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He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation?
BOSTON — Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, west of Boston, and handed him a sheaf of papers.
Ukraine, Stalled on the Front, Steps Up Sabotage, Targeting Trains
KYIV, Ukraine — The saboteurs managed to place four explosives on a Russian freight train carrying diesel and jet fuel, roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian border. But more important than the destruction of the train, Ukrainian intelligence officials said, was the timing of the blast.
Biden’s Team Scrambles to Contain First Democratic Defections
President Joe Biden and his advisers rushed to stem the first serious defections inside the Democratic Party since his shaky debate last week, as leading Democrats lent legitimacy to questions about his mental acuity and raised the specter of replacing him atop the ticket.
Architects of the Trump Supreme Court See Culmination of Conservative Push
WASHINGTON — Back in 2016, a colleague handed Donald McGahn, then a top legal adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, an appeals court opinion that eloquently and powerfully echoed much of what McGahn saw as the evils of an out-of-control federal bureaucracy.
A Major Part of Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan Is Restored
Major components of President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment plan can continue to operate as lawsuits challenging it wind through the legal system, a federal appellate court ruled Sunday. That frees the administration to cut certain borrowers’ payments by as much as half, a benefit that had been previously scheduled but blocked.
Vehement Dissent From Supreme Court’s Liberal Wing Laments Vast Expansion of Presidential Power
The Supreme Court’s three Democratic appointees railed in dissent against the conservative majority’s ruling that former President Donald Trump has some immunity for his official actions, declaring that their colleagues had made the president into “a king above the law.”
Wall Street Law Firms Are in a Poaching Frenzy. Kind of Like the NBA
Hotshot Wall Street lawyers are now so in demand that bidding wars between firms for their services can resemble the frenzy among teams to sign star athletes. Eight-figure pay packages — rare a decade ago — are increasingly common for corporate lawyers at the top of their game, and many of these new heavy hitters have one thing in common: private equity.
Bannon Reports to Prison After One Final Podcast Episode
Steve Bannon, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, has reported for a four-month sentence in federal prison on Monday after hosting the two final hours of his podcast from just outside the low-security facility in Danbury, Connecticut.
Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide
David Metcalf’s last act in life was an attempt to send a message — that years as a Navy SEAL had left his brain so damaged that he could barely recognize himself. He died by suicide in his garage in North Carolina in 2019, at age 42, after nearly 20 years in the Navy. But just before he died, he arranged a stack of books about brain injury by his side, and taped a note to the door that read, in part, “Gaps in memory, failing recognition, mood swings, headaches, impulsiveness, fatigue, anxiety, and paranoia were not who I was, but have become who I am. Each is worsening.”
48 Hours to Fix a 90-Minute Mess: Inside the Biden Camp’s Post-Debate Frenzy
In the wee hours of Friday morning, not long after President Joe Biden had walked off the stage from a disastrous debate, his campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, acknowledged in a series of private calls with prominent supporters that the night had gone poorly but urged them not to overreact.
How Does Bird Flu Spread in Cows? Experiment Yields Some ‘Good News.’
Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment carried out in Kansas and Germany has shed some light on the mystery.
The World of Luxury Fruit: Does a $156 Melon Taste Sweeter?
A $396 pineapple comes tucked into an ornate red box that unfurls like origami and is punched with breathing holes. A $156 melon, swaddled in foam netting, grew alone on a vine from which every other fruit was pruned, with the aim of making it extra sweet.
Orlando Cepeda, Baseball Slugger Known as the Baby Bull, Dies at 86
Orlando Cepeda, the second Puerto Rican native to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and one of the game’s leading sluggers of his time, from the late 1950s to the early ’70s, died Friday. He was 86.
For Emergency Abortion, Idaho Doctors Flew Her Away
Nicole Miller had gone to the emergency room in Boise, Idaho, after waking up with heavy bleeding in her 20th week of pregnancy. By afternoon, she was still leaking amniotic fluid and hemorrhaging and, now in a panic, struggling to understand why the doctor was telling her that she needed to leave the state to be treated.
‘I Know I’m Not a Young Man’: Biden Confronts Doubters During Forceful Rally
RALEIGH, N.C. — President Joe Biden on Friday tried to beat back doubts about his fitness following a disjointed debate performance the night before, firing up a crowd of supporters with an energetic speech that accused former President Donald Trump of being a “one-man crime wave.”
Over 65, With No Place to Call Home
NEW YORK — Robert Kirk, a retired jack of many trades, finds himself homeless at age 74 after a chain of events that could happen to almost anyone. His landlady in Brooklyn died, the building’s new owner raised the rent and later evicted the tenants, and he could not find another apartment he could afford with his Social Security check.
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