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Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed by Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett

Xi Presses Trump on Taiwan as They Agree to Meet in China in April by Ana Swanson, Alan Rappeport and Edward Wong

Trump Is Considering Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies by Luke Broadwater, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break by Ellen Barry

‘Queen of Versailles’ to Close as New Broadway Musicals Struggle by Michael Paulson

A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season by Natallie Rocha and Kailyn Rhone

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Plus, a new crash-test dummy.

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U.S. and Ukraine Expected to Press on With Peace Plan Talks by Cassandra Vinograd

Mamdani and Trump Tamp Down Fears Over National Guard in New York City by Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Back Home, Voters Stand by Marjorie Taylor Greene After She Stood Up to Trump by Rick Rojas and Sean Keenan

Denmark Offers Lessons as Europe Toughens Up on Immigration by Jeanna Smialek and Amelia Nierenberg

U.S. Introduces New Female Crash-Test Dummy Standards by Adeel Hassan

Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match by Neil Vigdor

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Trump and Mamdani Are Meeting for the First Time. Will They Play Nice? by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays

Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death,’ Over Message to the Military by Shawn McCreesh

Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling by Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents by John Ismay and Minho Kim

Zelensky Says Ukraine Ready to ‘Honestly’ Engage With U.S. Peace Plan by Andrew E. Kramer and Lara Jakes

Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Submit Warner Bros. Discovery Bids by Benjamin Mullin, Lauren Hirsch and Nicole Sperling

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Plus, a surge in meat allergies caused by ticks. 

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Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 65% to $31.9 Billion. Is It Enough for Wall Street? by Tripp Mickle

Holiday Hiring Slows, Frustrating Job Seekers by Kailyn Rhone

Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment by Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Has Big Plans, but His Giant Fund Is Low on Cash by Rob Copeland and Vivian Nereim

Lawrence Summers Has Come Back From Scandals. Will This Be His Last? by Mark Arsenault

After a Mysterious Death, a Family’s Quest for Answers Leads to a Tick by Joseph Goldstein

Americans Have Lost Billions to Online Scams. How Is That Possible? by Francesca Regalado

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Plus, young men are flocking to the Orthodox Church. 

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Congress Overwhelmingly Approves Releasing Epstein Files by Annie Karni

Trump Lauds Saudi Prince in Lavish Visit, Brushing Off Journalist’s Killing by Katie Rogers

Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders by Greg Jaffe

Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs by Jan Hoffman

Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People by Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados

Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts by Ruth Graham

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Plus, a vote on the Epstein files.

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Too Powerful to Ignore, Saudi Prince Returns to Washington’s Embrace by Vivian Nereim and Ismaeel Naar

Trump Says U.S. Will Sell F-35s to Saudis, Despite Pentagon Concerns by Karoun Demirjian

House Is Expected to Vote on Tuesday to Release Epstein Files by Annie Karni

Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files, With or Without Congress by Luke Broadwater

In Major Breakthrough, U.N. Security Council Adopts U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza by Farnaz Fassihi

Inside the American-Run Base Helping Plan the Future of Gaza by Aaron Boxerman, Adam Rasgon, Natan Odenheimer and David M. Halbfinger

After Hundreds of Gazans Arrive on Mystery Flights, South Africa Asks How by John Eligon and Zimasa Matiwane

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation by Dan Fagin

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Plus, Hollywood’s star-studded movies are tanking. 

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Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files by Ashley Ahn

Border Patrol Fans Out Across Charlotte, N.C., Arresting 81 People on First Day by Eduardo Medina and Sonia A. Rao

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations by Nicholas Nehamas, Michael H. Keller, Alexandra Berzon, Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

U.S. Airport Restrictions to End Monday by Karoun Demirjian

White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights by Christine Chung

How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims by Cameron Fozi, Chloe Rosenberg and Reeno Hashimoto

25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows by Brooks Barnes

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Federal Agencies Return to Work After Longest Shutdown in History by Eileen Sullivan

U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt

Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels by Charlie Savage and Julian E. Barnes

Swalwell Denies Allegations of Fraud and Says Trump is Targeting Him by John Yoon

Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out by Nick Corasaniti

An Escape From India’s Air Pollution for Those Who Can Afford It by Alex Travelli

Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX’s Feat by Kenneth Chang

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Plus, the penny’s last day.

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Government Reopens as Trump Signs Bill to End Nation’s Longest Shutdown by Catie Edmondson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

What Newly Released Emails Tell Us About Epstein and Trump by Steve Eder and Nicholas Confessore

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants by Jason DeParle

The Penny Dies at 232 by Victor Mather

William Rataczak, Co-Pilot of Flight Hijacked by D.B. Cooper, Dies at 86 by Michael S. Rosenwald

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Plus, why private air travel is booming. 

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Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip by Somini Sengupta

A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics by Somini Sengupta and Brad Plumer

Trump Administration Plans to Send Border Patrol to Charlotte and New Orleans by Dana Goldstein and Hamed Aleaziz

Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela by Eric Schmitt

Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees by Edward Wong

House Returns After Long Recess to Take Up Bill to End Shutdown by Michael Gold

Who Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private by Christine Chung

Israel Arrests 4 After Jewish Extremist Attack in Occupied West Bank by Aaron Boxerman

The Volunteer Buglers Giving 24-Note Salutes by Danny Freedman

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