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Justice Dept. Demands That California Counties Help Identify Noncitizen Voters

Par : Laurel Rosenhall and Shawn Hubler
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”

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A ballot processing center in Industry, Calif., last year. California elections rely heavily on mail voting.
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Justice Dept. Suit Reignites a Legal Fight in Alaska

Par : Tim Balk and Kellen Browning
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled months ago that two candidates, both named Dan Sullivan, could appear on the ballot on Election Day.

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A yard sign for Senator Dan S. Sullivan in Petersburg, Alaska. Dan J. Sullivan is also set to appear on the ballot.
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Why Legal Experts See the Justice Dept.’s Alaska Election Challenge as Dubious

Par : Charlie Savage
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.

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Senator Dan Sullivan with Mary Peltola, his Democratic challenger, during a debate in Kodiak, Alaska, last month.
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Corey Lewandowski Always Found His Way Back to Trump. Until Now.

Par : Luke Broadwater
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.

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Corey Lewandowski at an election night watch party in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2024.
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Appeals Court Backs Trump on Constitutionality of Detentions

Par : Mattathias Schwartz
The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.

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An ICE detention facility in Texas last year.
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A MAGA Bank’s Financial Woes Entangle Vivek Ramaswamy and Rick Jackson

Par : Danny Hakim
Georgia’s Rick Jackson has spearheaded a court battle over a failed ‘anti-woke’ bank that also counted Ohio’s Vivek Ramaswamy as a major investor.

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Rick Jackson speaking in July at an event in Marietta, Ga.
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Trump Advisers Give Fees Earned for Aiding Srpska to His Library

Par : Kenneth P. Vogel
The donations from James Blair and Chris LaCivita were revealed after the president expressed pique over their consulting work for Republika Srpska.

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James Blair, a political operative, donated the fees he earned for advising a pro-Russian Balkan government to President Trump’s library fund.
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Two Former F.B.I. Officials Charged With False Statements About Hunter Biden

Par : Alan Feuer · Charlie Savage and Zach Montague
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

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The two officials served on the F.B.I.’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a group created after Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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Lawmakers Plan to Block Trump Nominees Over Ukraine Satellite Network Restrictions

Par : Robert Jimison
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.

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Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania and a former F.B.I. agent who worked on Russian counterintelligence in Kyiv, said he doubted the communication problems were accidental.
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Under U.S. Watch, Venezuela Grapples With Tensions Over Democracy

Par : Edward Wong and Julie Turkewitz
President Trump says Venezuela is not ready for elections, and he focuses instead on its oil. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nudging talks between opposing politicians.

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Dinorah Figuera, left, Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez during a meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, in a photo released by the Venezuelan presidency.
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Under U.S. Watch, Venezuela Grapples With Tensions Over Democracy

Par : Edward Wong and Julie Turkewitz
President Trump says Venezuela is not ready for elections, and he focuses instead on its oil. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nudging talks between opposing politicians.

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Dinorah Figuera, left, Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez during a meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, in a photo released by the Venezuelan presidency.
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Here’s What Democrats Plan to Do With Their Power if They Win Back Congress

Par : Annie Karni
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.

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Should they win in November, top House Democrats are planning a shock-and-awe legislative sprint to demonstrate within hours of taking power that they are passing bills to deliver on their promises.
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Susan Collins Uses Troy Jackson’s ‘Shut Up’ Debate Comment in New Ad

Par : Evan Gorelick
The spot casts the remark made at a debate by Senator Susan Collins’s Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, as evidence of how he treats women.

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Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, left, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, during a debate this month in Bangor, Maine.
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Israeli Settlers Turn a Palestinian Rite Into a Gantlet of Violence and Fear

Par : Fatima AbdulKarim · Gabby Sobelman · Azam Ahmed and Ivor Prickett
This year’s olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is the most violent in years, as settlers have attacked farmers and besieged homes, drawing condemnation from U.S. officials and others.

Palestinians harvesting olives last week in Khirbet Abu Falah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians there last week, injuring several people, including an American journalist.
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Here’s What Democrats Plan to Do With Their Power if They Win Back Congress

Par : Annie Karni
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.

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Should they win in November, top House Democrats are planning a shock-and-awe legislative sprint to demonstrate within hours of taking power that they are passing bills to deliver on their promises.
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Trump Officials Seek Block on Alaska Senate Race Results if the Republican Dan Sullivan Loses

Par : Devlin Barrett and Kellen Browning
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.

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Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican incumbent, at a rally this month. The ballot in the Senate race also features Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
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Melania Trump Says She Brokered a Cease-Fire in a Starving Ukrainian City

Par : Katie Rogers
The first lady, who is positioning herself as an intermediary between two warring nations as her husband sides with Russia, said the agreement would allow residents to evacuate.

