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Today — 20 December 2025Main stream

How the T.S.A. Is Helping ICE

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By: Hamed Aleaziz， Melanie Bencosme， June Kim， Pierre Kattar and Whitney Shefte
20 December 2025 at 04:18
In a previously undisclosed partnership, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are sharing data to identify passengers on upcoming flights whom ICE can arrest. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz, who learned of this partnership, describes what to know about it and the ICE arrests that have followed.

Emily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland

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By: Adam Nossiter
20 December 2025 at 06:46
Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.

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Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik in Stamford, Conn., in 2003. For 25 years she presided over the Fellowship for Jewish Learning, a congregation there.

Suspected Killer of M.I.T. Professor Studied With Victim, Graduating Top of Their Class

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By: Azam Ahmed， Dana Goldstein and Patricia Mazzei
20 December 2025 at 07:37
The parents of the suspect in the Brown and M.I.T. killings had not seen or heard from him since he left Portugal to enroll at a graduate program at Brown more than two decades ago.

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Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno Loureiro, the M.I.T. professor he is accused of killing, were classmates at the University of Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico from 1995 to 2000.

Trump Announces Pricing Deals With Nine Drugmakers

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By: Rebecca Robbins and Margot Sanger-Katz
20 December 2025 at 06:33
The companies were the latest to agree to sell drugs to Medicaid and directly to consumers at discounted prices. President Trump said he would soon begin similar negotiations with health insurers.

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The Trump administration plans to create TrumpRx.gov, which will direct patients to the manufacturers’ websites. Officials said the site would be operational next month.
Yesterday — 19 December 2025Main stream

Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria

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By: Abdi Latif Dahir and Reham Mourshed
19 December 2025 at 20:02
The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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A heavily damaged neighborhood in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, Syria, in August. The lifting of U.S. sanctions will bolster Syria’s new government’s efforts to rebuild a nation in ruins.

Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Abdi Latif Dahir and Reham Mourshed
19 December 2025 at 20:02
The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

© Nicole Tung for The New York Times

A heavily damaged neighborhood in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, Syria, in August. The lifting of U.S. sanctions will bolster Syria’s new government’s efforts to rebuild a nation in ruins.

U.S. Will Pay $450,000 to Wildfire Fighters With Cancer

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By: Hannah Dreier
19 December 2025 at 18:03
They will be eligible for a one-time payment as well as college tuition for their children. The effort is part of a legislative push to address the dangers of working in toxic smoke.

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Members of a wildfire crew last August in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.

How a Reddit Post Helped the Police Identify a Suspect in the Brown University Shooting

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By: Mark Arsenault， Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
20 December 2025 at 09:00
A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect not only in the campus shooting but also in the murder of an M.I.T. professor.

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A vehicle was loaded onto a tow truck outside the storage facility in Salem, N.H., where the Brown University shooting suspect’s body was found on Thursday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Iran’s President Says He Can’t Make ‘Miracles’ to Solve the Country’s Woes

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By: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar
19 December 2025 at 03:25
Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.

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President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran attending a protest in Tehran in June after the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.

Trump Finds That Retribution Isn’t Always So Easy

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By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jonah E. Bromwich
18 December 2025 at 07:00
In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.

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Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Sets Off a Nationalist Reaction

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By: Simon Romero
18 December 2025 at 07:25
President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.

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Derricks in the Maracaibo oil fields of Venezuela in the early 20th century. American oil companies invested millions of dollars in the region, generating profits that flowed to the United States, rather than Venezuela.
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