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Trump Team Leaves Behind an Alliance in Crisis

After a whirlwind tour by Trump officials, European leaders felt certain they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the U.S.

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Left Out of Ukraine Talks, Europe Races to Organize a Response

The Trump administration’s push for negotiations without Ukrainian involvement leaves European allies with no clear role.

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Two rows of men sit on either side of a table. Ukrainian and American flags stand in the background. — Matthias Schrader/Associated Press

Ukraine Won’t Accept a Deal It Didn’t Help Negotiate, Zelensky Says

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Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.

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In Stopping Adams Case, Career Lawyer Sought to Stave Off Deeper Crisis

A high-stakes decision for public corruption prosecutors at the Justice Department revealed a generational difference.

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Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’

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As Trump Targets Research, Scientists Share Grief and Resolve to Fight

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Analysis

How Trump’s One-for-One Tariff Plan Threatens the Global Economy

In starting a process to impose reciprocal tariffs on American trading partners, President Trump is sowing uncertainty and risking inflation.

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Who Controls the Gulf of Mexico?

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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Overshadows Rubio’s First Mideast Visit

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel amid political chaos over President Trump’s proposal for Gaza.

How a Network of Amateur Sleuths Helps Rescue Women Kidnapped by ISIS

No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls. Instead, they need relatives, armchair detectives and activists like Pari Ibrahim.

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Venting at Democrats and Fearing Trump, Liberal Donors Pull Back Cash

Demoralized donors are frustrated with Democrats and worried about retribution from President Trump. Their frugality has left liberal groups struggling.

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The glass front of an office building in Washington, with the words “Center for American Progress” on the window. — Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press

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On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters

After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.

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Ozempic has been a blockbuster drug by any measure, but in the beginning, there was just a strange lizard, the Gila monster, with a flair for intermittent fasting.
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The lizard’s venom contains a digestion-slowing hormone that helped scientists create the popular medication. Now Pebbles, a Gila monster, needs medicine to help her fight a life-threatening parasite.
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Tim Cernak, a pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Michigan, makes medicines for ailing plants and animals, like Pebbles.
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Dr. Cernak is trying to isolate the parasite, sequence its genome and, if all goes well, find a drug that can destroy it.
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“To me it’s this full circle thing. We’re attempting to solve the ultimate health inequity.”
Dr. Cernak thought it was time for pharmaceutical chemists to work on behalf of the biodiversity that they had long benefitted from.
Emily Elconin for The New York Times

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3 Parrots, 1 Shared Wall, 2 Ruptured Lives

How noise complaints in a Manhattan co-op led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.

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A green parrot with a yellow head seen in a triple exposure — Oliver Farshi for The New York Times

She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death

In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.

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A woman in a coral-colored sweater standing in front of a leaf-covered brick wall. — Melissa Schriek for The New York Times

At Least 9 Dead in South After Rainstorm Pounds the Region

A powerful storm moved through Kentucky and other parts of the South, leaving flooded communities and roads in its wake.

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Damaging Winds to Lash the East Coast as Part of Powerful Winter Storm

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A red vehicle is seen mostly submerged under brown floodwaters covering a road. — Warren County Sheriff's Office, via Associated Press

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The Power Struggle Over a College Athlete’s Medical Well-Being

When the former team doctor for Penn State football sued for wrongful termination, the case offered a rare look into coaches interfering with medical advice.

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A portrait of Dr. Scott Lynch sitting an athletic training facility. — Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times

How to Watch the ‘S.N.L.’ 50th Anniversary Special

The venerable sketch show is throwing itself a big star-studded party on Sunday night. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

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Our Comedy Columnist Reflects on 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Opinion

Ezra Klein

The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours

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Tim Donahue

Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.

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David French

The Disrupter in Chief Can’t End a War Like This

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Daniel Richman

The Justice Department’s Dangerous Game Will Backfire

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Timothy White

My Father Was a Conservative Evangelical Pastor. Then I Came Out.

Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes

This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them

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Caitlin Rivers

Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, Most Americans Want to Get Their Shots

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Elizabeth Spiers

The 1980s Are Back, and Not in a Good Way

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Bonnie S. Glaser

What America Can Gain if Trump Goes to China

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Curtis Sittenfeld

On S.N.L. the Jokes Aren’t Even the Half of It

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Maureen Dowd

Who Will Stand Up To Trump at High Noon?

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Nicholas Kristof

Not Quite a Unified Theory of Trumpism, but Still an Alarming Pattern

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