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After Charlie Kirk’s Death, Voters Agree Something Is Wrong in US

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Shawn Hubler， Edgar Sandoval and Audra D. S. Burch
In interviews from across the country, people expressed fear and wariness, and said that the country seemed to be spinning out of control.

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Outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix on Thursday. The organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday.

Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson’s Messy Split, in Dueling Lawsuits

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Jacob Bernstein， Vanessa Friedman and Jessica Iredale
In the messy, public split of the Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson, no accusations seem off limits.

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Erik Torstensson and Natalie Massenet, in 2016. The pair, thought of as fashion’s golden couple, were romantic partners and frequent business collaborators. Now they are in the middle of dueling lawsuits.

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down

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Kevin Roose
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, center, at a conference in Berkeley, Calif., in 2023. He has spent years worrying about the safety of artificial intelligence.

In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep

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Victoria Kim
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.

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Rising waters during a heavy storm and high tide on Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, in January. With each tide creeping higher, villagers fear their island may soon become uninhabitable.

Hyundai ICE Raid Detained Workers With Short-Term Business Visas

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Lydia DePillis and Hamed Aleaziz
Last week’s immigration operation at a battery plant highlighted a tactic that companies use to bring in foreign workers to establish new operations.

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Some of the people taken into custody during the raid of a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia came to the United States on visas for short-term business travel.

In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep

✇NYT | Top Stories
Victoria Kim
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.

© Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

Rising waters during a heavy storm and high tide on Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, in January. With each tide creeping higher, villagers fear their island may soon become uninhabitable.

Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees

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Michael Gold
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.

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Senator John Thune, the majority leader, began the process on Monday by introducing 48 of President Trump’s nominees together to allow them to be confirmed as a group.

Patel and F.B.I. Face Scrutiny as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large

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Glenn Thrush， Devlin Barrett and Adam Goldman
Already, a series of missteps by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, in recent months have invited worries that he has eroded public confidence in the agency.

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Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, attended a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York before heading to Utah to oversee the investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

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Stephanie Nolen， Jeanna Smialek and Edward Wong
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.

© Hilary Swift for The New York Times

The warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where millions of contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. were stored when the U.S. government defunded the agency.
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