Friday, January 31, 2025

Belgium Forms a Government After 7 Months of Squabbling

The country’s tense negotiations hinged on taxing and social spending — and they highlight issues facing Europe, and Western democracies, as a whole.

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U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden

Democratic lawmakers had expressed concerns to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the rifles possibly going to settler militias or being misused by the police.

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Trump Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China Will Take Effect on Saturday

The White House press secretary said the president would move forward with levies on America’s largest trading partners, raising the prospect of a disruptive trade war.

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Friday Briefing: 67 Dead in Washington Air Collision

Plus, Beyoncé vs. Swift at the Grammys.

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Father Slays New York Girl, 14, in TikTok ‘Honor Killing’

After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents believed were immodest, the police said.

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Married Russian Figure-Skating Stars Are Among Victims of Plane Crash Near Washington, D.C.

A Boston skating club confirmed that Yevgeniya Shishkova, 52, and Vadim Naumov, 55, were on the plane that crashed after colliding with a military helicopter.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Thursday Briefing: Trump Reverses Spending Freeze

Plus, celebrating the Lunar New Year.

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Rebel Leader Who Overthrew al-Assad is Declared Syria’s President

The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a transitional period.

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Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship is ‘Fine.’

Three weeks after a rift, the head of the populist Reform U.K. party said Elon Musk remains open to a donation that could shake up British politics.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran President Who Fled to Nicaragua, Dies at 65

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

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Monday, January 27, 2025

François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 86

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the death of almost two million people.

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What’s Next in the Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations?

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked for hours toward their homes in northern Gaza on Monday, nearly 16 months after Israel launched an offensive there in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. The returnees confronted wastelands of rubble after the Israeli military destroyed entire neighborhoods and Hamas booby-trapped buildings. Adam Rasgon, a New York Times correspondent, explains why the road to permanent peace remains complicated and elusive despite significant progress in the temporary cease-fire.

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New Zealand Loosens Visitor Visas to Court Remote Workers

The country, which sank into a recession last year, is trying to entice highly skilled “digital nomads” to work in the island nation for up to nine months.

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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Who Is Arbel Yehud, the Israeli Hostage at the Center of a Cease-Fire Dispute?



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Monday Briefing: Fragile Israeli Cease-Fires

Plus, solving an art fraud scheme.

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Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.

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Saturday, January 25, 2025

New Leaders in Lebanon Face Test as Israel Is Poised to Keep Troops There

Any prolonged Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon could breathe new life into Hezbollah, challenging the political momentum of Lebanon’s new president and prime minister.

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As Hamas Releases More Israeli Hostages, It Puts on a Show of Force

The handover of four female Israeli soldiers by Hamas on Saturday came as Israel released 200 prisoners. But a dispute arose over the hostage release timetable.

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Mike Hynson, Surfing Star of ‘The Endless Summer,’ Dies at 82

The hit 1966 surfing documentary immortalized the maverick California wave rider as an archetype of the footloose rebel surfer.

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U.S. Halt to Foreign Aid Does Not Apply to Arms to Israel and Egypt

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s orders could force many groups working on global aid to stop their programs. And the White House has approved sending more 2,000-pound bombs to Israel.

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Here’s What We Know About the 4 Released Hostages

The young women were working as “spotters” for Israel’s army when they were abducted in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Friday, January 24, 2025

Myanmar Rebels Are Opening Colleges

As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their pursuit of a federal democracy.

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Israel Says UNRWA Has 6 Days to Halt Operations in East Jerusalem

The directive came in a letter to the U.N., after the Israeli Parliament banned the relief agency that has aided Palestinian refugees for decades.

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Arthur Blessitt, Who Carried a Cross Around the World, Dies at 84

A street preacher from Hollywood, he set out on a walk to New York City in 1969 with a 110-pound cross on his back. Then he kept going.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Friday Briefing: Trump Criticizes Europe

Plus, the Oscar nominations.

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What Prince Harry’s Settlement Means for Him and Britain’s Royal Family

Harry won an apology and damages from Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids. Could the lawsuit’s end also help heal the rift with his brother, William, and his father, King Charles III?

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Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right

But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Plus, predictions for today’s Oscar nominations.

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An Ancient Headless Statue Is Found Amid Trash in Greece

The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins.

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Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades documenting the ancient traditions of nomadic Bedouin tribes, creating a record of a vanishing culture.

