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Pentagon Lifts Trump-Era Ban on Release of Guantánamo Prisoners’ Art
The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case.
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Diving Into Octavia Butler’s World in Southern California
A tour of the places that shaped the science fiction writer.
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3 Special Elections Will Determine Control of the Pennsylvania House
Democrats have a good chance of winning a majority in the chamber after a month in which three vacancies have…
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Biden to Lay Down Economic Challenge to House Republicans
In his first State of the Union address since the G.O.P. took the lower chamber, the president will call for…
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Caught in G.O.P.’s Cross Hairs, Mayorkas Faces Political Showdown Over Border Crisis
WASHINGTON — Shortly before the midterm elections, when Alejandro N. Mayorkas was hosting a routine town hall with senior staff…
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Club for Growth Distances Itself Further From Trump
The anti-tax group has invited six possible presidential candidates to its donor retreat in Florida, and a notable name was…
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Previous Chinese Balloon Incursions Initially Went Undetected
Some earlier incidents had been classified as unexplained phenomena and handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating…
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Biden’s State of the Union Prep: No Acronyms and Tricks to Conquer a Stutter
Aides describe a process in which the president spends weeks reading drafts aloud, rejecting anything that smacks of Washington-speak.
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Amid Criticism, Elite Crime Teams Dwindled. Then Cities Brought Them Back.
The Scorpion police team whose officers are charged in the death of Tyre Nichols has been disbanded. But Memphis wasn’t…
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Education Issues Vault to Top of the G.O.P.’s Presidential Race
Donald Trump and possible rivals, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, are making appeals to conservative voters on race and gender issues,…