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Small Business Administration Will Soon Exhaust Disaster Loan Funds

Small Business Administration Will Soon Exhaust Disaster Loan Funds

Madeleine Ngo
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Politics

The agency has less than $100 million for new loans, according to officials, while Hurricane Milton is headed toward Florida and after Hurricane Helene devastated much of the Southeast.


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Antisemitism and Threats Directed at Officials Over Storm Response

Antisemitism and Threats Directed at Officials Over Storm Response

Eduardo Medina
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Politics

Some online posts have threatened violence against FEMA officials. A research group found that the X platform has been one of the main drivers of misinformation.


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Afghan Man Charged With Plotting Election Day Attack on Behalf of ISIS

Afghan Man Charged With Plotting Election Day Attack on Behalf of ISIS

Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman
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Politics

It is not clear where the man intended to stage the attack, though the criminal complaint said he sought to inflict mass casualties on behalf of the Islamic State.


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Harris Cracks a Beer With Colbert and Talks Gaza, Trump and Putin

Harris Cracks a Beer With Colbert and Talks Gaza, Trump and Putin

Nicholas Nehamas
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Politics

In a chat with Stephen Colbert, Kamala Harris suggested the Gaza war was unlikely to end soon, even as she urged optimism. And she condemned Donald Trump over reports that he sent rare Covid test machines to Russia.


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Tim Walz Says the Electoral College ‘Needs to Go’

Tim Walz Says the Electoral College ‘Needs to Go’

Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Reid J. Epstein
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Politics

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota suggested at fund-raisers that he backed switching to a national popular vote. His spokesman clarified that this was not the position of Kamala Harris’s campaign.


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Slotkin and Rogers Attack Each Other’s Records in Michigan Senate Debate

Slotkin and Rogers Attack Each Other’s Records in Michigan Senate Debate

Karoun Demirjian
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Politics

Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, and former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican, had bitter exchanges over abortion, war and China.


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Inside the Battle for America’s Most Consequential Battleground State: Pennsylvania

Inside the Battle for America’s Most Consequential Battleground State: Pennsylvania

Shane Goldmacher
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Politics

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pouring more money, time and energy into Pennsylvania than anywhere else, waging an ad war as they crisscross the state.


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Trump Holds Up Transition Process, Skirting Ethics and Fund-Raising Rules

Trump Holds Up Transition Process, Skirting Ethics and Fund-Raising Rules

Ken Bensinger
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Politics

Donald J. Trump has so far opted out of the official planning for a government handover, a move that allows him to avoid disclosing his donors to his transition effort.


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Months Before Ethiopian Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier’s Questions

Months Before Ethiopian Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier’s Questions

Mark Walker and James Glanz
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Politics

Ethiopian Airlines appeared to foresee the deadly confusion its pilots would face if flawed software in the Boeing 737 Max failed. Boeing chose not to provide the guidance that the carrier was seeking.


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Five People Die in Plane Crash on Catalina Island, Near Los Angeles

Five People Die in Plane Crash on Catalina Island, Near Los Angeles

Derrick Bryson Taylor
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Politics

The wreckage of a twin-engine plane was found Tuesday night after the authorities received an emergency notification and GPS coordinates from a cellphone.


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Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics

Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics

Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Politics

The merger of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald J. Trump campaigns puts the so-called medical freedom movement on the cusp of real power in Washington, with a new slogan: “Make America Healthy Again.”


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Trump Repeatedly Referred to Maine’s Female Governor as a Man

Trump Repeatedly Referred to Maine’s Female Governor as a Man

Maggie Astor
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Politics

On a call with supporters, the former president incorrectly used masculine pronouns six times while referring to Janet Mills.


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Kamala Harris Has Raised $1 Billion Since Entering Presidential Race

Kamala Harris Has Raised $1 Billion Since Entering Presidential Race

Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman
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Politics

No presidential candidate is believed to have ever raised so much money so fast after entering a race. The campaign has stopped trumpeting its fund-raising totals to keep Democrats from becoming complacent.


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Sarasota Residents Who Stayed Behind Brace for Hurricane Milton’s Impact

Sarasota Residents Who Stayed Behind Brace for Hurricane Milton’s Impact

Patricia Mazzei
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Politics

While Hurricane Milton’s path was in flux as it approached Florida, the Gulf Coast city of some 55,000 seemed sure to receive a blow.


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Supreme Court Wrestles With Case of Oklahoma Death Row Inmate

Supreme Court Wrestles With Case of Oklahoma Death Row Inmate

Adam Liptak
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Politics

Some justices said the court was powerless to grant relief to the inmate, Richard Glossip. Others seemed ready to order a new trial or at least an evidentiary hearing.


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