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Ex-Executive Who Oversaw South Korean Airport Renovations Is Found Dead

Son Chang-wan was in office while works were undertaken at Muan International Airport. Last month, a plane crashed into a concrete barrier there, killing 179 people.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Wednesday Briefing: Trump Opponents Push Back

Plus, an interview with the Nobel laureate Han Kang.

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Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1

Marco Rubio told State Department employees that changes under President Trump “are not meant to be destructive, they’re not meant to be punitive.”

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Monday, January 20, 2025

Latin American Leaders Welcome and Warn Trump

Several chafed at his plans as President Trump enacted immigration measures affecting their countries and vowed to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

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Gaza Residents Return to Vast Destruction in Old Neighborhoods

Palestinians returning to parts of the enclave have been picking their way through vast piles of rubble and trying to salvage what they can.

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Tuesday Briefing: Trump Takes Office

Plus, exploring Indonesia’s spiritual hub.

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Trump Plans to Order U.S. Exit From World’s Main Climate Pact

The United States would be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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How Mexico Is Preparing for Tariffs Negotiations With Trump

President Claudia Sheinbaum is detaining more migrants, seizing more fentanyl and positioning her country as a key ally against China. But the U.S. stance has shifted, too.

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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Gazans and Israelis Dare to Hope as Cease-Fire Takes Hold

After the fighting paused, Hamas began to free some of its hostages, and Israel prepared to release Palestinian prisoners.

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Monday Briefing: A Gaza Cease-Fire Begins

Plus, how Oscar contenders are rethinking sex scenes.

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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Trump’s Return Has Unnerved World Leaders. But Not India.

An upward trajectory in relations is “almost inevitable,” the U.S. ambassador, Eric Garcetti, said in an interview before leaving his post.

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Italian Reporter’s Ordeal in Iranian Prison: ‘I Was Trapped in a Game’

Cecilia Sala found herself in the middle of Iran’s hostage diplomacy.

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What We Know About the Hostage Release

The first phase of the cease-fire deal calls for the release of 33 hostages, including women, children, men over 50 and sick and wounded people.

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Friday, January 17, 2025

Ahead of Trump Presidency, the Fed Quits Global Climate Network

Federal Reserve Bank officials said the decision to leave the network came after the group’s work had “increasingly broadened in scope.”

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On a Raid With Syria’s New Security Forces

After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, The New York Times joined a group of former rebel soldiers trying to enforce law and order in a country grappling with the ghosts of its past.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Friday Briefing: Cease-Fire Vote Delayed

Plus, remembering David Lynch.

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Blinken Insists Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Is on Track After Hecklers Disrupt News Conference

Two pro-Palestinian journalists were ejected from the news conference after accusing the secretary of state of enabling “genocide.” Blinken, despite reports of last-minute snags, said he was confident about the cease-fire deal for Gaza.

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U.K. Announces Rapid Review into Scale of Child Sexual Abuse by Grooming Gangs

Britain’s Labour government came under pressure to act after Elon Musk reignited a decade-old scandal involving child sexual abuse mainly by men of Pakistani heritage.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

How the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal United Teams Biden and Trump

Rarely if ever have representatives of current and new presidents of different parties worked together at such a high-stakes moment.

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Gaza Hostage Deal Could Come as Trump Takes Office, in Echoes of 1981

Dozens of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Wednesday Briefing: A Major U.S. Senate Hearing

Plus, mapping “The Lord of the Rings”

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Biden Will Remove Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

The decision is the latest in a series of conflicting U.S. approaches to Cuba by different administrations.

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Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40 Percent Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say

Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.

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Monday, January 13, 2025

Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business

The country’s prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

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Tuesday Briefing: Death Toll Rises in L.A. Fires

Plus, what’s going on with TV credits?

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Biden Aides Warned Putin as Russia’s Shadow War Threatened Air Disaster

The White House scrambled to get a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages on cargo planes.

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With South Korea in Crisis, Eight Justices Will Decide President’s Fate

The Constitutional Court, an arbiter in a polarized nation, is about to consider whether Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment for declaring martial law was justified.

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Monday Briefing

Here’s what you need to know.

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Druse Leader Aims to Secure Place for Syrian Minorities

Despite assurances from the rebels-turned-leaders, members of some religious groups worry what life will be like for them in a post-Assad Syria.

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Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.

Plus, how cured ham fixed an antique organ in France.

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Battling Militants Backed by Islamic State in Mozambique

For more than seven years, an insurgency backed by the Islamic State has raged across Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, completely upending life in this coastal province rich with natural resources. John Eligon, The New York Times Johannesburg bureau chief, traveled across the province to speak with people trying to rebuild their lives.

