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Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack

President Biden paused the shipment last week, officials confirmed, a sign of the growing rift between the U.S. and Israel over the war in Gaza.

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  1. People standing near an impact crater in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
    Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  2. Fleeing Rafah on a donkey-drawn cart.
    Hatem Khaled/Reuters
  3. An Israeli soldier preparing to launch a drone in southern Israel, near the border fence with the Gaza Strip.
    Abir Sultan/EPA, via Shutterstock
  4. Displaced Palestinians arrive in Deir al Balah in central Gaza after leaving Rafah.
    Abdel Kareem Hana/Associated Press
  5. Women mourning those killed in Rafah.
    Mohammed Salem/Reuters
  6. Israeli army soldiers and their vehicles in southern Israel, near the border with the Gaza Strip.
    Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  7. Receiving food at a charity kitchen in Rafah.
    Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Analysis

With a Gaza Cease-Fire in the Balance, Netanyahu Maneuvers to Keep Power

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is trying to reassure his many critics. Here’s a look at what he is confronting.

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The DailyAudio

A plan to remake the Middle East is being negotiated behind the scenes.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet the C.I.A. director, as concern rises about Rafah.

 

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The HeadlinesAudio

A paused arms shipment to Israel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health record and more.

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France Says It Built the Olympics Safely. Migrant Workers Don’t Count.

Undocumented workers played a larger and more dangerous role in delivering the Games than President Emmanuel Macron’s administration acknowledges.

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A construction site.

Stormy Daniels Delivers Intense Testimony in Trump’s Trial: 6 Takeaways

A long day on the stand put Ms. Daniels’s credibility to the test as defense lawyers challenged her motives.

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After recounting a story of a tryst with Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels will return to the stand on Thursday.

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A Cicada’s Guide to Periodical Romance

It may sound like a mosh pit out there. But to the participants, mating is a delicate, sonorous affair, fraught with potential missteps — and fungal zombies.

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“Like lobster or shrimp”: For edible-bug enthusiasts, the cicadas are a delicious opportunity.

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Are you afraid of cicadas? This entomologist wants to change that.

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How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and Crowded Schools

In a worsening crisis, Haitians have been forced to flee their homes in the face of gang onslaughts, and the international response has failed to keep up.

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FTX Customers Are Poised to Recover All Funds Lost in Collapse

The announcement by bankruptcy lawyers was a landmark in the effort to recover the $8 billion that disappeared when the cryptocurrency exchange imploded.

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Bill Hwang, whose hedge fund, Archegos, collapsed in 2021, is about to go on trial to face fraud charges.

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Russia Hits Ukrainian Power Plants, Further Straining Energy System

The assault, a day after Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a fifth term as Russia’s president, was part of a campaign to cut off power to Ukraine’s civilians.

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House to Examine K-12 Schools in Latest Antisemitism Hearing

After focusing on universities, a House subcommittee will question school district leaders from New York, California and Maryland.

 

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Mr. Kennedy, the presidential candidate, has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pictured from the shoulders up, wearing a suit and looking off to the side.

Using Cartoonish Accents, J.F.K.’s Grandson Insults and Mocks Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In an escalation of a family feud, Jack Schlossberg suggested that his cousin, the presidential candidate, was not too smart and a liar.

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Having Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the presidential ballot in Texas could have unintended consequences for Senator Ted Cruz.

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For Bulgarian Voters, It’s Groundhog Day, Again

The nation faces its sixth general election in three years. “I’ve done this so many times people have started to feel pity for me,” one legislator said.

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Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can’t You?

Meet the schemers and savers obsessed with ending their careers as early as possible.

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Why the Campus Protests Are So Troubling

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Manuel Bayo Gisbert

I Was Kidnapped in Mexico and Survived. My Story Is One of Many.

Pamela Paul

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He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.

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Mireille Silcoff

At the Met Gala, Celebrities Are Nearly Nude. Are We Not Aroused?

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Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens

A Thank-You Note to the Campus Protesters

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Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat

Can Conservative and Liberal Catholics Coexist?

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Thomas B. Edsall

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The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right Isn’t Closing

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Karim Sadjadpour

How Iran and Israel Are Unnatural Adversaries

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The MorningNewsletter

An Overlooked War

In Myanmar, poets, doctors and lawyers have traded life in the cities for jungle warfare.

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Macron Adds a Personal Touch to His Diplomacy With China

President Emmanuel Macron of France took Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to his childhood haunts high in the Pyrenees, hoping to forge a bond.

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Kim Ki-Nam, Chief Propagandist in North Korea for Decades, Dies at 94

Mr. Kim, who served under all three generations of the country’s ruling family, was likened to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister.

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Rolling Blackouts Hit Several Cities as Heat Wave Scorches Mexico

Cities were plunged into darkness as scorching temperatures strained the national energy grid.

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Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League Final? Nobody Saw It Coming.

In the Bundesliga, the team is limping home in fifth place. But in the Champions League, the team’s players have fire in their eyes and miles of heart.

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Canada Re-Criminalizes Public Drug Use in British Columbia

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