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Echoing Their Client, Trump’s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense

Donald Trump demands praise and insists on total innocence, robbing his lawyers of time-honored defense tactics at his hush-money trial.

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Emil Bove stands in a courtroom hallway behind Donald Trump.

Read five takeaways from the second week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial.

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‘Decisions Under Fire’: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow

Some U.S. colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move.

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Columbia University barred from its campus a student protester who said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”

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Israel Makes Progress on Gaza Aid, but Risk of Famine Persists, U.N. Says

The country’s efforts include opening new routes, and more trucks appear to be reaching Gaza, particularly the north.

 

How the U.S. Humanitarian Pier in Gaza Will Work

The project, being assembled by U.S. service members, will involve an elaborate process to provide Gazans with a portion of desperately needed aid.

A Match Made in MAGA: How J.D. Vance Landed on Trump’s Vice President List

The Ohio senator and Donald Trump Jr. have bonded politically and personally, which could factor into former President Trump’s search for a running mate.

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The G.O.P. asked the Secret Service to keep protesters farther away from the party’s national convention in July.

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Trump Has Never Sounded Like This

No major U.S. presidential candidate has talked like Donald Trump now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even himself.

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The Interview

Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to Please

The actress talked to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions.

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Ideas

The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

It’s got a great cast. It looks cinematic. It’s, um … fine. And it’s everywhere.

Weekend Reads

The Essential Joan Didion

Her distinctive prose was tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

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What Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means for His California Case

Harvey Weinstein faced similar sex crimes charges in New York and California, but the arguments used to overturn one case may not help in the other.

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Harvey Weinstein in court in a dark suit.

Suddenly, Chinese Spies Seem to Be Popping Up All Over Europe

A flurry of arrests this week reflects the continent’s newly toughened response to Beijing’s espionage activities and political meddling.

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A Chinese flag in front of a modern gray building.

Putin’s War Will Soon Reach Russians’ Tax Bills

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has signaled an increase in income and corporate taxes that will help finance the war in Ukraine.

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Opinion

Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman

Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh

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Jesse Wegman

Trump’s Immunity Case Was Settled More Than 200 Years Ago

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Lydia Polgreen

The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.

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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie

This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal

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Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat

Taylor Swift Needs to Become Other People

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Toby Kiers

A Simple Act of Defiance Can Improve Science for Women

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Peter Coy

Peter Coy

The Mostly Persuasive Logic Behind the New Ban on Noncompetes

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The Best of Late Night This Week

Trish Bendix
Trish BendixReporting on culture

The hosts spent much of the week discussing former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, including the opening arguments and the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer. They also riffed on Trump being owed an extra $1 billion stake in Truth Social.

Here’s what they had to say →

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