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A Groundbreaking Ship That Sank in Lake Superior in 1892 Is Discovered

On Aug. 30, 1892, the Western Reserve, a state-of-the-art ship en route to Minnesota, found itself in the middle of a gale in...

Schumer Will Clear the Way for G.O.P. Spending Bill, Breaking With His Party

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a...

Elon Musk Met With Head of National Security Agency This Week, Spokesman Says

Elon Musk met with the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command this week, an N.S.A. spokesman said on Thursday,...

Death Toll in 1999 Columbine School Shooting Climbs to 14 With Homicide Ruling

For more than a quarter of a century, the death toll in the Columbine High School mass shooting, a statistic intertwined with the...

Jack Teixeira, Who Pleaded Guilty in Leaked Documents Case, Asks Trump for Leniency

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who pleaded guilty last year to leaking military secrets said on Thursday that he had broken the law...

Trump Wants to Speed Up Deportations With Alien Enemies Act: What to Know

President Trump is planning to invoke an obscure wartime authority in the coming days to rapidly accelerate the deportation of immigrants from the...

State Senator Didn’t Use Runway Lights Before Fatal Plane Crash, U.S. Says

A 2023 plane crash that killed a state senator from North Dakota, his wife and two of their children was most likely caused...

Larry Buendorf, U.S. Agent Who Saved President Ford, Dies at 87

Larry Buendorf, the Secret Service agent who, by wresting a handgun away from Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, was credited with saving the life of...

Trump’s Large-Scale Layoffs Plans So Far: What to Know

Resignations. Retirements. Firings.And now large-scale layoffs, as agencies faced a Thursday deadline to turn in their plans for executing the next phase of...

Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90

Ron Nessen, who as President Gerald R. Ford’s press secretary from 1974 to 1977 pledged a new era of openness after the Watergate...

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