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Backdoor Funding of Homeland Security Agency Could Weaken Congress Anew

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Carl Hulse
An emerging Republican plan to skirt a Democratic filibuster and fund an entire department without congressional appropriations would be the latest example of surrendering power to the White House.

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Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis in early January. Using the complex budget process known as reconciliation to fund the entire Homeland Security Department, as Republicans are suggesting, would be a significant departure from traditional congressional practice.

At the National Archives, the Declaration Gets More Company

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Jennifer Schuessler
The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years.

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Visitors looked at the original copy of the 19th Amendment this week. The document was recently added to the permanent display in the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington.

Gavin Newsom Suggests His Conservative Critics Are Gay in Online Insults Criticized as Homophobic

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Tim Balk
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aides said that their online insults were meant to ridicule figures on the right. But some critics say they are homophobic.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is attracting criticism for social media posts taunting his opponents by suggesting they are gay.

Trump Seeks to Redefine ‘Regime Change’ in Iran War

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Edward Wong
President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his news conference on Tuesday that “this new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.”

Four Tied to N.Y.C. Shelter Contractor Are Charged in Corruption Inquiry

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William K. Rashbaum and Dana Rubinstein
The arrests were part of an investigation that is also examining the conduct of a city councilwoman, her sister and the Brooklyn Democratic leader’s husband.

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Councilwoman Farah Louis is part of the focus of a federal inquiry but is not expected to be arrested on Tuesday, people familiar with the investigation said.

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers Near D.C. Military Base

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Kate Kelly， Eric Schmitt and Tyler Pager
Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology.

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The LOCUST, an anti-drone laser system that has been used recently along the border with Mexico, may be deployed in Washington to help protect the military base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reside.

Supreme Court Rejects Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

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Ann E. Marimow
The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under 18.

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Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor, at her office in Colorado Springs in September. Mrs. Chiles filed suit in 2022 over Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors.

Trump Faces a Decision on Whether to Start a Ground War in Iran

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David E. Sanger and Tyler Pager
The president wants a negotiation, but the Iranians say they are refusing until a cease-fire is declared. And while Marines and the 82nd Airborne Division offer new leverage, the risks escalate quickly.

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President Trump and his tight circle of close aides have made opening the Strait of Hormuz a new, and nonnegotiable, issue.

Europe Has a ‘Guns vs. Butter’ Problem. War in Iran Makes It Worse.

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Jim Tankersley and Amanda Taub
After decades of prioritizing domestic over military spending, the continent’s leaders are trying to pivot. That is straining national budgets and could anger voters.

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A weapons factory in Herstal, Belgium, this year. Most European countries have realized that they need to spend a lot more on guns to reduce their military dependence on the United States.

Trump Faces a Decision on Whether to Start a Ground War in Iran

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David E. Sanger and Tyler Pager
The president wants a negotiation, but the Iranians say they are refusing until a cease-fire is declared. And while Marines and the 82nd Airborne Division offer new leverage, the risks escalate quickly.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

President Trump and his tight circle of close aides have made opening the Strait of Hormuz a new, and nonnegotiable, issue.
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