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Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

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J. David Goodman
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a far southwest suburb of Chicago, on Tuesday.

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

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Michael Gold
Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate in the race to be New York City’s next mayor, held a campaign event on a bus that crawled across Midtown Manhattan to highlight a signature proposal.

© Olga Fedorova for The New York Times

The M57 traveled at about 2.3 miles per hour on Wednesday afternoon, far below the citywide average speed of about 8 miles per hour.

How Zohran Mamdani Came to Embrace the Palestinian Cause

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Nicholas Fandos
As Mr. Mamdani seeks to reassure New York City he is open to compromise, his views on Israel and Palestinians have been the biggest exception.

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Zohran Mamdani’s opposition to Israel gained national attention in 2023, when he began a hunger strike to protest the country’s treatment of Gaza.

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

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Hamed Aleaziz， Adam Goldman and Anna Griffin
Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the president’s threats.

© Samantha Swindler/The Oregonian, via Associated Press

Protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 27. President Trump announced earlier that day that he would send troops to Portland to handle what he described as a “War ravaged” city.

The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment

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Stephanie Saul
An Israeli American student said he was assaulted during a protest. Two years later, Republicans continue to raise the episode in their campaign to force schools to punish the student protesters.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was accused of assaulting a counterprotester at a Harvard demonstration two years ago. The allegations have followed him since.

‘Les Misérables’ at 40: The Unlikely Story of a Hit

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Alex Marshall
Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going strong for four decades — and counting.

© Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

A scene on the barricades in “Les Misérables” at the Broadhurst Theater in New York in 2006. The show has been a hit around the world since premiering in London 40 years ago.
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