| Venezuelan Lawmakers Approve Sweeping Overhaul of Oil Sector
- Bowing to Trump administration pressure, the new legislation improves conditions for foreign oil companies and opens the way to slash the taxes they pay.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:59:58 +0000
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| Man Accused of Squirting Ilhan Omar with Vinegar Is Charged With Assault
- Ms. Omar was sprayed with liquid from a syringe as she spoke at a town hall and called for the resignation of Kristi Noem, who leads the Homeland Security Department.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:58:32 +0000
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| The Polls Are Clear. Americans Don’t Want This.
- There is rising anxiety among Americans that the presence of an armed federal force in cities is actively making life less safe for people who live there.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:57:53 +0000
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| Murdoch and News Corp Take on the West Coast with The California Post
- The expansion of the Murdoch tabloid from its New York roots to the West Coast is the latest sign of the outlet’s national ambitions.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:47:19 +0000
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| How Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Have Been Debunked Again and Again
- The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:20:29 +0000
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| One Solution for Too Many A’s? Harvard Considers Giving A-Pluses
- Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:04:39 +0000
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| Pizza Cutter and a Fork: A Bizarre Bid to Break Mangione Out of Jail
- Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail complex in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione was being held.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:01:03 +0000
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| Police File Hate Crime Charges After Chabad Ramming in Brooklyn
- The police arrested the man, Dan Sohail, after a vehicle was rammed into the Brooklyn headquarters of the Hasidic Jewish organization. The man’s father said in an interview that his son did not hate Jewish people.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:54:18 +0000
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| Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE
- Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:27:50 +0000
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| Canada Signs Auto Deal With South Korea, Moving Further from the U.S.
- The agreement, while scarce on details, is the latest step by Prime Minister Mark Carney to reduce Canada’s reliance on trade with the U.S.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:10:36 +0000
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| Girls Sue Saint Ann’s School and Former Teacher Over Sex Crimes
- Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School who pleaded guilty to a felony charge last year, is accused in the lawsuit of soliciting naked photos of students and sharing them online.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:08:24 +0000
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| Genes May Control Your Longevity, However Healthily You Live
- A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:54:37 +0000
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| OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion
- OpenAI’s discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:53:15 +0000
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| Costco Is Sued Over Preservatives in Its $5 Rotisserie Chickens
- A proposed class-action lawsuit claims Costco was misleading customers and engaging in false advertising when it described the chicken as having no preservatives.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:45:03 +0000
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| Appeals Court Upholds TPS Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.
- The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations. About 600,000 are from Venezuela.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:18:59 +0000
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| How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
- Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:08:54 +0000
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| U.S. Trade Deficit Widens Despite Trump’s Tariffs
- The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:52:52 +0000
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| Former Deputy Sean Grayson Sentenced to 20 Years in Sonya Massey Shooting
- The deputy, Sean Grayson, was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Ms. Massey in 2024 at her home in Springfield, Ill., after she had called 911.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:41:09 +0000
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| Trump Says He Only Appeared to Nod Off in Last Cabinet Meeting Because It Was ‘Boring’
- Mr. Trump’s allies have strenuously insisted that he was alert and attentive at the meeting last month. The president said he had only closed his eyes.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:18:23 +0000
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| Winter Storm Forecast to Bring Deep Snow to the Carolinas and Virginia
- Up to a foot is possible this weekend in parts of the Southeast and on Cape Cod, with smaller amounts expected for much of the East Coast.
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:59:45 +0000
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