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Today — 2 January 2025Main stream

Liz Cheney Is Among 20 Chosen to Receive Presidential Citizens Medal

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By: Aishvarya Kavi
2 January 2025 at 18:03
Two close advisers to President Biden will also be honored, in addition to career lawmakers who have worked across the aisle and advocates for liberal causes.

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The White House praised former Representative Liz Cheney for her “integrity and intrepidness.”

Officials Trying to Determine if New Orleans Suspect Had Ties to Terrorist Groups

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By: Eric Schmitt
2 January 2025 at 08:21
U.S. officials have warned that the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon could spill into the United States, most likely in the form of small radicalized groups acting on their own initiative or lone-wolf terrorists.

© Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times

A counterterrorism analyst said the attack in New Orleans on Wednesday was a fairly sophisticated assault, given the multiple layers involved: truck ramming, firearms and improvised explosive devices.

Democrats’ Battleground Leader, Exiting Congress, Reflects on What She Learned

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By: Luke Broadwater
2 January 2025 at 02:02
Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, the only Democrat in a leadership position to leave Congress this year, talked about her party, her competitive district, and what the Trump era has in store.

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Representative Abigail Spanberger at the Capitol last month.

Democrats’ Battleground Leader, Exiting Congress, Reflects on What She Learned

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By: Luke Broadwater
1 January 2025 at 23:49
Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, the only Democrat in a leadership position to leave Congress this year, talked about her party, her competitive district, and what the Trump era has in store.

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Representative Abigail Spanberger at the Capitol last month.
Yesterday — 1 January 2025Main stream

Let’s Try Something Different in How We Deal With Trump

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By: Tom Suozzi
1 January 2025 at 18:01
I know many voters reject my party’s significant leftward shift. So do I. Democrats need to refocus on bipartisan solutions to America’s problems.

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Trump Says He Plans to Attend Carter’s Funeral

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By: Maggie Haberman
1 January 2025 at 12:46
In wide-ranging remarks at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect also predicted that Mike Johnson would secure enough votes to be re-elected as House speaker.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump and Melania Trump arrived at a New Year’s Eve event at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.

Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary

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By: Adam Liptak
1 January 2025 at 07:06
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.

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“Violence, intimidation and defiance directed at judges because of their work undermine our Republic, and are wholly unacceptable,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in his year-end report.

F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm

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By: Alan Feuer
1 January 2025 at 02:03
Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.

© Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

The F.B.I. building in Washington. Investigators discovered a garage full of explosive devices on a property outside Norfolk, Va., prosecutors said.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Pentagon Appeals Court Upholds Plea Deals in Sept. 11 Case

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By: Carol Rosenberg
31 December 2024 at 12:38
The three-judge decision appeared, at least for now, to put plea proceedings for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two others back on track to take place in early January at Guantánamo Bay.

© Marisa Schwartz Taylor/The New York Times

The plea deals are a first step in a monthslong process that will potentially continue through 2025 at Camp Justice, the military commission complex Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Pentagon Releases Detainee Held at Guantánamo Since Day 1

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By: Carol Rosenberg
31 December 2024 at 13:05
The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison.

© Petty Officer First Class Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy

An image taken by the U.S. military on Jan. 11, 2002, showing the first prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, soon after their arrival.

‘Hanging Out With Jimmy Carter,’ Biden Faces the Echoes of History

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By: Peter Baker
31 December 2024 at 08:12
President Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office. But Mr. Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be remembered more favorably.

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President Jimmy Carter and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 1978. Both saw themselves as straight shooters in a world of spinners.

In Jimmy Carter’s Hometown in Georgia, Vigil Ends With Both Sorrow and Uplift

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By: Rick Rojas， Christina Morales and Christian Boone
31 December 2024 at 21:50
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.”

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Local residents and visitors remember President Jimmy Carter in his hometown, Plains, Ga.

After Jimmy Carter Won the Presidency, Democrats Lost the South

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By: Richard Fausset
31 December 2024 at 04:15
Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate.

© Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

Jimmy Carter at the 1976 Democratic National Convention.

China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major’ Breach, U.S. Says

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By: Ana Swanson and David E. Sanger
31 December 2024 at 16:35
The episode comes at a particularly sensitive moment, just as the Biden White House is dealing with one of the most far-reaching, and damaging, hacks into American infrastructure in the cyberage.

How Elon Musk Has Planted Himself Almost Literally at Trump’s Doorstep

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By: Maggie Haberman， Jonathan Swan and Ryan Mac
31 December 2024 at 04:10
For much of the period since Election Day, the billionaire has been staying at a $2,000-a-night cottage at Mar-a-Lago, giving him easy access to the president-elect.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Elon Musk has attended personnel meetings at Mar-a-Lago, sat in on phone calls with foreign leaders and spent hours with President-elect Donald J. Trump in his office.

China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major’ Breach, U.S. Says

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By: Ana Swanson and David E. Sanger
31 December 2024 at 09:30
The episode comes at a particularly sensitive moment, just as the Biden White House is dealing with one of the most far-reaching, and damaging, hacks into American infrastructure in the cyberage.

© Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times

The Treasury Department said it had worked with the F.B.I., the intelligence community and other investigators to determine the impact of the breach.

Trump Loses Appeal of Carroll’s $5 Million Award in Sex-Abuse Case

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By: Lola Fadulu
31 December 2024 at 04:54
The president-elect had asked a court to overturn the defamation judgment against him in the case, which centered on E. Jean Carroll’s account of a sexual attack in a dressing room.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

A federal appeals panel rejected a move by President-elect Donald J. Trump to overturn a $5 million judgment won by E. Jean Carroll, right.

Amy Carter, Thrust Into the Public Eye at a Young Age, Has Since Receded

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By: Sheryl Gay Stolberg
31 December 2024 at 02:31
Jimmy Carter’s daughter had an extraordinary and well-documented childhood in the White House. Since then she has for the most part lived a very private life.

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Amy Carter, the daughter of President Jimmy Carter, was the first child of a U.S. president to attend public school since Theodore Roosevelt.

Jimmy Carter Carved a New Mold for Ex-Presidents

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By: Sheryl Gay Stolberg
30 December 2024 at 23:56
Jimmy Carter redefined what a president can do after departing the White House, leaving a lasting imprint through his work overseas, particularly in the realm of public health.

© David Goldman/Associated Press

Former President Jimmy Carter, left, and Suleiman Jasir al-Herbish, the director general of the OPEC Fund for International Development, in 2010. The fund provided financial support for the Carter Center’s efforts to eliminate Guinea worm disease.

Trump Endorses Mike Johnson to Continue as House Speaker

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By: Maggie Haberman， Jonathan Swan and Carl Hulse
31 December 2024 at 04:24
The question of whether the president-elect would back the speaker for another term has hung over Republicans, especially after recent tensions. But the endorsement does not lock up the job for Mr. Johnson.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The endorsement ended days of private discussions by the president-elect and his allies about whether to try to save Speaker Mike Johnson.

What If Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan Lived In This Alternate Timeline?

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By: Thomas L. Friedman
31 December 2024 at 00:00
Carter’s vision and persistence on solar energy deserve to be brightly illuminated.

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President Jimmy Carter announcing his solar energy policy in 1979 in front of solar panels placed on the West Wing roof of the White House.
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