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US President Donald Trump speaks about healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2026.
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Trump heads to U.N. looking for wins after a rough week
Franco Ordoñez
The past couple of weeks have been particularly challenging for Trump with a series of legal and political setbacks.
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Sullivan County Care Center to remain open temporarily, says Ulster County Judge
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Western Massachusetts divestment resolution speaks to broader debate about Israel
Sam Dingman
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Verdict reached in trial of man accused of shooting 3 Palestinian students
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The family of Robert Brooks Sr. and their attorney hold a news conference on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. Pictured, from left, are attorney Steve Schwarz, Robert Brooks Jr., Jared Ricks and attorney Elizabeth Mazur.
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Family of Robert Brooks says they'll use settlement money from the state to pursue prison reforms
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Apple growers confront climate change, fuel challenges for 2026 harvest

New York Public Media
This stock image shows a wine section in a grocery store.
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New York convenience stores and bodegas join grocery giants’ push to sell wine, liquor
Jon Campbell
For years, big grocers and retailers haven’t been able to get wine in their stores. Now they’re thinking even bigger.
This is the front of a fire truck with the name of the town, Ossining, across the front. The fire truck is in a brick garage with another fire truck next to it.
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Volunteer firefighters, lawmakers ask Hochul to sign tax credit bill
Grant Ashley
This image provided by the New York State Attorney General's office shows body camera footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, 43, at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County on Dec. 9, 2024.
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Family of man beaten to death by NY prison guards to receive $24 million
Jimmy Vielkind
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for New York governor, greets Rick Sabourin of Hamlin on Sept. 18, 2026, in Greece before holding a news conference.
Beth Adams
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WXXI News
Blakeman slams Hochul's energy rebates and vows to lift fracking ban
Beth Adams
NPR News
Yemen's Houthi armed forces patrol as Yemeni prisoners loyal to the Houthi authorities arrive in the capital Sanaa on Sep. 12, after being released on the west coast where they were being held by Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces.
Mohammed Huwais
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Houthis try to push deeper into western Yemen, upending life, witnesses tell NPR
Aya Batrawy
As the U.S. conflict with Iran drags, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have opened a new front, taking new territory and displacing more than 100,000 people.
A clipping of hair labeled as Thomas Jefferson's in the collections of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, his primary home and plantation.
Hugh Talman/Smithsonian
New DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings
Michel Martin, Adriana Gallardo
Tristan Buckmaster is a mathematician at New York University. He poses for a portrait in his office in Manhattan on September 11, 2026. Buckmaster and his collaborator Levent Alpöge have been working on the Navier-Stokes equations. They are clashing with OpenAI, which claims to have cracked the equations.
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AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
Geoff Brumfiel
House Freedom Caucus chair, Rep. Andy Harris, R-MD, spoke to reporters alongside other members of the Freedom Caucus in March amid tense negotiations over government funding.
Samuel Corum
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The House Freedom Caucus has to transform — it could preview the GOP's post-Trump era
Eric McDaniel