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Today — 22 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

C.E.O.s Are Trying to Avoid Trump’s Ire as Tariffs Hit Their Businesses

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By: Jordyn Holman
22 May 2025 at 01:24
Public companies are obligated to tell investors how tariffs could affect corporate financial results. But some are trying to do it with euphemisms to avoid the president’s anger.

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President Trump insists that other countries are paying the tariffs and doesn’t want to hear that companies are raising prices to deal with their higher costs.

Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year

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By: Sharon Otterman
22 May 2025 at 00:54
Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.

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Claire Shipman spoke in favor of the rights of international students during Columbia’s main graduation ceremony on Wednesday.

Some Students Weigh Leaving the U.S. for College

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By: Sara Ruberg
21 May 2025 at 17:00
Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some American students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries.

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Heidi Gilman, a high school senior who had once planned to attend the University of California San Diego. Instead, she is heading to Trinity College Dublin, where she will study politics.

OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

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By: Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
22 May 2025 at 01:00
OpenAI said it was buying io, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.

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Jony Ive, a former top executive at Apple, said that the goal with OpenAI was to create “amazing products that elevate humanity.”

A.I. Is Poised to Revolutionize Weather Forecasting. A New Tool Shows Promise.

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By: Rebecca Dzombak
22 May 2025 at 00:32
A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it’s designed to predict more than weather.

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A storm approached Le Portel in northern France in 2023. It was one of the weather systems used to test Microsoft’s Aurora program.

An Expensive Alzheimer’s Lifestyle Plan Offers False Hope, Experts Say

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By: Lindsay Gellman
22 May 2025 at 00:00
Thousands of people have paid for Dale Bredesen’s unconventional program to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms. The medical establishment says there’s little to no proof it works.

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After Kerry Briggs, 64, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she told her husband that she wanted to enroll in a clinical trial to help others. When she was rejected, she signed up for an unconventional lifestyle program called “Recode” instead.

Pope Leo XIV Calls for Aid to Enter Gaza

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By: Elisabetta Povoledo
22 May 2025 at 00:14
Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue.

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Children waiting for a meal on Wednesday at a charity kitchen for displaced people in Gaza City.

Andriy Portnov, Former Ukrainian Official, Is Shot Dead in Spain

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By: Maria Varenikova and José Bautista
22 May 2025 at 00:23
Andriy Portnov was a senior aide to Ukraine’s former president Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was ousted in a 2014 uprising over his alignment with Moscow.

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Police officers securing the scene of a deadly shooting on Wednesday in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain, outside Madrid.

India’s Security Forces Kill Dozens in a Bid to Crush Leftist Rebels

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By: Pragati K.B.
22 May 2025 at 00:50
Military operations have intensified in recent weeks as the government has set a deadline of next year to defeat a decades-old Maoist insurgency.

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Members of the District Reserve Guard at their base in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh state in India. The country’s security forces have recently escalated their campaign to eliminate leftist militants.

If Justice Dept. Can’t Prosecute Trump’s Foes, It Will ‘Shame’ Them, Official Says

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By: Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
22 May 2025 at 01:23
Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President Trump demands his administration target enemies, with little evidence of criminality.

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Ed Martin, the Justice Department’s incoming “weaponization czar,” recently made a candid admission: He plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them.

U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump

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By: Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt
22 May 2025 at 00:17
The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.

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The Boeing 747-8 from Qatar at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida after President Trump took a tour of the plane in February.

Judge Finds U.S. Violated Court Order With Sudden Deportation Flight to Africa

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By: Alan Feuer， Tyler Pager， Hamed Aleaziz and Eric Schmitt
22 May 2025 at 01:40
Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.

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A ruling which was handed down in April, ordered officials to provide advanced notice of at least 15 days to any immigrants being deported to a country not their own so that they had a chance to challenge their removal.

When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers

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By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
21 May 2025 at 23:51
The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to take land for his border wall using eminent domain.

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Land in Donna, Texas, near the U.S. border.

The Last Lucille Roberts

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By: Alex Vadukul and Leslye Davis
21 May 2025 at 22:48
A forgotten fitness pioneer built an empire on the idea of creating a space for everyday women. Her devotees are still sweating through workouts at a faded gym in Queens.

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Lucille Roberts at one of her gyms in the 1990s.
Yesterday — 21 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

British Retailer M&S Says Cyberattack Will Cost It $400 Million

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By: Eshe Nelson
21 May 2025 at 23:21
The company also said it would take several more weeks to resolve issues relating to the attack, which came to light last month.

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A Marks & Spencer store in London, in January. The company said this month that some customer data had been stolen in a cyberattack.

Justice Dept. to End Oversight of Local Police Accused of Abuses

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By: Jacey Fortin， Devlin Barrett and Ernesto Londoño
22 May 2025 at 00:40
Days before the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, the Trump administration said that it would abandon efforts to reduce police violence there and in several other cities.

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Officials in Minneapolis said that they would go ahead with promised policy changes whether or not the agreement with the Justice Department was finalized.

Gerry Connolly, Democratic Congressman of Virginia, Dies at 75

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By: Christine Hauser
21 May 2025 at 21:49
Mr. Connolly had announced late last year that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus.

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Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia at a news conference outside U.S.A.I.D. headquarters in Washington in February.

House G.O.P. Races to Revamp Major Policy Bill, Grasping for Votes to Pass It

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By: Michael Gold and Catie Edmondson
21 May 2025 at 23:45
A key committee met after midnight and worked through dawn as Republican leaders finalized changes aimed at winning over holdouts in hopes of bringing the bill to the floor.

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Speaker Mike Johnson and his deputies have worked behind the scenes trying to get enough votes to push President Trump’s agenda forward.

School Bus Bombing in Pakistan Kills at Least 6, Including 4 Students

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By: Zia ur-Rehman
21 May 2025 at 22:18
The vehicle was carrying dozens of children to a military-run school in southwestern Balochistan Province, a region long roiled by rebel activity.

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Debris at the site of the blast on the outskirts of the Khuzdar district in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, on Wednesday.

Will Andrew Cuomo’s Mayoral Bid Be Helped or Hurt by a Federal Inquiry?

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By: Nicholas Fandos
21 May 2025 at 15:00
Even Mr. Cuomo’s rivals are not sure how news that the Justice Department is criminally investigating the former governor will affect his chances.

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The inquiry into Andrew M. Cuomo was opened in recent weeks by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington based on a criminal referral it received from House Republicans.

Israel Said It Eased Its Blockade, But Gazans Are Still Waiting for Food

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By: Aaron Boxerman， Bilal Shbair and Iyad Abuheweila
21 May 2025 at 21:56
Three days after Israel said it would ease its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the desperately needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.

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Displaced people at a charity food kitchen in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Federal Cuts Become ‘All Consuming’ at Harvard’s Public Health School

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By: Jenna Russell
21 May 2025 at 17:02
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.

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The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health receives 59 percent of its operating revenue from the federal government and other outside sponsors.
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