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Assist or Resist: Local Officials Debate Trump’s Mass Deportation Threat

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Tim Arango and Hamed Aleaziz
Communities are divided on how much to cooperate with immigration agents. In San Diego, the sheriff has vowed to defy a new policy protecting migrants.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Migrants near a transportation hub in San Diego after getting released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in May. Typically, many migrants would have dates to appear in front of a judge later. On the cusp of a new presidential administration, many cities are weighing how to work with federal agencies if they are tasked with carrying out mass deportations.

A French Workshop Copies the World’s Great Sculptures

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Felicia Craddock and Dmitry Kostyukov For The New York Times
The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot.

© Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. The workshop was founded in 1794 to create casts of sculptures for the Louvre, and to provide art schools with reproductions.

Beaded Patterns That Help Tell the Story of a Culture

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Alec Scott
In Singapore, women in the Peranakan community have revived the art of creating figures and geometric designs on their slippers.

© Lauryn Ishak for The New York Times

Angeline Kong, a maker of beaded Peranakan slippers, at work in Singapore. She said it took her nearly three decades to master the craft, but it had made her feel more connected to relatives who wore such footwear.
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