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Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024

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Theodore Schleifer and Ashley Cai
The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.

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Both Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris benefited heavily from so-called dark money in 2024, but Democrats leaned more on the practice of funneling money through nonprofit groups that do not have to disclose their donors.

N.Y. Governor Will Sign Right-to-Die Bill for the Terminally Ill

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Grace Ashford
Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.”

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Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had agreed to sign the bill after adding amendments intended to protect New Yorkers from being pressured into life-ending decisions.

ICE Arrests Disrupt Schools, Prompting Fear Among Families

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Madeleine Ngo
President Trump’s immigration crackdown has at times resulted in arrests near schools, setting off concerns among parents, educators and students.

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Parents say they have grown concerned about taking their children to school, worried that they could be detained or that their children could witness violent arrests.

Tankers Under Sanction Are Only a Subset of Fleet Moving Venezuelan Oil

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Rebecca F. Elliott
The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.

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An oil tanker docked at Cardón Refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2021. More than 400 tankers have moved Venezuelan oil or related products since 2019, and these vessels are part of a bigger fleet of ships that trade oil illicitly.

Appeals Court Allows National Guard to Remain in D.C., for Now

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Zach Montague
A three-judge panel voted unanimously to allow troops to stay in the capital for the duration of the appeal, citing the city’s unique legal status.

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National Guard troops in Washington in August. A lower court judge had ordered that the troops be removed from the city, but the appeals court previously stayed the ruling while it considered the matter.

National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says

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Lisa Friedman， Brad Plumer and Jack Healy
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”

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National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate since its founding in 1960.
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