| Astronaut James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97
- He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:11:22 +0000
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| Texas Attorney General Moves to Oust Democrats From Office Over Walkout
- Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state’s Supreme Court to remove 13 of them from their seats.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:06:08 +0000
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| Trump Says He Will Meet With Putin in Alaska Next Week
- Mr. Trump also suggested that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would include “some swapping of territories,” signaling that the U.S. may join Russia in trying to compel Ukraine to cede land.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:00:08 +0000
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| Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country
- The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:58:42 +0000
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| Firefighters Work to Contain Wildfire Northwest of L.A.
- The blaze, called the Canyon fire, began early Thursday afternoon near Lake Piru, a reservoir about 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:58:31 +0000
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| Active Shooter Is Reported at Emory University in Atlanta
- The Atlanta Police Department said one officer had been injured in the shooting. Pictures showed gunfire had struck windows at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:54:39 +0000
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| What Putin Hopes to Gain From a Summit With Trump
- The American leader has agreed to a meeting with the Russian president in Alaska next Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:50:50 +0000
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| William H. Webster, Who Ran Both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., Dies at 101
- A former federal judge, he first came to the F.B.I. just as two of the worst spies in American history were running rampant.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:46:28 +0000
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| Trump Is Removing Billy Long as the I.R.S. Head 2 Months After He Was Confirmed
- Billy Long, a former Republican congressman, will no longer serve as the tax agency’s head. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will oversee the agency as acting commissioner.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:41:46 +0000
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| Suspect in Deadly Montana Bar Shooting Is Captured, Official Says
- An Army veteran wanted in connection with the killing of four people at a bar in the town of Anaconda was taken into custody on Friday after an eight-day manhunt.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:25:13 +0000
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| Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
- Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:17:34 +0000
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| War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
- Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:03:23 +0000
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| Trump Just Shrugs as Kennedy Undermines His Vaccine Legacy
- President Trump’s laissez-faire approach is notable, given that the development of the Covid vaccine was seen as one of his first term’s most notable achievements.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:31:57 +0000
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| Trump Directed the Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
- Also, Israel said it was preparing to take control of Gaza City. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:05:48 +0000
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| The Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6
- The National Museum of American History removed some details of the charges President Trump faced when it replaced a display about his two impeachments.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:54:42 +0000
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| Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
- The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:36:15 +0000
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| Vance and Lammy Mix Fishing and Foreign Policy at UK Estate
- JD Vance and his family are spending two nights at the country residence of the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, with whom he has a somewhat unlikely friendship.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:24:05 +0000
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| Possible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope
- Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system closest to our own.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:50:55 +0000
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| Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding
- The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:32:19 +0000
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| India’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump
- The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:01:10 +0000
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