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Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba
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12/13/2025 12:08 AM
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| Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses. |
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Behind the Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Daring Escape to Oslo
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12/12/2025 4:55 PM
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| An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation. |
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For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela
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12/12/2025 3:30 PM
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| President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela. |
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In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss
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12/12/2025 1:02 PM
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| Thursday demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system. |
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Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey
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12/12/2025 7:59 PM
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| Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him. |
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Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks
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12/12/2025 7:02 PM
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| On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation. |
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Colorado Officials Reject Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of a Convicted Election Denier
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12/13/2025 2:02 AM
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| The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers. |
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Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
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12/13/2025 2:00 AM
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| His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library. |
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Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out
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12/13/2025 3:52 AM
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| Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him. |
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Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.
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12/13/2025 2:00 AM
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| Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization. |
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The Reasonable Majority Is No Longer Silent
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12/13/2025 4:00 AM
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| Donald Trump is confronting a backlash of the reasonable. |
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Baby Steps
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12/13/2025 4:16 AM
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| The antidote to our increasingly disembodied lives may lie in letting go of our inhibitions and dancing like kids do. |
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
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12/12/2025 4:55 PM
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| A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year. |
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Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?
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12/13/2025 2:14 AM
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| The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know. |
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A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic
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12/13/2025 2:02 AM
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| In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases. |
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Record Flooding Swamps Western Washington
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12/12/2025 4:07 PM
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| Gov. Bob Ferguson and other state officials cautioned that more rainfall was expected after rivers hit record flood levels across the region, while residents worried about the long-term future. |