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La Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela aprobó el jueves una nueva ley destinada a modernizar la deteriorada industria minera del país y a atraer a empresas privadas para que exploten las riquezas inexploradas de oro y minerales esenciales de Venezuela.
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Breaking News: Officials released new drawings and plans for the 250-foot triumphal arch that President Trump wants to build in Washington.
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“Conquesting,” where teenage vandals break into the MTA train operator’s booth, fool around with the control panel — and maybe take a quick joyride —  is revealing an enormous security loophole in New York City's subway system.
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Simply titled Salmon Roasted in Butter, this dish is best made with wild salmon, but it works equally well with the farmed sort. It's astonishingly easy. nyti.ms/4tgGG3b
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From @theathletic.com: The Sidney Crosby-Alex Ovechkin rivalry has captivated hockey fans for 20 years. With Ovechkin’s hockey future uncertain, Crosby shared his thoughts on their bond. "I’ve been thinking about him a lot."
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From @theathletic.com: A new era of sports science, in which women are not viewed through the prism of “little men,” is gradually emerging. nyti.ms/41qvVPj
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“The reason the administration so often does not act coherently is because it cannot,” Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehner write “The world faces something new and baffling and frightening in Mr. Trump’s second term: a psychotic state.”
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From @theathletic.com: The results are in, and the players have spoken. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the clear frontrunner for MVP, but Nikola Jokić and Luka Dončić are close behind. Here's why NBA players think SGA is the most deserving of the award: nyti.ms/4vtNZ99
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So when we learned that the skin-care brand Augustinus Bader partnered with pop icon Dua Lipa, our beauty team’s Slack channel was abuzz with hope, surprise, and excitement. But our testers were largely disappointed. nyti.ms/3Qs2BWd
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In his first 100 days as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani slept very little. He crisscrossed boroughs, shoveled snow, paved concrete, faced crises and transitioned from Albany backbencher to leader of the nation’s largest city. Here are the highlights. nyti.ms/4cdyh95
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The U.S. has made it impossible for many Venezuelans to stay legally, and their own country makes it difficult for them to return. They had their passports confiscated when entering the U.S., under a policy to speed up deportation should they be denied asylum — leaving them unable to fly home.
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Muchos venezolanos en EE. UU. que quieren volver a su país no pueden hacerlo debido a que no cuentan con pasaportes. No hay consulados venezolanos abiertos en EE. UU. para expedir documentos de viaje y las autoridades de ambos países aún no brindan una salida clara.
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Erick Valencia Salazar, cofundador del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, conocido como el 85, se declaró culpable de conspirar para traficar con drogas ante un tribunal federal de Washington. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
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The FAA is making a recruiting push aimed at avid video game players, as the Trump administration seeks to fill a national shortage of air traffic controllers. Lawmakers have said the thousands of vacancies leave the traveling public less safe.  nyti.ms/4st7pIt
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA has created a new category of 2026 World Cup tickets two months before the tournament in an apparent attempt to milk more money out of prime seats.
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“Euphoria” returns to HBO on Sunday for its third season, its first new episode in over four years. Fuzzy on the details? Here's what to know.
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The recipe is actually called World’s Best Chocolate Cake. Alternatively: "world's easiest cake," "most versatile cake" or even ... "your new favorite cake." nyti.ms/4dzZy8g
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From @theathletic.com: Rory McIlroy has been unleashed after a first-round 67. The rest of the Masters field should be terrified, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/4c3nwaM
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How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. nyti.ms/4dFHVUw
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From @theathletic.com: We’re releasing the first set of results from our 2026 Anonymous NBA Player Poll, and we’re devoting this piece to the closely contested 2025-26 MVP debate. nyti.ms/4sunPjQ
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The price of regular gasoline in the U.S. jumped 25% between February and March, the highest monthly percentage increase on record, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.
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Mississippi has seen a stunning turnaround in national test scores in the past decade, even as they have fallen almost everywhere else. On "The Daily," our education reporter explains what the state can teach the rest of the U.S. about how to educate students.
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Weeks after Vice President JD Vance privately warned President Trump of the costs of a full-scale U.S. war with Iran, he is now leading the charge to negotiate an end to the conflict.
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Florida’s attorney general said on Thursday that he had opened an investigation into ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI, in part because the man accused of killing two people at Florida State University last year had consulted with the chatbot leading up to the shooting.
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Breaking News: Inflation surged in March, to an annual pace of 3.3%, as the energy shock from the war in Iran rippled across the U.S. economy.
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With a spike in prices and other economic effects of the war in Iran expected to hit Europe, investors are betting that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England will raise interest rates this year, a marked turnaround from prewar expectations that they would hold or cut rates.
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As a college professor, there’s something gloomy to John McWhorter “about A.I. making it unnecessary to write an essay from the ground up,” he writes. “A.I. will put more people under the sort of suspicion that DEI does.”
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The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday proposed increasing prices and said that it would temporarily suspend some payments to a governmentwide retirement fund as it faces growing financial pressure. If approved, first-class mail “forever” stamps would increase from 78 cents to 82 cents.
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Over the past several years, traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased by nearly 15% on the same days as the biggest album releases from artists like Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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Through art, food, tourism and academics, an increasingly isolated Russia is seeking to cement lasting ties with North Korea.
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