170 Migrants Deported From U.S. Agree to Return to Home Countries, Panama Says

Days after the United States sent 300 migrants from Asia and the Middle East to Panama, a Panamanian official said that more than half had agreed to be deported to their countries of origin.

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Anne Marie Hochhalter, Paralyzed in Columbine Shooting, Dies at 43

Fiercely independent, she publicly discussed the long-term effects of gun violence and spoke of forgiveness.

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Senate Confirms Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary

A longtime Wall Street executive, Mr. Lutnick will take on a broad portfolio that includes defending U.S. business interests and overseeing restrictions on technology exports.

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Will That Asteroid Strike Earth? Risk Level Rises to Highest Ever Recorded.

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.

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Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer, Starts Her Own Company

Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up.

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Court Rules Against Andrew Cuomo’s Attempt to Dismantle Ethics Panel

New York’s highest court rejected the former governor’s push to undermine an ethics commission that had been investigating a $5.1 million book deal he received for a memoir.

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Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions

A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”

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Family Files Claims Against U.S. for Washington Plane Crash

The filings over the collision of an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter last month appear to be the first such claim and signal the start of a long legal fight.

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What We Know About the Kentucky Floods

Storms have overwhelmed the state in recent years. On top of the floods, snow is expected soon.

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Thousands Protest on Presidents’ Day, Calling Trump a Tyrant ‘King’

Protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump’s agenda took the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol.

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