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Iran, Holding Firm to Hormuz, Pushes for Return to June MOU
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8/9/2026 10:58 AM
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| The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s best leverage to get Washington to release Iran’s frozen assets, lift economic sanctions and end its naval blockade. |
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Inside the War on Hezbollah’s Finances
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8/9/2026 2:00 AM
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| Israel and the United States aren’t just targeting the Lebanese militant group’s weapons. They’re going after its money. |
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Oil Prices Climb and Stocks Dip on Stalemate in Iran War
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8/9/2026 3:20 PM
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| Hopes were dashed over the weekend for a breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz. |
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Iran Taps Longtime I.R.G.C. Commander Mohsen Rezaei to Top Security Post
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8/9/2026 11:18 AM
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| The appointment of Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council suggests that Iran’s old guard is consolidating power. |
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Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags
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8/9/2026 5:58 AM
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| The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president. |
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Trump Names Will Scharf as White House Counsel
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8/9/2026 6:44 PM
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| The president said Mr. Scharf, a deeply conservative lawyer and the current staff secretary, would replace David Warrington in early September. |
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Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is Freezing Her Eggs and Still Mulling a Presidential Run
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8/9/2026 1:23 PM
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| In a TV interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from positions like “defund the police” and indicated she hasn’t ruled out a presidential or Senate run. |
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Anthony Scaramucci, Podcast Star, Explains U.S. Politics to the World
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8/9/2026 5:52 AM
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| He spent 11 days in the Trump White House nine years ago. Now he has a hit podcast, helping the British public, among others, understand what’s going on. |
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Obama and Abdul El-Sayed Discuss Unity After Michigan Senate Primary
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8/9/2026 7:56 PM
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| Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s call with the former president comes as he tries to win over wary Democrats in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate race. |
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A Democrat Sounds the Alarm on Christian Nationalism in Congress
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8/9/2026 2:01 AM
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| Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger. |
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How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
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8/9/2026 8:55 AM
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| Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion. |
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She Makes the Impossible Happen for Her Ultrarich Clients
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8/9/2026 2:01 AM
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| Olivia Ferney grew up a child of schoolteachers in Ontario. Now she’s an expert in private jets, luxury cabanas and champagne-soaked revels. |
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A Maine Town, Once Dependent on a Paper Mill, Tries to Move On
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8/9/2026 2:00 AM
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| For over a century, Madison Paper Industries was a small Maine town’s economic engine. A new owner moved in, but uncertainty persists. |
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Don Nelson, Hall of Fame N.B.A. Coach and Celtics Star, Dies at 86
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8/9/2026 8:16 PM
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| One of the winningest coaches in league history, he led the Bucks, the Warriors and the Mavericks. He also had a brief stint with the Knicks. |
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Lake Mead, the Nation’s Largest Reservoir, Is Smaller Than Ever
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8/9/2026 5:44 PM
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| Water levels in the reservoir, which sits behind the Hoover Dam, are at record lows. A continued drop would imperil water supplies for millions of people and cut electricity from the dam. |
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Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour Isn’t Interested in Management Advice
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8/9/2026 2:00 AM
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| Tarek Mansour co-founded the fast-growing prediction market company shortly after graduating from M.I.T., aiming to provide a “mathematical, objective” view of the world. |
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Mother and Daughter Die After Boat Overturns in New York Harbor
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8/9/2026 5:45 PM
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| Police divers found a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old baby in the water near Liberty Island. A man was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. |
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Has America Already Undergone a Soft Breakup?
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8/9/2026 6:16 AM
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| It can’t go on like this forever. |
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It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.
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8/9/2026 6:27 PM
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| The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country. |
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Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61
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8/9/2026 2:29 PM
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| She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. |