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As President Trump aims to radically reshape and reduce the federal work force, a new organization is forming that aims to support Justice Department employees who say they are facing professional and ethical crises in dealing with the administration’s orders. The group, Justice Connection, is led by Stacey Young, a career federal prosecutor who stepped…
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When Newsday was founded, Long Island was a “bunch of small towns separated by trees,” according to Bob Keeler, a retired Newsday reporter who wrote a book about the paper. The newspaper, Mr. Keeler said, helped connect residents of Long Island to their communities and government. “It was an important institution in giving Long Island…
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In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers. In Ukraine, residents on the frontline of the war with Russia may be going without firewood…
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The Federal Reserve wants to see more evidence that inflation is easing before resuming interest rate cuts. The latest data presented a mixed picture. The central bank’s preferred inflation measure, released on Friday, climbed 2.6 percent in December from a year earlier, faster than its 2.4 percent rate in November and quicker than the central…
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After TWA Flight 800 crashed in New York in 1996, President Bill Clinton asked “every American not to jump to conclusions” about what brought it down and declared it time “to pull together and work together.” Five years later, when American Airlines Flight 587 fell out of the sky, President George W. Bush predicted that…
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Hamas on Friday announced the names of three hostages — including an American citizen — whom it said it would release this weekend as part of its cease-fire with Israel to end the war in Gaza, an agreement that has now held for nearly two weeks. Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the group’s armed wing,…
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The authorities in Norway have seized a Russian-crewed ship that is suspected of damaging an undersea cable in an act of sabotage in the Baltic Sea, the Norwegian police said on Friday. They were acting on a request from the Latvian authorities and on an order issued in Norwegian courts, the police said in a…
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President Trump has promised to impose 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico starting on Saturday, a vow that’s roiling the foreign exchange market. The Times’s Peter S. Goodman, who travels the world reporting on the intersection of economics and geopolitics, breaks down where Trump’s unconventional tariff strategy has left companies scrambling to…
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Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning. In a month, they have routed Congo’s underequipped army several times and caused more than half a million people to flee. On Monday, they captured Goma, a major Congolese city along the Rwandan border.…