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Bird flu is striking chickens across the country, causing shortages and pushing up prices at retailers and restaurants. Last week, one of the nation’s largest egg producers said that hens at one of its Indiana farms had tested positive for avian influenza. Researchers have stressed that bird flu still poses a minimal risk to the…
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A gunman killed one person and injured five others on Tuesday evening at a cosmetics warehouse in suburban Columbus, Ohio, prompting more than 100 people inside to flee, the authorities said. The police were working to detain the shooter early Wednesday, Greg Jones, the police chief in the suburb of New Albany, told reporters. He…
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President Trump said Tuesday that the United States should take over Gaza and forcibly relocate two million Palestinians to other countries, describing his plan as a humanitarian effort to provide a “beautiful” new home for people displaced by a devastating war. The proposal, delivered during a news conference at the White House with Prime Minister…
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A man who pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges nine years ago after being accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate was sentenced on Tuesday to 44 years in prison. Prosecutors said that the man, Minh Quang Pham, planned the bombing after having received…
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Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its “American Dynamism” team. Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests,…
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Donald J. Trump’s return to power as president has bolstered right-wing lawmakers in Israel and the United States who support Israeli annexation of the West Bank, an occupied territory long seen by Palestinians and the international community as part of an eventual Palestinian state. On Friday, Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills…
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President Trump declared today that Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have “no alternative” but to leave the enclave because of the devastation wrought there by Israel in its war with Hamas. Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should take in the Palestinians. “I don’t know how they could want to stay,” the president said.…
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The Pacific Palisades — the Los Angeles community where more than 6,800 structures were destroyed and nearly 1,000 were damaged in the California wildfires — is among the wealthiest enclaves in the United States. The average household income is $375,000, three times the city average, and the typical home is worth $3.7 million. The community…
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An art collector is suing David Geffen for the return of a valuable Giacometti sculpture that the collector says was sold without his knowledge by his art adviser as part of an elaborate fraud. In the court papers filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, Justin Sun, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur and art collector,…
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Years before the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a long-fought lawsuit seeking reparations to compensate the last two centenarian survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the lead lawyer and a team were already working on a larger plan to repair century-old harms. On Tuesday, Damario Solomon-Simmons unveiled Project Greenwood, a sweeping plan to restore the city’s…