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You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

24 October 2025 at 13:00
What happens when the state doesn’t curb predatory private powers?

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The interim president of Peru, José Jerí, in diagonal sash, with cabinet members. Three of his predecessors within the last five years have been impeached.

German Company Launches Ad After Its Lift Is Used in Louvre Heist

24 October 2025 at 12:51
The brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre on Sunday has turned into a marketing opportunity for Böcker, a German maker of cranes and elevators whose product was used in the heist.

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Alexander Böcker, the chief executive of the German crane manufacturer Böcker Machine Works, poses in front of a crane in Werne, Germany, on Thursday.

With Power Move on Rare Earths, China Plays Both Victim and Bully

24 October 2025 at 12:08
In weaponizing its dominance over the crucial minerals, Beijing is using tactics that it once denounced, potentially alienating nations it wants to court.

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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to meet with President Trump in South Korea next week. China has shown that it is ready to use its chokehold over rare earths against any country that stands in its way.

India’s Most Valuable Export: Tens of Millions of Workers

24 October 2025 at 12:00
India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan.

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Students studying Japanese in New Delhi. Schools like Furusawa Academy and Learnet Institute of Skills offer language classes to students who hope to get jobs abroad.

Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada

The president said he was motivated by an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that featured Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs in a 1987 radio address.

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President Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in the Oval Office earlier this month.

Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

24 October 2025 at 07:56
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

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President Trump in the state dining room of the White House on Thursday.

Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

24 October 2025 at 09:12
Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city police officers.

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National Guard troops patrolling around the Washington Monument in August.

Suspect in Palisades Fire Pleads Not Guilty to Setting Blaze

24 October 2025 at 09:03
Prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht deliberately set a fire in January that led to one of the most destructive blazes in California history. If convicted, he would face up to 45 years in prison.

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The Palisades fire in January grew to burn more than 23,000 acres, and it destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles. Twelve people died in the blaze.

A Girls Basketball Team Gives Up Its Title After Spotting a Scoring Error

23 October 2025 at 17:02
The team in Oklahoma City forfeited its district championship earlier this year after the coach verified that a scoring error had incorrectly crowned them as winners.

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The girls high school basketball team of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies, displaying their districts trophy, before they returned it. Their coach, Brendan King, stood on the far right.

Tensions Mount as Agents, Including Gregory Bovino, Clash With Chicagoans

24 October 2025 at 07:59
Mr. Bovino, a Border Patrol leader, appeared to use tear gas during a confrontation with residents on Thursday. Plaintiffs in a suit over federal tactics say that violated a court order.

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Gregory Bovino, at center, with federal agents during a confrontation with residents in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Thursday.

Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases

24 October 2025 at 07:38
A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.

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Migrants being escorted off a military plane at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, earlier this year. The Homeland Security Department has been using the base on and off in President Trump’s second term to house migrants awaiting deportation.

U.S. Charges N.B.A. Figures in Gambling Schemes That Tainted Games

Terry Rozier, a Miami Heat guard, and Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, were among those arrested. Two indictments spanned the worlds of professional sports, Mafia families and online betting.

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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said one mark lost $1.8 million at cards.

U.S. B-1 Bombers Flew Near Venezuelan Air Space

24 October 2025 at 07:12
The long-range B-1 bombers can carry up to 75,000 pounds of guided and unguided munitions, the largest nonnuclear payload of any aircraft in the Air Force arsenal.

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Visitors wait to see inside a Rockwell B-1 Lancer during an airshow at the Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, in April.

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

24 October 2025 at 07:24
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.

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Meta has been under regulatory scrutiny for its handling of user data.

Musk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract

24 October 2025 at 06:58
The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a news conference at the Capitol on Thursday.

After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes

When a radio host suggested that Zohran Mamdani would celebrate another Sept. 11-style attack, Andrew Cuomo chuckled. Democrats denounced the exchange as Islamophobic.

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As Mayor Eric Adams, announced his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for mayor on Thursday, he warned that Islamic extremism could harm New York as it has other countries.

How Mamdani Has Evolved in the Mayoral Race

Zohran Mamdani entered the final debate in the New York City mayoral race ahead in the polls. Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The New York Times, describes Mr. Mamdani’s strategy to appeal to the wider electorate before early voting begins.

Here Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments

24 October 2025 at 06:27
More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Federal and local law enforcement officials announced on Thursday dozens of arrests into what they described as illegal gambling schemes.

NBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know

24 October 2025 at 06:43
Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, was among the former and current N.B.A. basketball players who were arrested on Thursday in connection with two illegal gambling investigations.

Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco

President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.

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People rallied on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall after President Trump called off a planned federal deployment in the city.

Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business

24 October 2025 at 07:03
Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games.

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New York City’s organized crime families have become less visible, but they remain alive and well, investigators say.

Here’s How the Poker Scheme Worked, According to Prosecutors

24 October 2025 at 02:21
The players cheated with sophisticated technology, and those who lost faced the threat of violence and extortion.

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Federal prosecutors said part of the cheating scheme relied on sophisticated technology.

The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia

24 October 2025 at 05:44
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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The headquarters of the Russian oil giant Lukoil in Moscow on Thursday.

Trump’s Ballroom Project Claims 123-Year-Old East Wing

24 October 2025 at 11:14
Critics are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.

© Jack E. Boucher/Historical American Buildings Survey, via Library of Congress

An undated photograph of the entrance to the East Wing of the White House.
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