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Saturday, January 11, 2025

A French Cathedral Turned to Hams to Restore Its Organ

A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay for restorations.

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Sudan’s Military Recaptures Key City From Paramilitary Accused of Genocide

Celebrations erupted in military-controlled areas, stoking hopes the victory might be a turning point in Sudan’s ruinous civil war.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

ISIS Says It Inspired New Orleans Attack, but Doesn’t Claim Responsibility

The attacker who killed 14 pedestrians on Bourbon Street was “influenced by the discourse and messaging of the Islamic State,” the terrorist group said in a bulletin dated Thursday.

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Biden Officials Say the Truth About Havana Syndrome Is Still Unknown

The White House contradicts a new intelligence assessment on the mysterious ailments that diplomats and spies have reported for years.

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Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections Before Trump Takes Office

The move allows hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela to stay in the country temporarily.

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Friday Briefing: Racing to Control Los Angeles Fires

Plus, renovating a wrecked palazzo.

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Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Maria Corina Machado, Detained at Protest

Ms. Machado has garnered enormous support for her opposition to the country’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro.

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House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions

The action put the measure on track for likely enactment given strong support for it among Republicans, who now control the Senate, and President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Thursday Briefing: Los Angeles Battles Deadly Wildfires

Plus, how genetics factor into longevity.

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Saudi Arabia May Partner With UFC Owner TKO to Create Boxing League

A company owned by the country’s sovereign wealth fund is poised to team up with TKO, which owns Ultimate Fighting Championship, the kingdom’s latest foray into pro sports.

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

What Trudeau’s Resignation Means for Canada

By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberals time. But Canada will now face Donald Trump with a lame duck in charge.

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Wednesday Briefing: Meta Set to End Fact-Checking

Plus, 52 places to go this year

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Venezuela’s Opposition Candidate Says His Son-In-Law Was Kidnapped

Edmundo González, who is recognized by the United States as the president-elect of Venezuela, said his son-in-law was kidnapped by hooded men.

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Monday, January 6, 2025

Lead Poisoning May Have Made Ancient Romans a Bit Less Intelligent

Exposure to lead from mining probably lowered I.Q. levels in the empire, research has found. It might be the world’s first case of widespread industrial pollution.

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Pope Appoints Nun to Lead Vatican Department

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be alone at the top.

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Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden

The meeting was part of Mr. González’s international tour to drum up support for Venezuela’s opposition.

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Monday Briefing: How Trump Re-Wrote Jan. 6

Plus, the end of an era for Hong Kong’s cabbies

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In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

Elon Musk, the billionaire backer of Donald J. Trump, had been promoting Nigel Farage. But on Sunday Mr. Musk said Mr. Farage “doesn’t have what it takes.”

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On the Run, a Hit Man Gives One Last Confession

Edgar Matobato says he killed again and again for former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Now he’s trying to stay alive to testify.

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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era

A government push to modernize taxi services comes up against the habits of drivers known for driving fast and accepting only cash.

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A Frigid First: Chile’s President Visits Antarctica to Bolster Claims

Chile’s president traveled to the South Pole, the first visit of any sitting Latin American president, according to his office.

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Italy’s Prime Minister Visits Trump in Mar-a-Lago

Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, joins just a handful of other world leaders who have been to the president-elect’s Florida estate since his victory.

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Friday, January 3, 2025

Treasury Dept. Hits Chinese Tech Company With Sanctions After Breach

The agency imposed penalties on a company it blamed for supporting the Chinese hacking group Flax Typhoon in a 2022-23 infiltration.

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Britt Allcroft, Who Brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV, Dies at 81

She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural behemoth that spawned movies, merchandise and theme parks.

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

South Korean Officials Arrive at President Yoon’s Home, Seeking to Detain Him

The authorities are seeking to detain President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into a political crisis.

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Friday Briefing: F.B.I. Said the New Orleans Attacker Acted Alone

Plus, eat better in 2025.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

What to Know About ISIS Terror Attacks

The group whose flag was found after a New Orleans truck-ramming attack has never stopped orchestrating and inspiring acts of terror.

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Thursday Briefing: An Attack in New Orleans

Plus, fitness goals beyond weight loss.

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Why Did Ukraine Halt the Flow of Russia’s Natural Gas to Europe?

And why didn’t it cut off Russia’s natural gas earlier?

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Vehicle Ramming Attacks: Using Cars and Trucks as Weapons Has Become Common

A New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans killed at least 10 people.

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