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Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere

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Kim Bhasin and Sophia June
Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

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John Furner, incoming chief executive of Walmart, left, and Sundar Pichai, Google’s leader, said at a conference in New York City this week that the two companies would use artificial intelligence to change how all businesses sold their products.

Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93

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Adam Nossiter
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

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Rhoda Levine in 1995 at a rehearsal for her production of Hindemith’s “Mathis Der Maler” at New York City Opera. She was acclaimed for clear, straightforward stagings of classics, rarities and new works.

How War With China Begins

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Nicholas Kristof
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

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A Taiwan fighter jet comes in for landing as China conducts military drills in the region.

A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

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Jack Healy and Michael Ciaglo for The New York Times
The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.

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Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium and uranium. He fills jugs of drinking water at Rocky Ford Food Market in Rocky Ford, Colo.

Despite Maduro’s Capture, Venezuelan Exiles Realize They’re Not Going Home Soon

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Jason Horowitz， José Bautista and Finbarr O’Reilly
Spain is home to the biggest collection of Venezuelan emigrants outside the Americas. Many cheered the capture of Nicolás Maduro, but are now adapting to the fact that his allies remain in charge.

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The handsome Salamanca streets, a neighborhood in Madrid known as Little Caracas, and frequented by Venezuela’s wealthy, oil rich diaspora, last week.

Can Cuba Survive Without Venezuela’s Oil?

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Frances Robles
President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.

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A Cuban-flagged oil tanker anchored near the Matanzas terminal this month in Cuba.

Before Criticizing Pro-Hamas Chants, Mamdani Sought Jewish Leaders’ Input

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Sally Goldenberg， Dana Rubinstein and Liam Stack
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.

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The protests outside a Queens synagogue on Jan. 8 featured insults and slurs from the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups that gathered at night, but most attention focused on chants in support of Hamas.

Gabriel Barkay, 81, Dies; His Discoveries Revised Biblical History

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Clay Risen
One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought.

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Gabriel Barkay in 2016, displaying a restored ancient tile excavated from the holy site in Jerusalem known to Jews as the Temple Mount. He earned a reputation as the “dean” of biblical archaeologists.

Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters

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Mitch Smith
A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.

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Minnesota residents have clashed with federal agents since late 2025, when the federal government began an immigration enforcement campaign that it named Operation Metro Surge.
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