Supreme Court Seems Poised to Limit Trump Election Case After Immunity Hearing
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Supreme Court Seems Poised to Limit Trump Election Case After Immunity Hearing

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready on Thursday to rule that former presidents have some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution, a move that could further delay the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. Such a ruling…

Harvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned by N.Y. Court of Appeals
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Harvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned by N.Y. Court of Appeals

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned the felony sex crimes conviction of the notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, a staggering reversal of a bedrock case in the #MeToo era that prompted countless victims of sexual harassment and assault to come forward as accusers. In a bitterly contested 4-to-3 decision,…

Arizona Republicans Who Supported Repealing an Abortion Ban Face Blowback
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Arizona Republicans Who Supported Repealing an Abortion Ban Face Blowback

State Representative Matt Gress, a Republican in a moderate slice of Phoenix, was in line at his neighborhood coffee shop on Thursday when a customer stopped and thanked him for voting to repeal an 1864 law that bans abortion in Arizona. “I know you’re taking some heat,” he told Mr….

One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu
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One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu

Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday. Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with…

5 Takeaways from David Pecker’s Testimony in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial
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5 Takeaways from David Pecker’s Testimony in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

The criminal trial of Donald Trump featured vivid testimony on Thursday about a plot to protect his first presidential campaign and the beginnings of a tough cross-examination of the prosecution’s initial witness, David Pecker. In his third day of testimony, Mr. Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, described…

Opinion | America Is Writing Checks That Mere Optimism Won’t Cover
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Opinion | America Is Writing Checks That Mere Optimism Won’t Cover

Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of money, sometimes in response to national emergencies and sometimes to do the things people thought were worth doing. We gave ourselves permission to incur all this debt because interest rates…

Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Overturned by NY Appeals Court: Key Takeaways
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Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Overturned by NY Appeals Court: Key Takeaways

In a 4-to-3 decision on Thursday, New York’s highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, a reversal that horrified and dismayed many of the women whose decision to speak out against Mr. Weinstein, a prominent Hollywood producer, accelerated the #MeToo movement. The New York Court…

José Andrés Eulogizes 7 World Central Kitchen Workers Killed in Gaza
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José Andrés Eulogizes 7 World Central Kitchen Workers Killed in Gaza

A stone pulpit in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is no place the chef José Andrés expected to be when he created the food charity World Central Kitchen nearly 15 years ago. But on Thursday he stood there, eulogizing seven of the organization’s workers who were killed in the…