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In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members
About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.
By Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Divulge Names of Those Who Set Up $1.8 Billion Fund
The plan to create a fund that could have funneled taxpayer money to the president’s allies drew repeated scrutiny, including a rare rebuke from Senate Republicans.
By Alan Feuer
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Trump’s Latest Clemency Grants Benefit Drug Offenders, Union Boss
The president issued pardons or commutations to 30 people on Thursday, continuing his unorthodox and unpredictable use of clemency power.
By Kenneth P. Vogel
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Trump Plans to Use Qatari Jet for Another Overseas Flight Despite Security Concerns
The president intends to travel to Ireland on the plane, the first time he will have used it overseas since questions were raised about its defensive capabilities.
By Maggie Haberman
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In Complex Cases, Consensus Can Be Hard to Reach
Hung juries are not common, but the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy was emotionally wrenching and uniquely complicated.
By Jacey Fortin
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Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Trial Ended With a Hung Jury. What Now?
Ms. Clancy still faces murder charges for killing her three children. She is likely to remain in a hospital, and prosecutors may decide to retry her.
By Jacey Fortin, Maia Spoto and Jenna Russell
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Judge Declares a Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Case
Also, regulators scrutinize steering-wheel-free cars. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
By Matthew Cullen
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Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in TV Ad Fight
Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms.
By Abbie VanSickle
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Judge Once Again Blocks Mail-In Ballot Rules
The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.
By Zach Montague
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A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.
New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.
By Julian E. Barnes and Dustin Volz
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How the Stars of ‘Practical Magic 2’ Reclaimed Their Power
Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Maisie Williams on the unlikely sequel, embracing their witchiness and their hopes for a third film.
By Ashley Spencer
world
German Far-Right Surges, in Threat to Postwar Taboo on Extremists in Power
Sunday’s vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt could produce the strongest showing in the history of the Alternative for Germany party, and potentially a far-right government in the statehouse.
By Jim Tankersley, Tatiana Firsova and Christopher F. Schuetze
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Gloria Steinem Stayed Positive, Even as the Manosphere Took Hold
The feminist icon thought many women would carry on her legacy. But at an unsteady time for feminism, how will the movement carry on?
By Julie Bosman and Ruth Graham
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‘It Was Insulting’: When Steinem Said Young Women Backed Sanders to Chase Men
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Gloria Steinem was asked about the young women supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton. Her answer created a brief hullabaloo.
By Michael Kruse
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Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says
The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.”
By Teddy Rosenbluth
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C.D.C. Says No Deaths This Year Attributed to Measles
The agency’s weekly update escalates a political fight after Pennsylvania said two deaths had been caused by the virus.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
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Kennedy Hires Covid Vaccine Skeptic to Look at Dubious Claims of Military Deaths
In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Jan Hoffman
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Influencers, Noise and Weed: Has the U.S. Open Become a ‘Zoo’?
As the Open grows ever more popular, tennis fans wonder if “the people’s tournament” has become too rowdy.
By David Waldstein
science
Another Heart Drug Fails, Shocking Cardiologists
Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease.
By Gina Kolata
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I Understand Why a Jury Could Not Convict Lindsay Clancy
Postpartum psychosis is misunderstood and a poor fit for the justice system.
By Jessica Grose
opinion
Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.
By Hans Kundnani
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Families Turn to Symbolic Cremation After Nepal Floods
Thousands are missing, and some families have lost hope of recovering their bodies. To carry out his sacred duty, a son lights the funeral pyre for a straw effigy of his father.
By Mujib Mashal and Binod Ghimire