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Fed Meeting Underscores Tough Task Ahead for Warsh
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4/29/2026 3:06 PM
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| Jerome H. Powell on Wednesday announced he would stay on as a governor at the central bank as internal divisions sharpen about the policy path forward. |
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Powell Says He Will Stay On as Fed Governor After Term as Chair Ends
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4/29/2026 4:07 PM
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| Jerome H. Powell cited lingering legal threats against him and the Federal Reserve in explaining his decision to remain at the central bank. |
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Supreme Court Grapples With Trump’s Plan to Revoke Deportation Protections
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4/29/2026 12:52 PM
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| The case deals with Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians but could have implications for more than a million from troubled nations. |
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What the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Could Mean for the Midterms
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4/29/2026 3:34 PM
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| Democrats stand to lose at least one blue-leaning district in Louisiana, but the timing was unclear. Florida has approved a redder map, and Republicans in several other states are weighing new districts. |
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What the Royal State Dinner Guest List Says About Trump’s America
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4/29/2026 4:12 PM
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| There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British. |
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Melania Trump, Queen Camilla and the Look of the Special Relationship
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4/29/2026 8:09 AM
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| Parsing a state visit told in photo ops, and style. |
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Queen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh With a Long-Lost Friend
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4/29/2026 4:19 PM
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| On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain. |
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Pentagon Puts Iran War Cost at $25 Billion as Hegseth Berates Skeptics
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4/29/2026 3:07 PM
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| During his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since the war began, the defense secretary lashed out at lawmakers in both parties who have questioned the conflict. |
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Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers
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4/29/2026 3:28 PM
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| The defense secretary said at a House hearing that President Barack Obama had fired 197 generals, a figure that the Pentagon previously acknowledged was false. |
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Lucinda Williams Explains What It Takes to Write a Great Song
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4/29/2026 9:02 AM
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| The singer-songwriter talks about being self-taught, and reaching down into the deepest, darkest parts of herself to pull out a song. |
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How Taylor Swift Writes a Song, In Her Own Words
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4/28/2026 1:14 AM
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| The artist shares stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a “rant bridge” and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs. |
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Musk Says He ‘Was a Fool’ to Provide OpenAI’s Early Funding
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4/29/2026 4:25 PM
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| In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had misled him. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite. |
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A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight
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4/29/2026 3:53 PM
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| Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come. |
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Meta Deal Reversal Deepens Split Between China and Silicon Valley
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4/29/2026 2:08 PM
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| Beijing’s insistence that Meta unwind its deal with a Chinese A.I. start-up escalates the geopolitical fight over advanced tech. |
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Congress Races to Renew Surveillance Law After House Approval
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4/29/2026 3:46 PM
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| Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push the measure through the House, but it faces changes in the Senate that could delay its final passage past a Friday expiration. |
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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter Planned Attack Weeks Before Gala, Prosecutors Say
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4/29/2026 1:32 PM
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| A new prosecution memo details the preparations made in the days and weeks before the assault on the White House correspondents’ dinner. |
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They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead.
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4/29/2026 4:45 PM
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| A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community. |
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Why Can’t Parkland Be Used as a Park? Ask the Judges Who Park There.
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4/29/2026 9:40 AM
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| A decades-old fight over a parking lot reserved for judges in Brooklyn has picked up steam with a new generation of combatants. |
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Trump and Putin Call for a Brief Cease-Fire in Ukraine
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4/29/2026 12:40 PM
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| Previous truces have broken down amid competing accusations of violations, and it is not clear that Ukraine will agree to Moscow’s terms. |
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‘Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats
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4/29/2026 8:58 AM
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| With Israel increasingly unpopular and antisemitism on the rise, Jewish politicians find themselves more and more under attack. |
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The Murky Ethics of Swimming With Killer Whales
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4/29/2026 2:10 PM
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| Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern. |
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The Justices Acted as Partisans in the Voting Rights Ruling
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4/29/2026 4:39 PM
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| In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities. |
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What Worries Me Most About ‘Abundance’
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4/29/2026 2:37 PM
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| It’s been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his “Abundance” co-author Derek Thompson and with Marc Dunkelman, the author of “Why Nothing Works.” |
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U.S. Indictment Accuses Mexican Governor of Conspiring With Sinaloa Cartel
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4/29/2026 3:46 PM
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| Prosecutors accused Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, and other Mexican officials of a yearslong conspiracy to protect the powerful cartel. |
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Brown University Gunman Planned Attack for Years, F.B.I. Says
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4/29/2026 3:16 PM
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| Investigators said the man’s transient lifestyle and social isolation made his intentions hard to track before shootings that killed two Brown students and an M.I.T. professor. |
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Mississippi Middle School Students Avert Bus Crash After Driver Loses Control
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4/29/2026 3:41 PM
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| Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway. |
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Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91
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4/29/2026 4:15 PM
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| The musclebound character he developed as a toy designer for Mattel gave rise to the Masters of the Universe franchise and helped define the machismo of the 1980s. |