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MLB adds Negro League stats, stirs record books

Major League Baseball is officially incorporating Negro Leagues statistics of more than 2,300 players, shaking up its own record books in the process.

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Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek

Trump’s Hush-Money Case Heads to the Jury: Takeaways From Closing Arguments

Defense lawyers and prosecutors tried strategy and stagecraft to sway jurors. The panel of 12 New Yorkers will get the case Wednesday morning.

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Mavs rule Lively out for Game 4; Kleber available

Mavericks rookie center Dereck Lively II is out for Tuesday's Game 4 vs. the Timberwolves while Maxi Kleber is listed as available.

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Clint Rainey

Adam Neumann ‘shut out’ of WeWork buyback after company accepts a bid from Masa and former Softbank pals

Rebuffed, founder Neumann slammed the plan to go with Softbank’s offer—which was $200 million less than his own—as ‘unrealistic and unlikely to succeed.’

With two days until WeWork is expected to emerge from bankruptcy, Adam Neumann has written off his fantasy of reacquiring the company he left in crisis. (To clarify, he left a crisis behind at WeWork, he did not leave in one himself; Neumann reportedly became about a billion dollars richer.) Now saddled with loads of debt,...

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Bret Stephens

Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?

Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.

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Katrina Miller

Manhattanhenge 2024 Live Video: When and Where to Watch

The annual event brings New Yorkers together to celebrate longer days, warmer weather and epic summer sunsets.

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Vimal Patel and Anemona Hartocollis

Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the University

The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

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Emma Goldberg

Columbia Grads Reflect on How the Campus Protests Have Shaped Them

As students in Columbia’s class of 2024 received their diplomas, many of them were grappling with what intense activism on campus would mean to their futures.

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Tania Ganguli

Charles Barkley Has Thoughts on the Future of ‘Inside the NBA’

Next season could be the last for TNT’s influential and beloved studio show, and Charles Barkley, for one, will not be going quietly.

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Matt Stevens

Who Plotted to Sell Graceland? An Identity Thief Raises His Hand.

A person using an email for the company seeking to foreclose on the former home of Elvis Presley says his ring was behind the threat to sell the beloved landmark.

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Elisabetta Povoledo

Pope Francis Apologizes After Reports That He Used an Anti-Gay Slur

Francis’ remark came as he spoke against admitting gay men to seminaries during what was supposed to be a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops last week.

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Chris Cameron

R.F.K. Jr. Denounces the Removal of Confederate Statues

The independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a recent podcast that he had a “visceral reaction” to the removal of statues glorifying Confederate leaders.

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Michael Wines

Democrats Adopt Nomination Plan to Allow Biden on the Ohio Ballot

Party leaders said they would nominate the president via a virtual roll call of delegates before the national convention, overcoming a glitch that had threatened to keep him off the November ballot.

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Michael C. Bender and Patricia Mazzei

Marco Rubio Wants to Be Trump’s Vice President. He Doesn’t Want to Audition.

The last time the Florida senator lived in Donald J. Trump’s orbit he was mocked and defeated. As he returns, he’s trying to do it on his terms.

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Jodi Kantor

Inside the Clash That Prompted the Alitos’ Upside-Down Flag

Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.

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Zolan Kanno-Youngs

U.S. Officials Say Deadly Rafah Airstrike Did Not Cross Biden’s Red Line

The deaths were “devastating,” a White House spokesman said, but the scale of the attack was not enough to change U.S. policy.

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Cassandra Vinograd, Hiba Yazbek and Thomas Fuller

Israel Pushes Into Rafah as Displaced Palestinians Search for Safety

The Israeli military said it had deployed additional combat troops to the southern Gaza Strip, even as a growing chorus of voices demand an end to the fighting.

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Reid J. Epstein, Nate Schweber, Neil Vigdor and Michael Gold

Robert De Niro, as Biden Surrogate, Says Trump ‘Absolutely’ Should Go to Jail

Seeking to troll Donald Trump outside his Manhattan trial, the Biden campaign held a news conference with the actor and two former Capitol Police officers. Mr. De Niro veered off script.

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