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Today — 19 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years

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By: River Akira Davis
19 December 2025 at 11:28
The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households.

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The rate increase is widely viewed as an attempt to ultimately help cool inflation and give wages a chance to keep up.

Takeaways From the Trial of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan

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By: Julie Bosman
19 December 2025 at 11:05
The Milwaukee judge was charged with obstructing federal immigration agents, who were trying to arrest a man who had appeared before her on a battery charge.

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Judge Hannah C. Dugan, right, outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee earlier this week.

Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant

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By: Julie Bosman
19 December 2025 at 10:54
The Wisconsin state judge, Hannah C. Dugan, was accused of ushering a man to a side door as federal agents waited outside a courtroom.

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Judge Hannah C. Dugan entered court on the first day of her federal trial.

Several Billion Dollars Were Lost to Fraud in Minnesota, Prosecutors Say

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By: Ernesto Londoño
19 December 2025 at 09:39
Federal prosecutors said they were now investigating fraud worth billions of dollars in 14 social services programs in the state.

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Federal agents executed a search warrant as part of a fraud investigation in Minnesota.

New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

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By: Carol Rosenberg
19 December 2025 at 08:58
The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

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Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a student at Georgetown University on Sept. 11, 2001. He is now the fifth judge to preside in the military commission case of defendants in the terrorism attacks.

Democratic State Lawmakers Vow to Unite and Push Back on Trump’s Deportations

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By: David W. Chen
19 December 2025 at 08:15
Lawmakers from a half-dozen states said Thursday they will use legislation next year to thwart the tactics of federal law enforcement carrying out immigration policies.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal law enforcement officers conducted a street raid in New York in October.

James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88

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By: Jonathan Martin
19 December 2025 at 08:21
During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.

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Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.

Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela

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By: Charlie Savage
19 December 2025 at 07:29
The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

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Mr. Trump says an “armed conflict” makes the killings of people on the vessels lawful, but law-of-war experts say standards for a war to exist are not met.

TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban

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By: Emmett Lindner
19 December 2025 at 09:24
The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States.

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Investment agreements bring TikTok, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, closer to resolving years of questions about its future.

Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Decade-Old Antisemitic Posts Re-emerge

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By: Dana Rubinstein
19 December 2025 at 06:13
Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her just-announced post as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments after the Anti-Defamation League resurfaced the comments.

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Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her new post a day after it was announced, apologizing for her remarks and for becoming a distraction from the transition’s work.

Inside the Fight to Keep Mamdani’s Promise of 200,000 Affordable Homes

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By: Mihir Zaveri
19 December 2025 at 02:30
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take over as mayor of New York, his team and allies have been pushing back against proposals that could make it more difficult to build new homes in the city.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised to build 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade as part of the housing plan he released during his campaign.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr. and More Conservative Figures Announce Their Engagements

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By: Jesse McKinley
18 December 2025 at 08:02
Several prominent conservative figures have announced that they are engaged this week, news often celebrated by President Trump.

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Donald Trump Jr. confirmed his engagement this week to Bettina Anderson, a Florida influencer and Palm Beach socialite.

Jelly Roll Is Pardoned for Previous Robbery and Drug Convictions

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By: Emmanuel Morgan
19 December 2025 at 06:20
The clemency decision by Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee could make it easier for the country star to travel internationally.

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Jelly Roll was found guilty of participating in an armed robbery in 2002. In another case, the police found cocaine and marijuana in his car.

The Junior Congressman Who’s Pushing Republicans on Epstein

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By: Michael Gold
19 December 2025 at 07:33
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.

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Mr. Garcia, 48, is a former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., who has been in Congress fewer than three years. He has been leading Democrats on the Oversight Committee, the House’s top investigative panel, for almost six months.

Man Accused of Dismembering Woman Had Surgical Skills

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By: Corey Kilgannon and Nate Schweber
19 December 2025 at 05:11
The remains of a woman and her child were found near Gilgo Beach on Long Island. Prosecutors accused Andrew Dykes, the father of the child, who had worked in Army clinics, in the woman’s murder.

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Tanya Jackson began imploring Andrew Dykes to give more time and fatherly attention to Tatiana, prosecutors said.

Brown Shooting: Authorities Search for a Person With Possible Connection to MIT Killing

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By: Chelsia Rose Marcius and Maria Cramer
19 December 2025 at 05:00
Investigators are also examining the possibility that the case is connected to the killing of an M.I.T. professor in his home in Massachusetts.

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A memorial to the victims of the shooting at Brown University in Providence, R.I.

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center

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By: Shawn McCreesh
19 December 2025 at 07:38
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was so named by law.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan Tapped the Power of the New York Pulpit

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By: Elizabeth Dias， Maya King and Ruth Graham
19 December 2025 at 04:00
From St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the White House to Fox News, he comfortably inhabited many spheres of influence.

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Timothy Dolan was installed as leader of the Archdiocese of New York in a ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 2009.

After Rob Reiner’s ‘North’ Flopped, He Proved He Could Take Criticism With Humor

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By: Victor Mather
19 December 2025 at 00:07
Roger Ebert said he “hated, hated, hated, hated, hated” Reiner’s 1994 film “North.” The director took it in stride.

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Rob Reiner on the set of “North” in 1994. The movie was released on the heels of several hit movies he had directed.

Nigeria Closes Lead Recycling Factories Linked to U.S. Car Industry

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By: Peter S. Goodman， Will Fitzgibbon and Victor Adewale
18 December 2025 at 18:03
Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

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Collecting soil samples at True Metals, in Ogijo, Nigeria, on Tuesday.

Atlantic City’s Mayor Is Found Not Guilty of Assaulting His Daughter

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By: Tracey Tully
19 December 2025 at 02:51
A jury on Thursday acquitted Marty Small Sr. of all four crimes he was charged with, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his teenage daughter.

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Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife, Dr. La’Quetta Small, the superintendent of the city’s schools, arrive at the Atlantic County courthouse for closing arguments in his abuse trial.

N.Y.C. Subway Crime Is Down, Hochul Says, Rebutting Trump Officials

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By: Stefanos Chen
19 December 2025 at 02:23
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state would spend another $77 million on police patrols in the subway, acknowledging that felony assaults remain stubbornly high.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul pointed to the low crime rates in the subway system in the face of persistent criticism from Washington this year.

Trump Administration Tries to Stop Some Immigrants From Driving Trucks

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By: Peter Eavis
19 December 2025 at 03:03
The Transportation Department said the new rules were intended to make roads safer, but there’s no data to suggest that immigrants cause more truck accidents.

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Trucking has long attracted immigrants hoping to earn a potentially substantial wage soon after arriving in the United States.
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