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How to Panic Italians? Jack Up the Price of Espresso.

Prices for coffee beans have risen, but in a country where coffee drinking is a ritual, customers demand cheap espresso. That has left coffee bars in a bind.

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A cup of espresso at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Italy. Executives from Lavazza and Illy have warned for more than a year that higher coffee prices are most likely here to stay.

Columbia and Trump Near a Deal, With School Possibly Paying Millions

In return, the White House would restore some of the more than $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions.

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Columbia University was the first to be punished by the Trump administration with a freeze on research funding for allegedly tolerating antisemitism.

Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

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Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the company’s A.I. division, at a developer conference in May. Google is bringing on more A.I. talent.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.

Mark Snow, Who Conjured the ‘X-Files’ Theme, Is Dead at 78

It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television’s most memorable melodies.

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The composer Mark Snow in 2005 at his home recording studio in Connecticut. He tallied more than 250 film and television credits in a long and prolific career.

Man Had 14 Toucans Stashed in His Volkswagen Dashboard, U.S. Says

Carlos Abundez, 35, is facing federal smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery. The birds, a threatened species, were in stable condition.

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Carlos Abundez of San Ysidro, Calif., is charged with smuggling 14 live, bound Keel-billed toucans that the authorities said were hidden inside the dashboard of his Volkswagen Passat.

Heat Warnings Issued for Parts of Eastern Canada

Warnings were issued for southern Ontario and southwest Quebec as hot and humid weather is expected to linger through Thursday.

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Montreal is under a heat warning on Saturday and Sunday. Hot and humid weather is expected to linger in eastern Canada and southern Ontario and Toronto until Thursday.
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