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Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’

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Anupreeta Das
States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.

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Raj Thackeray, left, and Uddhav Thackeray at a recent rally in Mumbai. They are cousins and both politicians in Maharashtra. Though they had a falling-out years ago and started rival parties, the effort to require primary schools in Maharashtra to teach Hindi has reunited them in opposition to the plan.

They Fled War in Ethiopia. Then American Bombs Found Them.

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Shuaib Almosawa and Vivian Nereim
In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shredding limbs. Amid official silence, the survivors are left wondering why.

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“The place and everyone in it were mangled,” said Fanta Ali Ahmed, 32, from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. He was injured in April in the bombing of a migrant detention center in Saada, Yemen.

Texas Court Seals Records in Ken Paxton’s Divorce Case

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J. David Goodman
The order meant details in the case, which involves allegations of adultery, would not be public as the Texas attorney general challenges Senator John Cornyn in the 2026 primary.

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Ken Paxton said his relationship with his wife was strained by the pressures of public life and “countless political attacks.”

Bill Dilworth, Caretaker of ‘The New York Earth Room,’ Is Dead at 70

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Penelope Green
For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages to see it — and Mr. Dilworth, its magnetic steward.

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Bill Dilworth in 1999, with Walter De Maria’s monumental artwork “The New York Earth Room.” Mr. Dilworth was the installation’s caretaker for 35 years.

Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers

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Aaron Boxerman and Fatima AbdulKarim
Palestinian authorities and family members said Israeli settlers beat and killed a Palestinian-American man. Israel said the violence began when Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians.

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Israeli soldiers holding back Palestinians trying to get to injured Palestinians after clashes with Israeli settlers in Sinjil in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.

How Luggage Maker Eagle Creek Has Survived Trump’s Trade War. So Far.

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Sydney Ember
Eagle Creek’s experience underscores how President Trump’s chaotic approach to tariffs is having a real impact, even before the toughest levies take effect.

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“All this scenario planning is like a hidden tax on business,” said Travis Campbell, the owner and chief executive of Eagle Creek, a company based in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
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