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“It was abundantly clear that without my intervention, the possibility to bring humanitarian aid into the city and to evacuate the elderly would be impossible,” Melania Trump, the first lady, said in a statement.
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How a U.K. Official’s Wife Set Off a Debate Over Free Speech and Palestinians

Par : Michael D. Shear
Sarah Helm, who is married to Britain’s national security adviser, posted of her support for the author Sally Rooney and a banned pro-Palestinian activist group. A furor ensued.

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Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national security adviser, outside 10 Downing Street, London, last year.
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Nearly 2 Years After the Fires, L.A. Mayor Fights for Her Political Life

Par : Shawn Hubler
Karen Bass, who has never lost an election, has struggled to recapture the city’s faith since the devastating wildfires that erupted in 2025.

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Mayor Karen Bass is counting on a bloc of undecided voters to carry her past Nithya Raman.
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France Plans to Bolster Police Presence, Expecting New Protests

Par : Ségolène Le Stradic
Government officials are trying to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s unrest across the country, which injured police officers and damaged stores.

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Riot police officers during civil unrest in Paris on Sunday.
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Tom Tiffany Tries to Distance Himself From Trump in Wisconsin Governor’s Race

Par : Robert Draper
Wisconsin’s Republican candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany, is talking about nearly anything but President Trump. And as Republicans watch Mr. Trump’s approval ratings plummet, he is hardly alone.

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Representative Tom Tiffany greeting people during a campaign stop last week in Elkhorn, Wis.
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Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Deposition in BBC Defamation Case

Par : Mark Walker
Lawyers for the BBC had accused the president of delaying his testimony in the case he brought.

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The BBC headquarters in London.
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Campaigns Spend Over $1 Billion Over Two Weeks in Final Search for Votes

Par : Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
Fueled by tens of millions from Elon Musk, President Trump’s super PAC, Michael Bloomberg and other big donors, both parties are pumping enormous amounts into the final days of the midterms.

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James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, spent more than $22 million from his campaign account in the first two weeks of October, the most of any candidate in a competitive race.
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Most Voters Believe the Midterm Elections Will Be Accurate, Poll Finds

Par : Richard Fausset and Ruth Igielnik
But about half expressed concerns that Republicans could try to overturn the results, a New York Times/Siena poll found.

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The first day of early voting on Thursday in Silver Spring, Md.
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As Brazil Prepares for Election Runoff, a Town Offers Clues to Bolsonaro’s Rise

Par : Adam B. Ellick and Seth Kugel
Deep in cattle country, voter sentiments in an evangelical stronghold help explain why the country’s leftist president is the underdog in Sunday’s election.

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A gathering last month in Nanuque, Brazil, where longtime residents and those who have moved away come together to dance and reconnect.
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Dave Regan Pushed the Billionaire Tax Hard. Now He Faces a Union Inquiry.

Par : Laurel Rosenhall
The tax initiative is the most ambitious proposal that Dave Regan has ever qualified for the California ballot. Some Democrats hope it will be his final one.

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Dave Regan has long been known for playing hardball in California politics, and he has made numerous enemies along the way.
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Arms Race Intensifies in Korea as the North Is Emboldened by Russia Alliance

Par : Choe Sang-Hun
A rare escalation this month exposed the increasingly lethal arsenals the two Koreas are building up across the world’s most heavily fortified border.

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A photograph provided by North Korean state media showing the leader, Kim Jong-un, and his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, overseeing the firing of an intermediate-range missile from the country’s east coast during a drill in October.
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Gadi Eisenkot Couldn’t Be More Unlike Netanyahu. Can He Beat Him?

Par : David M. Halbfinger · Natan Odenheimer and Johnatan Reiss
Mr. Eisenkot, an ex-military chief leading in the polls, calls the Israeli prime minister an “anti-leader.” But his low-key campaigning style is worrying supporters.

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Gadi Eisenkot, the leading candidate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a campaign event in Haifa, Israel, last month.
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Trump Rallies to Shore Up Iowa Senate Race for Ashley Hinson

Par : Chris Cameron and Bayliss Wagner
The president visited Sioux City, part of deep-red Western Iowa, in an effort to boost GOP turnout in a state that was once solidly Republican.

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President Trump.
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Ocasio-Cortez Says Democrats Should Stand Up for Trans Americans

Par : Tim Balk
At an event in Maine, an audience member told the New York progressive that “a lot of trans people in America feel that we have been abandoned by the Democratic Party.”

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York at a town hall-style event in Portland, Maine, with Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate nominee in the state, on Thursday.
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Trump Administration Asks Appeals Court to Intervene in California Mail Ballot Suit

Par : Zach Montague
The Justice Department sought to jump-start a lawsuit aimed at compelling the state to not count as many as 20,000 mail ballots it claims were sent to noncitizens.

