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In Germany’s Depressed East, Tanks Are the Lesser of Two Evils

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Sam Gurwitt
Even leaders from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which opposes aid to Ukraine, have embraced the jobs that come with new weapons production.

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An armored transport vehicle at the Alstom factory in Görlitz, Germany, this year. The company KNDS has taken over the plant, which used to produce train cars, to instead make tanks and other military vehicles.

Chinese Surgeons Perform First Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant

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Roni Caryn Rabin
The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later.

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Chinese surgeons at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead recipient last year.

What We Know About the Remaining Hostages in Gaza

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Pranav Baskar
Israel says that there are still about 20 living hostages in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 25 others. Details of their release remain unclear.

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Mourners attend a dawn memorial service marking the two-year anniversary of the Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, in Kfar Aza, southern Israel.

Katie Porter Goes Viral for ‘Unhappy’ TV Interview in California Governor’s Race

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Laurel Rosenhall
The former Democratic congresswoman, known for her own grilling of executives on Capitol Hill, threatened to abandon an interview after she was asked several follow-up questions.

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Katie Porter, a former congresswoman, went viral on Wednesday after she grew frustrated by a television reporter and threatened to abandon an interview after several follow-up questions.

Pope Leo Urges U.S. Bishops to Support Immigrants as Trump Escalates Deportations

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Elizabeth Dias and Elisabetta Povoledo
The pope conveyed the message as President Trump escalated his deportation campaign, including in Chicago, the pope’s hometown.

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Pope Leo XIV blessing a child in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday. Pope Leo celebrated a special Holy Year Mass for migrants, calling for an embrace of those fleeing poverty, violence and suffering.

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action

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Edward Wong， Eric Schmitt and Julie Turkewitz
The Pentagon has deployed 10,000 U.S. troops to the region, most of them to bases in Puerto Rico, a senior military official said.

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The Fort Lauderdale, a Navy amphibious transport ship, off the coast of Puerto Rico this week. Since early September, the U.S. military has carried out at least four lethal strikes on civilian boats.

Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

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J. David Goodman
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.

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Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a far southwest suburb of Chicago, on Tuesday.

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

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Michael Gold
Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate in the race to be New York City’s next mayor, held a campaign event on a bus that crawled across Midtown Manhattan to highlight a signature proposal.

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The M57 traveled at about 2.3 miles per hour on Wednesday afternoon, far below the citywide average speed of about 8 miles per hour.
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