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Former President Donald J. Trump told a jaw-dropping story on Thursday about nearly dying in a helicopter ride with Willie Brown, the former California politician and ex-boyfriend of his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. There was only one problem with the story. Or maybe two. Or maybe three. It wasn’t the famous former San Francisco

Israel is girding for widely anticipated retaliatory attacks by Iran and Hezbollah, telling its people this week to stock up on food and water in fortified safe rooms, while hospitals prepare to move patients to underground wards and search-and-rescue teams position themselves in major cities. The Israeli government’s security cabinet convened on Thursday night as

A recall has been issued for more than one million Samsung stoves after hundreds of reports of them being turned on accidentally, leading to fires that injured dozens and killed at least seven pets, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement on Thursday. Customers who own one of the 30 recalled models of

The American Civil Liberties Union lost a case about offensive speech and workers’ rights — over its own workplace. A judge ruled on Wednesday that the A.C.L.U. had illegally fired an employee, Kate Oh, from her job as senior policy counsel. The group had accused her of using language that was racist and that singled

Good evening. Tonight, my colleague Luke Broadwater tells us how the House Republicans who have spent lots of time investigating President Biden are switching gears. And we have a dispatch from Donald Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago. — Jess Bidgood By Luke Broadwater Since taking power in 2023, House Republicans have thrown most of their

To hear former President Donald J. Trump tell it, he has just been heartsick over all that has happened to poor old President Biden these past few weeks. “The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., on