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Voters casting ballots in the 2024 election.
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Video by Left-Wing Group Claims Lindsey Graham Paid Men for Sex

Par : Annie Karni
Progressive activists released a video of three men making the allegations about the South Carolina Republican, who died in July. The New York Times has not confirmed their claims.

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Senator Lindsey Graham on Capitol Hill in 2022.
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Pete Ricketts’s Wealth Puts Class at the Center of Nebraska’s Senate Race

Par : Emma Schartz
In a year when the wealth of the rich soared while workers lost ground to inflation, class has become political, especially in the Nebraska Senate race.

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A campaign sign for the Senate candidate Dan Osborn adorns a stretch of farmland in Nebraska.
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The Ad Dividing the Republican Party

Par : Jess Bidgood
Trump got behind a much-criticized spot in the Ohio governor’s race.

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President Trump with Vivek Ramaswamy at a rally in Ohio this month.
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What to Know About the Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Citizenship

Par : Ernesto Londoño
The Justice Department is reviewing whether Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, broke the law when she became a U.S. citizen decades ago. Here’s what we know.

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Representative Ilhan Omar at the U.S. Capitol this year.
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Bernie Sanders Gives $1 Million to Bolster El-Sayed and Counter AIPAC in Michigan

Par : Shane Goldmacher
The transfer came a day after the news that the pro-Israel lobby was planning to contribute as much as $9 million to defeat the Democratic nominee for Senate.

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Senator Bernie Sanders during a rally for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit in July.
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Supreme Court Allows Blanket Ban on Student IDs at Polls in New Hampshire

Par : Abbie VanSickle
The justices had been asked to weigh in on a New Hampshire directive that prevented election officials from considering student IDs to prove a voter’s identity.

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The ruling was the latest in a string of election-related emergency actions by the justices in the lead-up to November.
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What Dueling Visits by Ocasio-Cortez and Manchin Say About Maine’s Senate Race

Par : Tim Balk
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican in a tight race, is keying her closing pitch to the middle, while her progressive challenger, Troy Jackson, is seeking to excite the left.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, left, campaigned for Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, this week, while former Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, right, stumped for Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
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Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Corey Lewandowski

Par : Glenn Thrush · Tyler Pager and Nicholas Nehamas
The details of the inquiry remain unclear, but it is one of the rare instances in which a Trump ally or appointee has been investigated for potential wrongdoing during the president’s second term.

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Corey Lewandowski, who served as President Trump’s first campaign manager a decade ago, worked closely with Kristi Noem, the former homeland security secretary.
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Four Takeaways From the Debate for Wisconsin Governor

Par : Julie Bosman
The Democrat, David Crowley, and the Republican, Tom Tiffany, sparred over taxes, abortion, data centers and legalizing marijuana in their only debate before the election.

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David Crowley, the Democratic candidate for governor, and Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate, debated at Marquette University Law School on Wednesday.
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Hakeem Jeffries Launches Final Midterm Sprint for House Majority

Par : Annie Karni
The minority leader plans to kick off campaigning in a Hudson Valley, New York, district that is one of the most competitive in the country.

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader who has led Democrats in the House since 2022, is planning to campaign in competitive districts around the country.
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Key Trump Health Adviser Resigns Ahead of Midterm Elections

Par : Christina Jewett
Calley Means, who helped unite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump, pushed food reforms but grew frustrated with stalled progress on the MAHA agenda.

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Calley Means resigned from the Trump administration on Thursday.
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In the Wake of Riots, the French Authorities Ban Some Protests

Par : Catherine Porter
President Emmanuel Macron said the move was necessary “so that calm prevails.”

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Police officers in Paris on Tuesday during a partial curfew put in place after last weekend’s demonstrations.
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What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?

Par : Karla Adam and Dustin Volz
A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

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A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine Calls on Ramaswamy to Remove Acton Attack Ad

Par : Campbell Robertson and Bayliss Wagner
The ad featuring the estranged mother of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton, has been widely criticized, though President Trump strongly defended it.

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Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio during a National Governors Association meeting in Washington this year.
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Louise Lucas, Powerful Virginia Lawmaker, Indicted Over Marijuana Business

Par : Devlin Barrett and Campbell Robertson
L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat from Portsmouth, was the focus of F.B.I. searches earlier this year.

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L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who is the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond this year.
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In Wake of Riots, French Authorities Ban Some Protests

Par : Catherine Porter
President Emmanuel Macron said the move was necessary “so that calm prevails.”

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Police officers in Paris on Tuesday during a partial curfew put in place after last weekend’s demonstrations.
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International Criminal Court Wins E.U.’s Top Human Rights Prize

Par : Koba Ryckewaert
The win is a show of support for the International Criminal Court as the Trump administration moves to thwart its work.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague last month.
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