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CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS INDICTMENT

Trump’s path to indictment: ‘Isn’t it better if there are no documents?’

The road to Donald Trump’s first weekend as the nation’s most prominent criminal defendant began in the chaotic days of the presidential transition, after his frenetic drive to overturn the result of the 2020 election he had lost.

By Marc Fisher

In Georgia speech, Trump stares down criminal jeopardy with bluffs and bluster

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Hannah Knowles

Evidence in Trump’s indictment came from inside Mar-a-Lago

By Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany

Trump’s disdain for intelligence rules foretold his indictment

By Shane Harris1 hour ago

Ukrainian service members near the front-line city of Bakhmut on Friday. (Reuters)

Political risks rise for Putin as Ukraine’s counteroffensive begins

There is nervousness among the Russian elite over the firepower of Ukraine’s Western weaponry, insiders say, and it is driving fears that the land bridge Moscow carved across the southeast of Ukraine to Crimea could be severed.

By Catherine Belton and Francesca Ebel

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Ted Kaczynski, who sowed fear and death as the Unabomber, dies at 81

For 17 years, he left a grisly trail of nail- and razor blade-packed pipe bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others.

By Paul W. Valentine

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

By Faiz Siddiqui and Jeremy B. Merrill

Cuba has hosted a Chinese spy station since at least 2019, White House says

By Ellen Nakashima1 hour ago

Man confronts and shouts at Brittney Griner at Dallas airport

By Kareem Copeland

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Medical Mysteries: Why was her sleep so frighteningly out of whack?

For years her sleep was so disrupted she would suddenly drop off in the middle of working or even driving but have insomnia at night. Meds didn't seem to help.

By Sandra G. Boodman

Wendy Sanhai and Mark Madar on their wedding day in 2014. (Krystal Kast)

She hired him as a caregiver for her family. They fell in love.

“I certainly wasn’t expecting to find a life partner when I took the job,” said Mark Madar, who Wendy Sanhai hired as a caregiver for her father and sons.

By Sydney Page

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