A federal judge required the president to seek lawmakers’ input and pursue traditional approvals before proceeding with the $400 million replacement for the East Wing.

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President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.

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President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.

Thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded for more than a month in waters surrounded by a conflict zone because of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

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A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer aliens in 1980s New York, helping to reshape independent filmmaking in America.

For the second time in recent days, President Trump declared that one of the key objectives of the war had been accomplished.

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Conservatives had expected a victory in the case after the I.R.S. agreed to a settlement that allowed churches to voice support for candidates.

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Election experts and Democratic officials called the order legally invalid, and Arizona and Oregon pledged to immediately challenge it in court.

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Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

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Officials at the department and the White House are in the middle of a messy and complicated debate over how to respond to President Trump’s lawsuit demanding $10 billion from the I.R.S.

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After resisting calls for public hearings for weeks, House Republicans have called the secretary of defense to testify at a budget hearing in late April for the first time since the attacks on Iran began.

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Members of the United Nations Security Council condemned deadly attacks on U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon and called for de-escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

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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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At least 120,000 law enforcement officers who work for the agency have continued to collect paychecks throughout the funding lapse. But tens of thousands of workers have gone without pay.

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Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

Why none of America’s faiths have taken mainline Protestantism’s place.

Despite once being valued at $4 billion, the company that made sneakers from Merino wool struggled to capture a wide customer base and turn a profit.

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The influx of fans during this month’s college basketball tournament is a welcome lift to the city’s casinos and hotels after a dismal 2025, when the number of visitors fell 7.5 percent.

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Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5336. As usual it doesn’t release information about what security issues this update might address.

This version adds two new rules for MACOS.WANNABEWALLABY.IMA and MACOS.WANNABEWALLABY.STA, amends rules for MACOS.TIMELYTURTLE.DYHEOC, MACOS.SOMA.MAENA, and MACOS.SOMA.MAENB, and changes some rule UUIDs. In the Osascript rules in XPScripts.yr, it amends the rule for MACOS.OSASCRIPT.SYPR.

You can check whether this update has been installed by opening System Information via About This Mac, and selecting the Installations item under Software.

A full listing of security data file versions is given by SilentKnight and SystHist for El Capitan to Tahoe available from their product page. If your Mac hasn’t yet installed this update, you can force it using SilentKnight or at the command line.

If you want to install this as a named update in SilentKnight, its label is XProtectPlistConfigData_10_15-5336

Sequoia and Tahoe systems only

This update hasn’t yet been released for Sequoia and Tahoe via iCloud. If you want to check it manually, use the Terminal command
sudo xprotect check
then enter your admin password. If that returns version 5336 but your Mac still reports an older version is installed, you should be able to force the update using
sudo xprotect update

The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used.

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After lawmakers left Washington for a two-week spring break with the Department of Homeland Security shut down, the Hollywood tabloid began publishing photographs of them living it up around the country.

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Investors weighed the news that the owner of a Kuwaiti tanker loaded with oil said it had been hit in an Iranian attack near Dubai.

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The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.

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The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of many essential goods.

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President Trump’s latest outbursts followed reports that European countries were imposing more restrictions on American aircraft in their airspace.

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Readers criticize President Trump over his bellicose statements on Iran. Also: Education for every child, citizen or not; the cost of war.

Michael Haskell, 17, set out to make some money from his locker dives. He ended up learning about life.

A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar.

The peptides, which are increasingly marketed as providing longevity and health benefits, were removed in 2023 from the agency’s list of products that compounding pharmacies can sell.

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