoorva Mandavilli and Taiwo Aina
15 August 2025 at 23:48
The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

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Kaltum Mohammad with her daughter, Fatima, in the Gubio internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in November.
Yesterday — 15 August 2025NYT | Top Stories

Study Finds Planet Around Trappist-1 Star Shows No Signs of Life

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By: Jacey Fortin
15 August 2025 at 05:27
Astronomers had hoped to observe an atmosphere on one of the seven planets known to orbit Trappist-1, a red dwarf star. A new study found nothing to write home about.

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An artist’s concept of the exoplanet passing in front of its red dwarf star, which could be too volatile to allow for organic life.
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