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Travelers Stranded After Power Outage Closes Heathrow Airport in London

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    What to know if your Heathrow flight was canceled or diverted.

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    A backup generator’s failure raises questions about Heathrow’s contingency planning.

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    ‘A million moving pieces’: What happens when a hub like Heathrow closes.

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‘We Are Stuck’: Heathrow Shutdown Creates Havoc for Travelers

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The access would be a major expansion of Elon Musk’s government role and highlight his conflicts of interest. President Trump denied that China would be discussed.

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Judge to Consider Block on Use of Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans

A hearing today could also include some discussion about the Justice Department’s repeated recalcitrance in responding to the judge’s demands.

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‘It Sounds Strange, Doesn’t It?’ Trump Muses About Gutting the Education Dept.

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U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump

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China’s Government Is Short of Money as Its Leaders Face Trump

Tax revenues have fallen, leaving the government with less money to help consumers or exporters as Beijing braces for President Trump’s tariffs.

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‘Who Will Come to Invest?’ China’s Attacks on Panama Canal Deal Alarm Hong Kong

Beijing’s threat to stop a tycoon’s sale of his ports business has dealmakers wondering if they can still operate without political interference.

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In Germany, ‘Orphaned’ by U.S., Shock Gives Way to Action

No country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with a new world.

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Russian Energy Sites Burn as Kyiv and Moscow Trade Accusations of Blame

Russia and Ukraine are preparing to discuss a potential cease-fire on power infrastructure, and each is seeking to portray the other side as untrustworthy.

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How ‘Severance’ Uses Old Tricks to Make Its Office Hell

Clocks, elevators and cubicles become dystopian signifiers in the television show, which invokes and inverts workplace cinema.

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Sudan’s Military Retakes Presidential Palace in Devastated Capital

Two years into a civil war, troops recaptured the palace in Khartoum, routing a paramilitary foe. Civilians have been trapped in the middle.

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Why the Shipping Industry Isn’t Rushing Back to the Red Sea

Executives say they do not plan to return to the Red Sea until there is a broad Middle East peace accord that includes the Houthis or a defeat of the militia.

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Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages

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Were the John F. Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.

The document drop may have been a disappointment for those hoping for revelations about the assassination. But historians are finding newly revealed secrets.

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Clues From Inside an ‘Extermination Camp’ Promise Despair and Hope

The discovery of an abandoned site outside a village in Mexico has sent families searching for their loved ones into a mix of turmoil and hope for answers.

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The ‘Crisis Moment’ Facing Women’s College Basketball Officiating

Officials getting ripped by coaches and fans is nothing new. But with more eyes than ever on the sport, the issue is reaching a tipping point.

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Everything That Happened on Day 1 of the Men’s N.C.A.A. Tournament

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How Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements

That control is starting to fray as Mr. Johnson, a longevity guru known for performing experiments on his body, faces a backlash over the agreements.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Puts Her Own Spin on Bernie Sanders’s Pitch

The two progressive leaders, one young and one old, are touring Western cities with a similar message but a key difference in how they sell it.

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Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness.

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Late Night: Trump Guts the Education Department

President Trump “famously said he loves the poorly educated, and now he will have so many more people to love,” Jimmy Kimmel said.

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A Republican Board of Elections employee was charged with taking kickbacks in exchange for jobs working the polls in the Bronx. Some say it did not end with her.

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One Doctor’s Quest for the Truth About Convicted Killer Lucy Letby

Dr. Shoo Lee’s research was used to help convict a British nurse of murdering babies, but he says it should never have been cited.

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Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It.

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.

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With a video recorder affixed to his board or clamped to his teeth, he took viewers along for the ride, often inside the curling “barrel” of a wave.

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