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US
Man Fatally Shot by Visiting Police Officers Near R.N.C., Official Says
The officers were part of a contingent of 4,500 law enforcement officials who came to Milwaukee to assist local police with the convention.
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World
Doctors Without Borders closes its last facility in north Gaza, and other news.
Doctors Without Borders temporarily closed its last health facility in north Gaza after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order for parts of Gaza City and the area came under heavy fire, the organization said on Wednesday evening. It said the ...
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World
As Violence Surges, Can Pakistan Protect Its Chinese Projects?
China has invested billions in megaprojects across Pakistan. But a resurgence in militant violence is threatening to derail badly needed investment.
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World
Cigarette Smuggling in Gaza Turns Aid Trucks Into Targets
A new problem is bedeviling humanitarian aid convoys attempting to deliver relief to hungry Gazans: attacks by organized crowds seeking not the flour and medicine that trucks are carrying, but cigarettes smuggled inside the shipments. In tightly ...
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Books
At Avignon Festival, Theater’s World Gets Wider
Under its new director, the event is shining a spotlight on countries and performers rarely represented on the biggest European stages.
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Newyork
What Happened to the Originalism of the Originalists?
When I read the majority opinion on Monday in Trump v. United States, which held that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for official acts within their “conclusive and preclusive” constitutional authority and presumptive immunity for all other ...
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Newyork
Two Teenagers Drown Off Brooklyn Beach
The girls, ages 17 and 18, went into the water near the Coney Island boardwalk as thunderstorms rolled in. It was the second pair of drownings off city beaches in two weeks.
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World
Israel Kills a Top Commander of Hezbollah, Which Replies With a Rocket Barrage
The escalation in violence across the border of Israel and Lebanon came as Western diplomats tried to head off a full-fledged war there.
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World
The U.S. imposes new sanctions to cut off funding to Iran-backed militant groups.
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on nearly 50 entities and people that it said were part of an Iranian operation to direct billions of dollars toward terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. “The United ...
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World
An Israeli panel warns Netanyahu over corruption case, and other news.
An Israeli government panel issued warnings to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and four others on Monday as part of a yearslong inquiry into a multibillion-dollar purchase of submarines and missile boats from Germany, an episode regarded as the ...