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President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, attending Mass at St. Matthew’s in Washington the morning of his inauguration.
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Targeting Biden, Catholic Bishops Advance Controversial Communion Plan

New York Times - By Elizabeth Dias

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Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge

New York Times - By Adam Liptak

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Justice Dept. Watchdog to Investigate Seizure of Democrats’ Data

New York Times - By Nicholas Fandos and Charlie Savage

President Biden described America’s democratic alliances as vital to the world’s future during an address to American troops in Britain on Wednesday. The speech kicked off his first foreign trip as president. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

In Europe, Biden Vows to Build Alliances and Democracy

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Harris’ visit to Guatemala and Mexico a mix of diplomacy and controversy

New York Times - By NOAH BIERMAN, TRACY WILKINSON

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Alzheimer’s Drug Poses a Dilemma for the F.D.A.

New York Times - By Pam Belluck and Rebecca Robbins

President Biden has cut more than $1 trillion from his initial infrastructure proposal, while Republicans have added less than $100 billion in new spending to their first offer. Credit...Oliver Contreras for The New York Times

Biden Narrows Infrastructure Request, but Hurdles Remain for Bipartisan Deal

New York Times - By Jim Tankersley and Emily Cochrane

Mr. Lapid, the Yesh Atid Party leader, speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv, last month. Credit...Amir Levy/Getty Images

Netanyahu Rivals Agree on Israeli Coalition to Oust Him

New York Times - By Patrick Kingsley

A polar bear in the Beaufort Sea, off the Alaskan coast in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Credit...Steven J. Kazlowski/Alamy

Biden Suspends Drilling Leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

New York Times - By Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain and Lisa Friedman

Michele Preissler held a viewing for her husband, Darryl Preissler, who died of Covid-19 this month. Ms. Preissler was vaccinated when the couple attended a family wedding in April, but her husband wasn’t. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

The Pandemic in the U.S. Has Vastly Improved. For These Families, the Worst Has Just Begun.

New York Times - By Sarah Mervosh

Homes on one of the many man-made lakes in the River Islands subdivision in Lathrop, Calif. Credit...Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

House Hunters Are Leaving the City, and Builders Can’t Keep Up

New York Times - By Conor Dougherty and Ben Casselman

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Prosecutors Investigating Whether Ukrainians Meddled in 2020 Election

New York Times - By William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, Kenneth P. Vogel and Nicole Hong

Tactical law enforcement officers moved through the light rail yard where a shooting occurred in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday. Credit...Philip Pacheco/Getty Images

Victims’ Names Are Released After California Shooting

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A moment of silence in Minneapolis on Tuesday lasted nine minutes and 29 seconds, the amount of time a white officer’s knee remained on George Floyd’s neck. Credit: Aaron Nesheim for The New York Times

‘On the Ashes of Tragedy’: Mixed Emotions on Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death

New York Times - By Tim Arango and Andrés R. Martínez

Supporters of the detained Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich hold paper planes during a protest in Warsaw on Monday. Credit: Omar Marques/Getty Images

Belarus Is Isolated as Other Countries Move to Ban Flights

New York Times - By Anton Troianovski

A Belarusian dog handler checking luggage from a Ryanair flight at Minsk International Airport on Sunday.Credit...Onliner.by/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Belarus Forces Down Plane to Seize Dissident; Europe Sees ‘State Hijacking’

New York Times - By Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko

A family eating hotpot at a restaurant in Beijing. China’s population is projected to contract sharply this century.Credit...Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications

New York Times - By Damien Cave, Emma Bubola and Choe Sang-Hun

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Israel’s Military Inflicted a Heavy Toll. But Did It Achieve Its Aim?

New York Times - By Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman

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Severely Ill in Africa Die at a Higher Rate, Study Says

New York Times - By Denise Grady and Remy Tumin

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Near-Complete Ban on Abortion Is Signed Into Law in Texas

New York Times - By Edgar Sandoval and Dave Montgomery

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Gaza War Deepens a Long-Running Humanitarian Crisis

New York Times - By Iyad Abuheweila, Adam Rasgon, Isabel Kershner and Marc Santo

Searching for survivors under the rubble of a building hit overnight by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday. Credit: Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times

Airstrike Kills Dozens in Gaza as U.N. Security Council Prepares to Meet

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Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile defense weapons, designed to intercept incoming rockets and artillery shells, in Sderot.Credit...Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Gaza Rocket Finds a Rare Gap in Israeli Armor, and a Boy Is Killed

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner

Airstrikes in southern Gaza on Tuesday. The Israeli military said in a statement that it had reinforced its troops and was “prepared for a variety of scenarios.” Credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Israel Hits Gaza With Airstrikes as Hamas Increases Rocket Fire

New York Times - By Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner

President Biden gives remarks on the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining Room of the White House on May 5. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

Biden’s sweeping — and fluid — tax plans are making some congressional Democrats nervous

New York Times - By Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager

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‘Why Do We Deserve to Die?’ Kabul’s Hazaras Bury Their Daughters.

