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Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum

The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow President Biden to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers.

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Donald Trump’s Harder Line on Immigration Appears to Resonate, Polls Show

As the 2024 presidential election ramps up, here is what polls say about public views on the growing number of migrants.

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Mexico Elects Claudia Sheinbaum as First Woman to Lead Country

A climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, Ms. Sheinbaum won a landslide victory in what was called the largest election in Mexico’s history.

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Mexico election results

Candidates Votes
Percent
Seats
Sheinbaum
Winner
30,080,065 59.0%
Gálvez
 14,305,079 28.0
Máynez
 5,360,804 10.5
85% counted
Election data unavailable

Source: Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP)

Note: Vote counts and vote share percentages are preliminary.

Mexico joined a list of Latin American nations that have elected female leaders.

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A climate scientist was just elected president in an oil-producing country. Now what?

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In Baltimore’s Senior Homes, Overdoses Plague a Forgotten Generation

Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s. Read the second story in our investigation.

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Over the past six years, as Baltimore has grappled with one of America’s deadliest drug epidemics, overdoses have fallen hardest on Black men aged 50 to 70.

Israel’s Offensive in Southern Gaza Strains Ties With Egypt

The Israeli military’s operation in Rafah, on the Egyptian border, risks upsetting a delicate peace that has been a pillar of its national security for decades.

 

  1. An explosion at a building during a strike in Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip.
    Mohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock
  2. A wounded Palestinian man outside the European Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
    Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock
  3. Palestinians walk through destroyed buildings in Nuseirat, in central Gaza.
    By The Associated Press
  4. A Palestinian boy mourning his father, who was killed in an overnight airstrike in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza.
    Bashar Taleb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  5. People seen through the rubble of a destroyed building in Nuseirat.
    Mohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock
  6. Lining up at a food distribution point in Bureij.
    Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  7. Tanks at Israel's border with Gaza.
    Leo Correa/Associated Press
  8. Smoke rising after rocket attacks from Lebanon in the Golan Heights on Sunday, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed.
    Ayal Margolin/Reuters

Holocaust Museums Debate What to Say About the Israel-Hamas War

Students are bringing up antisemitic tropes and asking survivors and docents: What is Palestine? Is there a genocide in Gaza?

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The Great Read

The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College

Benjamin Bolger has spent his whole life amassing academic degrees. What can we learn from him?

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Jury Selection Begins in Hunter Biden Trial on Gun Charges

President Biden’s son is on trial in Wilmington, Del., on three charges that he lied about his drug use on a federal firearms application in 2018.

 

Hunter Biden arriving at the U.S. District Court in Delaware on Monday.

Fauci Denies Republican Allegations That He Covered Up a Lab Leak

Dr. Anthony Fauci, testifying for a House panel investigating Covid’s origins, called the accusation “absolutely false and simply preposterous.”

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Washington Post Newsroom Reels From Sudden Editor Exit

Sally Buzbee, who has been editor of The Washington Post since 2021, chafed at a major reorganization by the newspaper’s chief executive.

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Sally Buzbee photographed wearing a black blazer.

Liberals Find a TV Prescription for Election Jitters: Monday Nights

Once a week, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart are luring viewers back to basic cable.

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Closeups of Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.

Price Pendulum Swings Back to Discounts, Within Limits

The pandemic shopping boom led many retailers to widen profit margins by charging more. Now value is the watchword as consumers grow choosier.

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The entrance to a Target store, with shoppers entering and leaving, and a pedestrian and a bicycle delivery worker passing by on the sidewalk.

Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable in the U.S.

More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices to within striking distance of gasoline cars.

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American car deals vanished during the pandemic. They’re coming back.

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Brexit Champion Says He’ll Run for Parliament, Jolting U.K. Election

Nigel Farage, an anti-immigration campaigner and Trump ally, reversed a pledge not to run. His Reform U.K. party hopes to take seats from Conservatives.

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Nigel Farage standing at a lectern that says “Britain Needs Reform,” with a large Union Jack in the background.

A Mazda, a Gift Bag of $120,000 and a Dismissed Juror

A stranger dropped off cash at a juror’s house and offered more if she voted to acquit defendants charged with defrauding federal food programs.

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A sign points to a Feeding Our Future charity office behind two glass doors.

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Opinion

Alina Chan

The Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab. Here’s Why.

Jeff Goodell

The Heat Wave Scenario That Keeps Climate Scientists Up at Night

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Rick Bright

There’s a Third Human Bird Flu Case. Many Others Are Going Undetected.

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Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

Time Flies When You’re Being Convicted

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Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl

I Reread a Book That Changed My Life, but I’d Changed, Too

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A young woman lies on the shore of a lake with mountains in the background. A pair of eyeglasses is lying beside her head and she is holding a book above her face to read it.

Anton Jäger

My Country Shows What Europe Has Become

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Dena Ibrahim

First They Came for Sudan’s Future. Now They’re Destroying Its Past.

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