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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Pardoning Hunter complicates the legacy that Joe Biden envisioned.

Pardoning Hunter complicates the legacy Biden envisioned

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the desultory final days of his administration, Joe Biden finds himself repudiated, even by some Democrats, as the president who refused to step aside and who pardoned his son.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Difficult as it was to achieve, the ceasefire in Lebanon was the easy part. The obstacles to peace beyond it, are formidable, and any regional realignment is likely to fall to Donald Trump.

The obstacles to peace beyond Lebanon are formidable

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Difficult as it was to achieve, the ceasefire in Lebanon was the easy part. The obstacles to peace beyond it, are formidable, and any regional realignment is likely to fall to Donald Trump.

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Insurgents say they have breached the city of Aleppo amid clashes with Syrian soldiers.

Fears civil war will reignite as Syrian rebels reach Aleppo

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Syrian rebels reached the major city of Aleppo, according to the fighters, raising fears that the nation’s long-running civil war is reigniting with an intensity not seen in years.

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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Mr. Trump, do you realise how much the world has changed since you were president?

Mr. Trump, do you realise how much the world has changed?

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidence, I suspect he is now thinking: ‘What could be so different? I’ve got this’.

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President-elect Donald Trump prevailed with one of the smallest margins of victory in the popular vote since the 19th century and generated little of the coattails of a true landslide.

The ‘landslide’ that wasn’t: Trump team pumps up narrow win

Donald Trump's campaign has repeatedly heralded his ‘landslide’ win. But by traditional numeric measures, Trump prevailed with one of the smallest margins of victory in the popular vote since the 19th century.

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Faced with unconventional and disruptive proposals, investors are figuring out how to place their bets.

Investors brace for high-risk, high-reward Trump market

Markets abhor uncertainty. That bit of Wall Street wisdom helps explain their ebb and flow since Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day, and even earlier.

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The ascendance of Donald Trump as president-elect while Ukraine suffers losses on the battlefield means less room for Ukraine to manoeuvre.

What Trump’s vow to end the war means for Ukraine

The ascendance of Donald Trump as president-elect while Ukraine suffers losses on the battlefield means less room for Ukraine to manoeuvre.

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Senior advisers to Donald Trump, from left, Steven Cheung, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, at the former president’s campaign stop in Lititz, Pa in November.

Inside the lobbying career of Trump’s new chief of staff

Donald Trump’s second presidential transition is moving quickly, in part because of the leadership of a veteran operative who until earlier this year represented interests of the sort he once pledged to curb.

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Mourners walk with a coffin during a funeral for four people killed in the pager attack, in Beirut, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

Is something holding Israel and Iran back from a bigger war?

It has been nearly a month since Israel sent more than 100 jets and drones to strike Iranian military bases, and the world is still waiting to see how Iran will respond.

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The move could fundamentally alter the $2 trillion company’s business and reshape competition on the internet.

US proposes breakup of Google to fix search monopoly

The Justice Department has asked a Federal court to force Google to sell Chrome, its popular web browser, a move that could fundamentally alter the $2 trillion company’s business and reshapethe internet.

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DAVID FRENCH: If Trump’s Cabinet picks help him usher in the chaos that is the water in which he swims, then the question won’t be whether voters rebuke MAGA, but how much damage it does before it fails again.

How Donald Trump is already starting to fail

DAVID FRENCH: If Trump’s Cabinet picks help him usher in the chaos that is the water in which he swims, then the question won’t be whether voters rebuke MAGA, but how much damage it does before it fails again.

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Roxie, a baby red panda that died at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland.

‘Very sad’: Stress from fireworks killed baby red panda

‘It’s very sad to have lost Roxie at such a particularly young age’.

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Looking back, the seeds of Democrats’ 2024 wipeout were planted in the quasi-victory of 2022. Three things happened in the aftermath.

The Democratic blind spot that wrecked 2024

EZRA KLEIN: Looking back, the seeds of the Democrats’ 2024 wipeout were planted in the quasi-victory of 2022. Three things happened in the aftermath.

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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: A Trump administration could cause a new and very different set of red lines to be crossed if it pulls back from NATO or expresses any diminished willingness to protect longtime allies.

Trump had it easy the first time — Now it gets complicated

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: A Trump administration could cause a new and very different set of red lines to be crossed if it pulls back from NATO or expresses any diminished willingness to protect longtime allies.

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A man in Tehran reads a newspaper story about Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Many former officials, pundits and newspaper editorials in Iran have called for the government to engage with Trump in the week since his reelection. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

Iran debates whether it could make a deal with Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Despite a charged history, many former officials, pundits and newspaper editorials in Iran have openly called for the government to engage with Donald Trump in the week since his reelection.

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