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China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time
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12/7/2025 8:15 PM
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| President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months. |
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China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism
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12/7/2025 8:18 PM
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| China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports. |
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Democrats Call for Releasing Video of Deadly Boat Strike in the Caribbean
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12/7/2025 12:45 PM
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| Top Democratic lawmakers who have seen the footage said Sunday that making the video public would provide transparency around the strikes that killed two survivors on Sept. 2. |
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U.S. Deports Second Planeload of Iranians, Officials Say
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12/7/2025 8:34 PM
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| The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago. |
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Trump Hosts the Kennedy Center Honors, Breaking Tradition
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12/7/2025 11:03 PM
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| Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump was the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief. |
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Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies
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12/7/2025 1:28 PM
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| President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics. |
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For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle
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12/7/2025 2:02 AM
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s actions. |
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How Biden Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
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12/7/2025 1:24 PM
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| The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House. |
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4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Record
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12/7/2025 1:27 PM
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| A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda. |
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A Small Illinois City at the Center of a Seismic Shift in Abortion Access
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12/7/2025 2:00 AM
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| Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000. |
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Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia in New Wave of Violence
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12/8/2025 12:52 AM
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| Each side accused the other of firing first. The fighting came weeks after President Trump had cast himself as a peacemaker in the decades-old border dispute. |
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He Was a Russian Activist in Exile. His Own Wife Accused Him of Spying.
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12/7/2025 9:01 PM
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| Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed. |
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Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy for Users
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12/7/2025 12:46 PM
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| The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. |
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Social Security at 70? Why the Gold Standard Advice Works for Only a Few
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12/7/2025 2:01 AM
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| The standard advice is to hold off, but most retirees claim the benefit as soon as they can, at age 62. Here’s what to know when you’re planning the unplannable. |
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Dogs in Kimonos: Japan Reinvents a Children’s Holiday With Pets in Mind
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12/7/2025 9:01 PM
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| A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children. |
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Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal.
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12/7/2025 7:04 PM
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| A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes. |
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The One Child Policy’s Legacy: A Surplus of Single Men
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12/4/2025 5:17 PM
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| A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love? |
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United Nations Cuts Its 2026 Emergency Aid Budget in Half
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12/7/2025 9:01 PM
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| Huge reductions in foreign aid by the United States and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year. |
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Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
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12/7/2025 7:19 PM
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| “Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained. |
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Fern Michaels, Prolific Author of Romance Novels, Dies at 92
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12/7/2025 12:54 PM
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| In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books. |
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Katy Perry Posts Photos With Justin Trudeau Amid Romance Rumors
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12/7/2025 12:27 PM
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| Ms. Perry and Mr. Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, posed together in photos and videos on Instagram, making them “Instagram official.” |