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Volunteers in Helicopter Rescue Hiker’s Dog After a Week in the Wilderness

A hiker in New Zealand fell 180 feet down a waterfall and was evacuated without her dog. A crowd-funded rescue effort reunited them.

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A rescuer carrying Molly, the dog on the right, away from a remote waterfall on the Arahura River on the South Island of New Zealand, where she was found on Tuesday, a week after being separated from her owner.

Every Trump Threat to Abandon NATO Hollows It Out

Doubts that the United States would come to the aid of NATO allies increase each time, prompting Europeans to consider an alliance without Washington.

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U.S. soldiers in a military exercise with NATO members in Romania in June. The U.S. secretary of state has warned that relations with NATO will need to be re-examined.

ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned

The Democratic fund-raising group is facing investigations from the Justice Department and congressional Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

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Regina Wallace-Jones, the chief executive of the liberal fund-raising organization ActBlue, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A 2023 letter from her to Congress later played a role in internal turmoil at ActBlue.

Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children

The European Union and national capitals are trying to make social media and algorithms less addictive and safer, especially for children.

© Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times

Stéphanie Mistre, whose daughter, Marie Le Tiec, ended her life in 2021 at age 15, has become an activist for children’s online safety.

Iran War Showcases Strength of South Korean Defense Sector

Missile interceptors made by the South Korean firm LIG Nex1 are said to be performing well, at a small fraction of the cost of U.S. interceptors.

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Cheongung-II, a South Korean air defense system, on display last year. The country’s defense companies are rapidly taking on new business, as U.S. firms struggle to keep pace with demand from multiple conflicts.

Iran War Showcases Strength of South Korean Defense Sector

Missile interceptors made by the South Korean firm LIG Nex1 are said to be performing well, at a small fraction of the cost of U.S. interceptors.

© Chris Jung/NurPhoto, via Associated Press

Cheongung-II, a South Korean air defense system, on display last year. The country’s defense companies are rapidly taking on new business, as U.S. firms struggle to keep pace with demand from multiple conflicts.

Texas Man Charged With Manslaughter in Connection With Cold Case

Prosecutors in Galveston County say that in the 1980s, a man killed a teenager and helped hide the remains of a woman, two of the dozens of bodies found on land known as the Texas Killing Fields.

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Tim Miller, father of the victim Laura Miller, hugging his wife, Georgeann, in 1998 as they looked at one of the billboards seeking information to help solve killings in the Houston area.

The Artemis II Toilet Had a Problem

The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (it seems to be fixed now).

© Cassandra Klos for The New York Times

An Orion training module, an exact replica of the spacecraft that will take astronauts around the moon, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. A compartment in the floor houses the only bathroom on board.

Senate and House Republicans Strike Deal to End DHS Shutdown

A bill to reopen the department, which the House G.O.P. rejected on Friday, could be approved as early as Thursday. It was a sharp turnaround by the lawmakers and President Trump.

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The resurrected plan would omit money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, the agencies carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Republicans said those agencies’ employees would continue to be paid out of funds that were pushed through Congress last year.

Judge Finds Border Officials Violated Previous Order on Warrantless Arrests

A federal judge in California ordered agents to thoroughly document any future stops in an area spanning 34 counties.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

A day laborer in Bakersfield, Calif., in January. A federal judge found on Wednesday that border officials appeared to have violated her earlier order when agents carried out an immigration sweep last year in a Home Depot parking lot in Sacramento.
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