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A Timeline of TikTok’s Evolution, From Dances to BookTok to the Supreme Court

By: Madison Malone Kircher and Remy Tumin
What started as “the dance app” spawned countless memes, launched lucrative careers and shaped entire industries. Here’s how it got here.

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TikTok’s offices in Culver City, Calif.
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U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner

By: Erin Griffith
While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.

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The Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments over the federal law to ban TikTok in the United States.
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What to Know After the Supreme Court Ruling on a Potential TikTok Ban

By: David McCabe
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could result in the app going offline as soon as Sunday.

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The U.S. government has also grown increasingly concerned about Beijing potentially manipulating content on TikTok.
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After 15 Months of War, Gazans Dream of Returning Home

By: Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair
They daydreamed about the people they would hug as soon as the truce took hold, the graves they would visit and the homes they would rebuild.

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Palestinian boys in Gaza City on Thursday, walking among the rubble of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes. A cease-fire is expected to take effect on Sunday.
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Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Certification

By: Peter Baker， Erica L. Green and Annie Karni
President Biden’s remarks were largely a symbolic gesture of support for a century-long campaign to enshrine gender equality into the Constitution. But advocates said they could add heft to a future legal fight.

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President Biden said he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is now part of the Constitution.
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DeWine Names Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to Fill JD Vance’s Senate Seat

By: Katie Glueck and Shane Goldmacher
Vivek Ramaswamy, who was also seen as a possible replacement for the vice president-elect, is widely expected to run for governor of Ohio instead.

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Lt. Gov. Jon Husted at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
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Why Trump’s Second-Term Agenda Could Hinge on the Court He Hates the Most

By: Mattathias Schwartz
Once again, an incoming Trump White House is likely to clash with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But the court in San Francisco has changed since 2017.

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The United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The largest of the country’s 12 regional appeals jurisdictions, the Ninth Circuit covers nine Western states and two territories.
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Eric Adams to Meet With Trump at Mar-a-Lago Today

By: Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Mayor Eric Adams, who has expressed interest in a federal pardon to resolve federal corruption charges, will meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump on Friday afternoon.

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A spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams said the mayor intended to use his visit to Mar-a-Lago to discuss city priorities.
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5 Scenes That Define David Lynch’s ‘Lynchian’ Vision

By: Alissa Wilkinson and Rumsey Taylor
The director developed such a distinct style that “Lynchian” became a go-to term for any sort of surrealism onscreen. These scenes from his work get to the heart of what that term embodied.
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David Lynch’s Style: Lavish Hair, Basic Clothes, Cigarettes

By: Guy Trebay
Lavish hair, nondescript clothes and a smoking habit were hallmarks of the filmmaker David Lynch’s visual persona.

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The filmmaker David Lynch at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. Mr. Lynch, who died on Thursday at 78, had a visual persona characterized by ordinary clothes, cartoonish hair and cigarettes, which he smoked for most of his life.
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How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President

By: Katie Rogers， Adam Entous， Maggie Haberman and Carl Hulse
“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him.

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President Biden’s closest family members and advisers recognized his physical frailty to a greater degree than they have publicly acknowledged and worked together to manage his decline.
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How Trump’s Border Czar Thomas Homan Found MAGA

By: Alexandra Berzon and Hamed Aleaziz
Thomas Homan once defended Obama-era policies and health care for transgender immigrants. Now he’s eyeing hotlines to report undocumented neighbors and arrests of local officials who get in the way.

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Thomas Homan is poised to be the White House “border czar” in Donald J. Trump’s second term, tasked with carrying out what could be the largest deportation of immigrants in American history.
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Senate Pushes Bill to Deport Migrants Charged With Crimes Past a Key Hurdle

By: Maya C. Miller
Ten Democrats joined Republicans in voting to advance the measure in a critical test vote that put it on track for quick enactment under President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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A bill to deport migrants still must win approval in the Senate and return to the House before heading to the White House.
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Why New York Is a Sanctuary City, and How That Could Change Under Trump

By: Luis Ferré-Sadurní
New York’s status as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants has shifted over time. Now, as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to enter office, it may shift once again.

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The barrack-style tent facility used to house migrant families at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn is closing in January.
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In a Fire’s Ruins, Signs of a Previous Loss Leave a Family With Seeds of Hope

By: Billy Witz
The Carrs have made their life’s work honoring the dreams of their precocious son, who died suddenly at 16. They rescued some mementos and others survived when their Altadena home burned to the ground.

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Before they had to flee their home in Altadena, Calif., Darrell and Susan Carr managed to gather some of the art created by their son, Justin, who died when he was 16 years old.
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Los Angeles Fire Chief Faces Calls for Resignation

By: Shawn Hubler and Alexandra Berzon
As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t the city better prepared?

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Kristin Crowley was nominated for chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department in 2022.
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A Georgia Prosecutor Has Long Regretted Sending a Man Away for Life. Can He Fix It?

By: Joshua Sharpe
Weakened by cancer and nagged by his conscience, a former Georgia prosecutor wants the courts to reverse the sentence he demanded for a man who didn’t physically harm anyone in his crimes.

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Kelly Burke, the former district attorney of Houston County, Ga., in his office in Byron, Ga., last month.
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US Debt Faces Record as Trump and GOP Plan Tax Cuts

By: Alan Rappeport
The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that annual deficits will top $21 trillion over the next decade.

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The new budget forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office predict that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion.
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Syrians in Turkey Agonize Over a Return Home

By: Alia Malek
With the Assad regime out of power, millions weigh the decision to go back to their war-torn country.

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Clockwise from bottom right: Areej and Ahmad al-Khaldi with their daughters Shaghaf and Sama, at home in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
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Standing Up to Donald Trump’s Fear Tactics

By: The Editorial Board
There is a real risk that the nation’s institutions will succumb to Trump’s campaign of intimidation and not do their jobs.

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U.S. Reveals Once-Secret Support for Ukraine’s Drone Industry

By: Julian E. Barnes
The development of a new generation of drones has revolutionized how wars are fought, according to U.S. officials.

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U.S. officials say they increased support for Ukrainian drone makers after Ukraine’s counteroffensive in 2023.
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