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Trump Officials Impose More Sanctions to Pressure Cuba

Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.

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Activity in Havana, once bustling, has dwindled as uncertainty grows about the city’s future. Cuba’s economy has suffered because of the U.S. blockade on oil shipments.
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Trump Officials Impose More Sanctions to Pressure Cuba

Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.

© Pablo Porciuncula/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Activity in Havana, once bustling, has dwindled as uncertainty grows about the city’s future. Cuba’s economy has suffered because of the U.S. blockade on oil shipments.
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Trump Threatens Economic Pain for Countries That Help Iran

The president did not specify what actions he would take, and he has on other occasions abandoned threats to dramatically escalate the war with Iran.

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President Trump in transit from Maryland last week.
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Trump Votes by Mail Again in Florida

The president also voted by mail in 2020 and in a Florida special election in March, even as he has railed against the practice and equated it to cheating.

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President Trump has voted by mail in Palm Beach County at least twice before: Once in 2020 and earlier this year in a special election.
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Judge Rules Trump Administration Can’t Scrap F.B.I. Move to Maryland

The ruling is almost certainly not the end of the lengthy fight over the F.B.I.’s future headquarters, which has lasted for years.

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The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in Washington last year. An imposing symbol of the F.B.I.’s vast federal powers when it opened in 1974, the building has long been deteriorating.
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Trump Administration Lets Parts of the National Firearms Act Lapse

The retreat by the Justice Department effectively allowed a pillar of the Prohibition-era National Firearms Act to lapse.

© Erin Schaff for The New York Times

The popularity of gun suppressors, once a niche accessory, has skyrocketed.
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