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Trump Is Urged to Move on Nuclear Site Thought to Be Beyond Reach of Bombs
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4/17/2026 7:39 PM
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| Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. |
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Trump Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist
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4/17/2026 7:48 PM
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| The Trump administration made the announcement hours after Iran said that the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships. |
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Stocks Extend Rally as Tensions Ease Over War in Iran
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4/17/2026 1:12 PM
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| The S&P 500’s rise on Friday caps a striking three-week streak, powered by investors’ optimism about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and strong corporate earnings. |
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Federal Court Temporarily Freezes Nexstar’s Merger With Tegna
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4/17/2026 7:51 PM
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| The judge said the two television companies could not combine operations while an antitrust lawsuit proceeded. Nexstar said its deal was already done. |
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Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan
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4/17/2026 1:55 PM
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| A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan. |
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With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans
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4/17/2026 6:57 PM
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| Several moves suggest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could revive his campaign to question the safety and effectiveness of the shots after the midterm elections. |
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White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise
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4/17/2026 4:45 PM
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| Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security. |
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Trump’s Dispute With Pope Leo Deepens Divisions on the Right
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4/17/2026 5:56 PM
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| Sean Hannity criticized the pope. Tucker Carlson attacked Mr. Hannity. And President Trump suggested ranking MAGA figures: “good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.” |
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Trump Will Participate in a Marathon Bible Reading
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4/17/2026 6:40 PM
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| He will read a passage from the Old Testament that his Christian supporters cite as a call to national repentance and divine blessing. |
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In Phoenix, Trump Eyes Lower Gas Prices and Frets About the Midterms
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4/17/2026 7:40 PM
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| President Trump told a crowd of supporters that the price of oil and gas was coming down, part of an effort in recent days to present a rosier picture of the nearly two-month-long Iran war. |
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Aging in a Brightly Lit, Big City: Jay McInerney, With a New Novel
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4/17/2026 4:40 AM
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| In 1984, Jay McInerney was a famous, young, hedonistic novelist. Now 71, he is wistful as he wraps up his tetralogy about a couple whose city, and marriage, are tested by the pandemic. |
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Carney Courts Investors to Reduce Canada’s Economic Dependence on U.S.
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4/17/2026 11:47 AM
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| Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors. |
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Lutnick Says Canada Trade Deal Needs to Be Reworked Ahead of Talks
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4/17/2026 11:45 AM
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| Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked. |
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Lena Dunham Made Millennial Culture. Then She Was Undone by It.
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4/17/2026 11:19 AM
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| The era of “Girls” is long gone, but its creator still has much to teach us. |
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Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits
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4/17/2026 1:55 PM
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| The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues. |
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Through A.I. Glasses-Powered Translation, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment
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4/17/2026 8:32 AM
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| Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world. |
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Cerebras, an A.I. Chip Maker, Files to Go Public as Tech Offerings Ramp Up
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4/17/2026 3:03 PM
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| The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings. |
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Japan’s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper
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4/17/2026 1:55 PM
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| The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor. |
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Western States Need Water. San Diego Has Extra. Will They Make A Deal?
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4/17/2026 3:05 PM
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| San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies. |
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Rescuers Try to Save Timmy, a Whale Stranded Off Germany
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4/17/2026 3:16 PM
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| A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success. |
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Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
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4/17/2026 9:15 AM
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| The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer. |
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A Paris Court Just Rewrote the Rules of Corporate Morality
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4/17/2026 5:03 PM
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| The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing. |
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Tornados Reported Across the Midwest as Powerful Storms Slam the Region
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4/17/2026 5:35 PM
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| One reported tornado downed trees and damaged cars in Lena, Ill., an official said. |
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Starmer’s Credibility Just Took Another Body Blow Over the Mandelson Scandal
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4/17/2026 11:41 AM
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| Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness. |
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An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. A Drake Video Was to Blame.
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4/17/2026 4:36 PM
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| A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a video shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008. |