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Britain Is Preparing for Attacks on Its Soil. Critics Say It Must Move Faster.

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Lizzie Dearden
As military officials sound the alarm over Russian hybrid attacks, the chair of Parliament’s defense committee said the government’s progress on ramping up home defense was “glacial.”

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British soldiers during an exercise in Smardan, Romania, in February. In June, the British government published a strategic defense review that said the country must move to “war-fighting readiness.”

New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

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Carol Rosenberg
The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

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Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a student at Georgetown University on Sept. 11, 2001. He is now the fifth judge to preside in the military commission case of defendants in the terrorism attacks.

James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88

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Jonathan Martin
During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.

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Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.

Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela

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Charlie Savage
The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

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Mr. Trump says an “armed conflict” makes the killings of people on the vessels lawful, but law-of-war experts say standards for a war to exist are not met.

Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Decade-Old Antisemitic Posts Re-emerge

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Dana Rubinstein
Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her just-announced post as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments after the Anti-Defamation League resurfaced the comments.

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Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her new post a day after it was announced, apologizing for her remarks and for becoming a distraction from the transition’s work.

Inside the Fight to Keep Mamdani’s Promise of 200,000 Affordable Homes

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Mihir Zaveri
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take over as mayor of New York, his team and allies have been pushing back against proposals that could make it more difficult to build new homes in the city.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised to build 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade as part of the housing plan he released during his campaign.

The Junior Congressman Who’s Pushing Republicans on Epstein

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Michael Gold
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.

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Mr. Garcia, 48, is a former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., who has been in Congress fewer than three years. He has been leading Democrats on the Oversight Committee, the House’s top investigative panel, for almost six months.
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