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Today — 18 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

Rare Chicago Dust Storm Turns Day Into Night

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By: Amy Graff
18 May 2025 at 06:49
Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.

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A dust storm approaching Normal, Ill., on Friday. Visibility dropped to a quarter-mile at Chicago Midway International Airport.

A Haven for High School Girls’ Wrestling, Filled With Grit and Pride

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By: Corey Kilgannon
17 May 2025 at 15:00
The Lucha Wrestling Club in the Bronx provides a safe place for an aggressive sport. The Bronx has more public high school girls’ teams than any other New York City borough.

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The level of wrestling in New York City can be as good it is anywhere in the United States. But in the Bronx, practices and matches have a decidedly different feel.

What Has Changed Since Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed? Not Much.

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By: Peter Coy
17 May 2025 at 20:00
Two years later, no major legislation or regulation has passed, and the basic problem that caused the crisis persists.

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Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March 2023, followed quickly by two other lenders, Signature Bank and First Republic.

Biden’s Interview With Hur Confirms What Many Suspected

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By: Lisa Lerer
18 May 2025 at 04:34
The former president’s halting responses to questions by a special counsel show him exactly as a majority of Americans believed him to be — and as Democrats repeatedly insisted he was not.

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In the days after the special counsel’s report was released, Democrats fanned out to vouch for President Biden. Administration officials asserted executive privilege in declining to release the audio recording.

Palm Springs Bombing Kills 1 and Damages Fertility Clinic, Mayor Says

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By: Claire Fahy and Simon J. Levien
18 May 2025 at 05:19
The explosion happened less than a mile from downtown Palm Springs. A bomb was in or near a vehicle by the clinic, Mayor Ron deHarte said.

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A fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif., was damaged in an explosion on Saturday.

Federal Courts Buck Trump Deportation Schemes, Focusing on Due Process Rights

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By: Alan Feuer and Abbie VanSickle
18 May 2025 at 03:25
The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciary.

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Detainees sit outside at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, the facility where Venezuelans at the center of a Supreme Court ruling are being held, in Anson, Texas, last month.

What if a Grocery Store Was More Like a Farmers’ Market?

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By: Alexandra Talty
17 May 2025 at 17:00
A farm stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., has found success with its local-first approach. But is the model replicable?

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Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., follows a farmers’ market meets grocery store model that makes it easier to shop locally and support small farms.

Steve Kiner, Linebacker Who Was Open About Drug Use, Is Dead at 77

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By: Richard Sandomir
18 May 2025 at 01:40
He was a star at the University of Tennessee when he began using LSD, mescaline and other drugs. He said he got clean while playing in the N.F.L.

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Steve Kiner in 1971. An All-American linebacker at the University of Tennessee, he went on to play for three N.F.L. teams, despite a serious drug problem. “I was doing acid every day,” he told The New York Times in 1974, “or coke or mescaline, anything I could get my hands on.”

New Jersey Transit Strike: Negotiations Resume a Day Earlier Than Expected

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By: Maia Coleman
18 May 2025 at 05:23
Agency executives and union representatives met Saturday afternoon, a day earlier than expected. A meeting with the National Mediation Board is scheduled for Sunday.

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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike on Friday after contract negotiations with New Jersey Transit broke down.

At Mexico’s 2 Legal Gun Shops, a Conflicted View of Firearms Is on Display

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By: James Wagner and Alejandro Cegarra
17 May 2025 at 17:00
While Mexicans have a right to own guns, they can only be legally bought at two military-run and tightly regulated stores, an effort to better control possession in a country awash with black market weapons.

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“Acquiring a gun legally is very satisfying because I know I’m doing things right,” said Eduardo Ignacio García Zavala, 32, who waited three months for his paperwork to be approved and then drove overnight from Zapopan in western Mexico to Mexico City to add a new precision rifle to his collection.

At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, Will Cassie’s Testimony Help Prove a Criminal Conspiracy?

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By: Santul Nerkar
17 May 2025 at 15:00
Casandra Ventura’s description of Sean Comb’s sex marathons and abusive behavior is expected to provide the foundation for the prosecution’s racketeering case.

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Casandra Ventura and Sean Combs had an existence that was at once rarefied and debasing.
Yesterday — 17 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

The Global Happiness Curve Is Collapsing. What Does That Mean?

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By: Christina Caron， Theodore Tae and Jonathan Corum
16 May 2025 at 16:00
For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve: Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that curve is starting to flatten. Christina Caron, a Well reporter, explains.

At Least 27 Dead After Tornadoes and Storms Tear Across Central U.S.

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By: Jenna Fisher， Emily Cochrane， Amy Graff and Corinne Boyer
18 May 2025 at 04:54
In Missouri and Kentucky alone, tornadoes killed at least 25 people, officials said. The spring storm season has been a brutal one for the region.

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How Father Bob Became Pope Leo

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By: Jason Horowitz， Julie Bosman， Elizabeth Dias， Ruth Graham， Simon Romero and Mitra Taj
17 May 2025 at 17:30
A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.

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An undated photograph of Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV.

Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears

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By: Caroline Kitchener
17 May 2025 at 17:01
Trump aides have discussed requiring insurers to cover the procedure, though one leading medical group says it has been shut out of the process.

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Eggs under a microscope at Texas Fertility Center in Austin.

Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research

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By: Nicholas Nehamas
17 May 2025 at 08:16
The proposed termination of medical research funded by the V.A. is part of the Trump administration’s broader pressure campaign against the university.

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Under the leadership of Doug Collins, the Department of Veterans Affairs has pledged to cut costs by canceling contracts and slashing more than 80,000 jobs, or roughly a sixth of its total work force.

Supreme Court Retains Temporary Block on Using Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

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By: Abbie VanSickle
17 May 2025 at 17:46
The justices sent the case back to a lower court to consider whether the Alien Enemies Act can be used to deport immigrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang.

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The Supreme Court’s order keeps in place a freeze on deportations that the justices had first imposed in April, as the president’s power to use the wartime act is weighed further.

‘Whom Shall I Fear?’ In South Texas, Two Bakers Face Trump’s Immigration Wrath.

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By: Edgar Sandoval and Gabriel V. Cárdenas
17 May 2025 at 17:01
A raid on Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos heralded the crackdown to come. Ahead of the owners’ trial for “harboring” undocumented workers, the community is seeing the impact of the president’s policies.

Jessica Castro selected treats from a case at Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. “They need us,” she said of the business.

Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine

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By: Anatoly Kurmanaev
17 May 2025 at 17:53
Many Russian soldiers say they would see a cease-fire along the current front lines as a failure, hinting at the nationalist discontent the Kremlin could face in accepting a cease-fire.

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Russian soldiers who served in the military campaign in Ukraine taking part this month in a parade in Moscow celebrating Victory Day, the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

Zohran Mamdani Courts Cool Crowd in New York Mayoral Campaign

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By: Joseph Bernstein
17 May 2025 at 17:01
Voguish downtowners are aligning themselves with Zohran Mamdani, a young assemblyman vying for New York mayor. Can their clout help a long-shot campaign?

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The mayoral candidate backstage at a rally at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in East Williamsburg.

Trump Wants an Iran Deal, but It May Be Weaker Than His Supporters Demand

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By: Steven Erlanger
17 May 2025 at 17:01
Iran rejects any deal that would ban it from any nuclear enrichment, long a demand of U.S. conservatives.

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An anti-American mural on the side of a building in Tehran last month. Arab leaders been urging President Trump to find a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear program.
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