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Today — 3 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

Before the Fire, L.A. Tried to Restore Second Reservoir in Palisades

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By: Mike Baker
3 May 2025 at 08:28
Water supplies ran dry in the Pacific Palisades fire, in part because a reservoir was shut down for repairs. Records show the city had tried and failed to prepare an alternative reservoir.

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Firefighters battling a blaze in the Pacific Palisades area of California in January.

Upheaval in Washington Hinders Campaign Against Bird Flu

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By: Apoorva Mandavilli
2 May 2025 at 02:48
Determined to cut costs and manage communications, the Trump administration is moving too slowly to contain the virus, experts say.

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Since bird flu first appeared on American dairy farms about a year ago, it has spread to more than 1,000 cattle herds in 17 states.

In Singapore’s Election, All Eyes Are on the Margin of Victory, Not the Winner

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By: Sui-Lee Wee
3 May 2025 at 08:00
The People’s Action Party is widely expected to continue its six-decade reign. But discontent with its policies is fueling a growing opposition.

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Workers’ Party supporters attending a final rally ahead of the general election in Singapore on Thursday.

Newark Airport Is Experiencing Major Flight Delays. What’s Causing Them?

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By: Christine Chung
3 May 2025 at 07:27
Staffing shortages at an air traffic control center have added to the effects of a runway closure, prompting United Airlines to cut flights at the hub.

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United Airlines, which operates an average of 328 round-trip flights a day at Newark Liberty International Airport, said it was cutting 35 of those flights starting this weekend because of air traffic control problems.

Weinstein Accuser, Miriam Haley, Breaks Down During Intense Cross-Examination

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By: Hurubie Meko
3 May 2025 at 06:59
Miriam Haley and a defense lawyer clashed repeatedly as the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sex crime charges continued.

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Harvey Weinstein, whose case is being heard in New York, has also been sentenced to 16 years in California.

Australia Election 2025: Voters Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns Amid Global Turmoil

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By: Victoria Kim
3 May 2025 at 04:00
Voters will decide who can turn Australia around from the throes of inflation and a housing crisis, and navigate relations with a volatile Washington.

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Electoral placards outside a polling place in the seat of Bennelong, an electoral division of Sydney, Australia, on Friday.

George Ryan, Illinois Governor Who Halted Prison Executions, Dies at 91

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By: Robert D. McFadden
3 May 2025 at 06:04
A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life.

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Gov. George H. Ryan of Illinois in 2001. A moderate Republican who had long favored capital punishment, he defended his decision to suspend the death penalty in Illinois as an act of conscience.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let DOGE View Social Security Data

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By: Adam Liptak
3 May 2025 at 05:51
A federal judge in Maryland found that scrutiny of the agency’s sensitive information systems by Elon Musk’s team appeared to violate federal privacy laws.

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Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency were restricted from accessing sensitive records of the Social Security Administration by a federal judge last month.

Trump Seeks to Eliminate the NEA

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By: Michael Paulson
3 May 2025 at 06:44
The president’s budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

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The president’s budget calls for elimination the endowments for the arts and the humanities, as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

Trump Budget Cuts Funding for CDC

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By: Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin
3 May 2025 at 05:32
Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

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Federal workers outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington on April 1.

Former Abercrombie C.E.O. Ruled Unfit to Stand Trial for Sex Trafficking

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By: Santul Nerkar
3 May 2025 at 05:13
Michael S. Jeffries had been accused of luring male models to secret sex parties. He has dementia, and a judge ruled him to be “mentally incompetent.”

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Michael S. Jeffries, who prosecutors said coerced models into sex, had presided over several crises at Abercrombie and Fitch. He left the clothing retailer in 2014.

Trump Says He’s ‘Taking Away’ Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status

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By: Andrew Duehren， Maggie Haberman and Alan Blinder
3 May 2025 at 05:50
President Trump on Friday said he would be “taking away” the university’s status, renewing a threat he made last month. It was not immediately clear if the I.R.S. was moving forward with a change.

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The campus at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Temu Stops Shipping Products From China to U.S. Customers as Trump Closes Tariff Loophole

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By: Madeleine Ngo
3 May 2025 at 07:02
The e-commerce site acted after the Trump administration said it would close a loophole that allowed low-cost Chinese-made items to enter the U.S. without import fees.

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A factory making garments for the Chinese e-commerce company Temu in Guangzhou, China.

Former Fetterman Aide Expressed Concern to Doctor About Senator’s Mental Health

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By: Annie Karni
3 May 2025 at 03:48
The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman last year wrote to a doctor who had treated him, pointing to “warning signs” that suggested the senator could be backsliding on his recovery from a mental health crisis.

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Senator John Fetterman at the Capitol last May.

RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination

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By: Teddy Rosenbluth
3 May 2025 at 03:33
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, in Washington last month.

Paramilitary Fighters Massacre More Than 100 Civilians, Doctors’ Group Says

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By: Abdalrahman Altayeb and Alan Yuhas
3 May 2025 at 03:20
The Sudan Doctors Network said that the Rapid Support Forces had killed at least 21 children on Thursday, the latest violent spasm in Sudan’s civil war.

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A photograph made from video released by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces showing its fighters in the capital, Khartoum, in 2023.

Trump Gets a Slow Start on Judges After Setting a Record Pace in First Term

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By: Carl Hulse
3 May 2025 at 01:49
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.

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Senators Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, the chair and ranking members of the Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill last month.

Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13

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By: Natasha Singer
3 May 2025 at 02:05
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

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The Google chatbot will be available to children under 13 whose parents use Family Link.

South Korea Lurches From One Political Crisis to Another

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By: Choe Sang-Hun
2 May 2025 at 16:49
In five months, the country has had three acting presidents after the leader who imposed martial law was impeached. And now doubts cloud the coming election.

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Lee Ju-Ho, South Korea’s education minister and acting president, presiding over the national security council at the government complex in Seoul on Friday.

Prince Harry Says He Would ‘Love Reconciliation’ With Royal Family

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By: Lizzie Dearden and Esther Bintliff
3 May 2025 at 01:25
In a BBC interview, Harry said he didn’t know how long King Charles, who has cancer, had left to live, and he expressed a desire to make peace with his family.

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Prince Harry in London in April. On Friday, he said he wants to reconcile with the royal family. “There’s no point continuing to fight anymore,” he said.

Illinois Man Sentenced to 53 Years in Killing of Palestinian American Boy

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By: Robert Chiarito and Mitch Smith
3 May 2025 at 02:32
A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.

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A makeshift memorial near the home where Hanan Shaheen and her son, Wadee Alfayoumi, were attacked in Plainfield Township, Ill., in 2023.

Waltz’s Use of Messaging Platform Raises New Security Questions

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By: Isabella Kwai， Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger
3 May 2025 at 01:08
A Reuters photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.

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Michael Waltz, then the national security adviser, checking his phone during a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
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