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Today — 3 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

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

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

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 National Endowment for the Arts

3 May 2025 at 05:35
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 Chronic Disease Prevention

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

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

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. as Trump Closes Tariff Loophole

3 May 2025 at 04:41
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Justice Dept. Lawyers Say US Wants to Break Up Google’s Ad Technology

3 May 2025 at 02:01
In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Department indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.

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A lawyer for the Justice Department said that the government expected to ask the court to force Google to divest tools used to run its ad business.
Yesterday — 2 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

Republicans Wrestle With Trump’s Demands for Tax Cuts

3 May 2025 at 02:24
House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump’s campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.

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Congressional Republicans are straining to incorporate several of President Trump’s novel tax plans into legislation.
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