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‘This Storm Has Broken People’: After Beryl, Some Consider Leaving
Devastating, back-to-back power outages have led some in Houston to consider whether they want to stay in the city they love.
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How J.D. Vance Won Over Donald Trump
The meeting got off to a bad start. J.D. Vance walked into Donald J. Trump’s office at Mar-a-Lago on a warm winter afternoon in February 2021. The former president had a thick stack of papers on his desk: printouts of Mr. Vance’s copious broadsides ...
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Newyork
Republican Convention: Best and Worst Moments From Night 1
Welcome to Opinion’s commentary for Night 1 of the Republican National Convention. In this special feature, Times Opinion writers rate the evening on a scale of 0 to 10: 0 means the night was a disaster for Donald Trump and his party; 10 means it ...
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Newyork
What Polls Tell Us About the State of the 2024 Race
As Republicans head into the second day of their convention in Milwaukee, they are energized. They feel jubilant about their chances of winning in November and furious about the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump — an event many of ...
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Newyork
There’s Little to Stop Trump Shooting Conspiracies From Spreading
It took minutes after the shooting at Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday for misinformation to begin circulating on social media. Maybe the shooter was an Italian soccer commentator. Perhaps Mr. Trump was shot in the chest. The platform X ...
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Newyork
If Your Electric Meter Is So Smart, Why Is the Power Grid So Dumb?
The meter at your home or apartment recording your electricity consumption is one of the portals to a clean energy future — and to consumers spending considerably less on their power bills. But to get to that future, those meters must be able to ...
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World
The End of a Strategic Deployment
As the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sailed toward Norfolk Harbor, a small cargo plane landed on the flight deck amid swirling wind and rain. After the plane jerked to a halt, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, and top Navy ...
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World
She Didn’t Like His Song, So She Tried to Eat Him
It’s not easy being green, golden and male, according to a researcher’s observation of attempted frog cannibalism in Australia.
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World
A Missy Elliott Song Travels to Venus at the Speed of Light
NASA sent the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” from a radio dish in California last week. It took 14 minutes to travel the 158 million miles.
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World
‘Bright Objects’ Brings Together a Cult, a Comet and a Widow Out for Justice
Set among the fevered residents of a remote Australian town, Ruby Todd’s debut novel considers how grief can draw people to extreme beliefs.