New York Times - By Adam Nossiter

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As Texas Voting Restrictions Near Passage, Democrats Stage Protest

New York Times - By David Montgomery

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Health Advocate or Big Brother? Companies Weigh Requiring Vaccines.

New York Times - By GILLIAN FRIEDMAN and LAUREN HIRSCH

Edward Stely walks through an outdoor container filled with thousands of paper gun records which are part of the National Tracing Center at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Martinsburg, W.V.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

How the A.T.F., Key to Biden’s Gun Plan, Became an N.R.A. ‘Whipping Boy’

New York Times - By Glenn Thrush, Danny Hakim and Mike McIntire

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G.O.P. Seeks to Empower Poll Watchers, Raising Intimidation Worries

New York Times - By Nick Corasaniti

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After a Year of Loss, South America Suffers Worst Death Tolls Yet

New York Times - By Julie Turkewitz and Mitra Taj

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How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine

New York Times - By Emma Cott, Elliot deBruyn and Jonathan Corum

President Biden wants to pay for the plan by increasing the capital gains tax and the top marginal income tax rate.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times

Biden Seeks $80 Billion to Beef Up I.R.S. Audits of High-Earners

New York Times - By Jim Tankersley

Frances McDormand, who won best actress, on stage as “Nomadland” picked up best picture.Credit...ABC, via Associated Press

‘Nomadland’ Makes History, and Chadwick Boseman Is Upset at the Oscars

New York Times - By Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling

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J.&.J. Vaccine Will Be Available Again Soon

New York Times - By Denise Grady, Julie Bosman and Noah Weiland

The scene of the shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday.Credit...The Indianapolis Star, via Associated Press

At Least 8 Dead in Shooting at Indianapolis FedEx Facility, Police Say

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Why flights from Central America often have the enticing aroma of fried chicken

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan and Tim Arango

The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran lost power on Sunday. It houses centrifuges used for uranium enrichment. Credit...Raheb Homavandi/Reuters

Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage

New York Times - By Ronen Bergman, Rick Gladstone and Farnaz Fassihi

President Biden said on Wednesday that tax increases were necessary to pay for infrastructure investments. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times

Biden’s Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting

New York Times - By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport

In a still image from video inside Cup Foods, George Floyd is seen on the day he died in police custody.Credit...Court TV still image, via Associated Press

Clerk Who Questioned $20 Bill Watched Floyd Arrest With ‘Disbelief and Guilt’

New York Times - By John Eligon, Shaila Dewan, Tim Arango and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Students in the South Orange-Maplewood school district in New Jersey joined class remotely outside a shuttered elementary building during a protest.Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times

‘I’ve Lost a Lot of Faith’: Suburban Parents Push Schools to Reopen Faster

New York Times - By Tracey Tully

Ibram X. Kendi published the book “How To Be An Antiracist” in 2019. Emma Howells for The New York Times

He Redefined ‘Racist.’ Now He’s Trying to Build a Newsroom.

New York Times - By Ben Smith

Protesters clashing with members of the Chicago Police Department in August. Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press

In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests

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Vehicles waiting in line at a mass vaccination site in Tonalá, Mexico, this week. Ulises Ruiz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada

New York Times - By Natalie Kitroeff, Maria Abi-Habib, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Jim Tankersley

Asylum seekers from Central America last week in La Joya, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. Adrees Latif/Reuters

Surge in Migrants Defies Easy or Quick Solutions for Biden

New York Times - By Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

The musicians in the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra, seen here at a rehearsal in 2017, have not been paid for nearly a year. Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times

The Met Opera’s Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling

New York Times - By Julia Jacobs

President Biden said his administration had provided support to Johnson & Johnson that would enable the United States and its partners to make coronavirus vaccines around the clock. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Biden Vows Enough Vaccine ‘for Every Adult American’ by End of May

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Workers buried a person who died of Covid in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida public cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, in January. Credit: Raphael Alves/EPA, via Shutterstock

Virus Variant in Brazil Infected Many Who Had Already Recovered From Covid-19

New York Times - By Carl Zimmer

Fast food workers and other supporters of the minimum wage increase at a rally this month in Los Angeles. Credit: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Top Senate Official Disqualifies Minimum Wage From Stimulus Plan

New York Times - By Emily Cochrane

The cost of a free market electrical grid became painfully clear last week, as a snowstorm descended on Texas and millions of people ran out of power and water.Credit...Nitashia Johnson for The New York Times

How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

New York Times - By Clifford Krauss, Manny Fernandez, Ivan Penn and Rick Rojas

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