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Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Law Firms With Order Targeting Perkins Coie

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Devlin Barrett
The order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the president sees as aiding his enemies.

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President Trump’s order makes Perkins Coie, which did legal work for Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign, the second law firm to be targeted for retribution.

Ricardo Scofidio, Boldly Imaginative Architect, Is Dead at 89

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Fred A. Bernstein
With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he brought a conceptual-art sensibility to cultural landmarks like Lincoln Center and to innovative public spaces like Manhattan’s High Line.

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Ricardo Scofidio in 2007, several years after he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, became the first architects to be awarded MacArthur “genius” grants. “I’m always a little shocked when people try to make me realize we’re a big firm doing big projects,” he said, “because that was not the goal.”

Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5

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Stephanie Nolen
A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.

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Pete Marocco, left, the State Department official who has been overseeing cuts to U.S.A.I.D., arriving for a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.

Adnan Syed Will Not Return to Prison, Judge Rules

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Simon J. Levien， Christina Morales and Amanda Holpuch
A judge reduced his sentence to time served in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, ending a case that drew widespread attention when it was dissected in the “Serial” podcast.

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Adnan Syed in 2022, after a judge vacated his murder conviction. His case was the subject of the first season of the “Serial” podcast in 2014.

State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

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Edward Wong and Mark Mazzetti
American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.

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The reductions at the State Department are part of both President Trump’s larger slashing of the federal government and his “America First” foreign policy.
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