Politics
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Newsom Asks Hollywood to Stop Filming in Conservative States
SACRAMENTO — Widening his attack on Republican states for their positions on guns, civil rights and abortion, Gov. Gavin Newsom…
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U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year
WASHINGTON — The shortage of vaccines to combat a fast-growing monkeypox outbreak was caused in part because the Department of…
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Jackie Walorski, Indiana Congresswoman, Is Killed in Car Crash
WASHINGTON — Representative Jackie Walorski, Republican of Indiana, was killed in a car accident in her district on Wednesday, according…
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Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
AUSTIN, Texas — In a brutal cross-examination on Wednesday in the trial of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a lawyer…
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As China Plans Drills Circling Taiwan, U.S. Officials Fear a Squeeze Play
WASHINGTON — For years the deliberate “strategic ambiguity” in Washington’s China policy has left unclear how the United States would…
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Switzerland, a leader in gold refining, bans Russian gold imports.
Switzerland on Wednesday banned imports of Russian gold and gold products, on the heels of similar moves by the European…
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The U.S. Senate is poised to vote to accept Sweden and Finland into NATO.
WASHINGTON — The Senate was expected to give final approval on Wednesday to a treaty that would expand NATO to…
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Welcomed by Taiwan, Pelosi Leaves Rising Tensions With China in Her Wake
After weeks of silence ahead of a high-stakes visit to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was anything but understated on Wednesday…
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Your Thursday Briefing: Tensions Rise as Pelosi Leaves Taiwan
We’re covering a severe drought in Mexico and China’s response to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi, the…
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Ukraine Builds a Case That Killing of P.O.W.s Was a Russian War Crime
ODESA, Ukraine — Five days after an explosion at a Russian prison camp killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of…