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Minnesota Declined to Buy a Prison for $75 Million. D.H.S. Paid $495 Million.

The recent purchase of the prison to hold immigrants is among the acquisitions facing scrutiny in the Trump administration’s mass deportation push.

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The Prairie Correctional Facility was purchased by the Department of Homeland Security to serve as an immigrant detention center in Appleton, Minn.
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Alina Habba’s Husband Ignited Drama in Trump’s Circle. Now He’s Under Scrutiny.

Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders. His story has inconsistencies.

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Turhan Mildon in Kinshasa in 2023.
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Obamacare Dealt Yet Another Blow as Premiums Jump Again

Premiums will increase an average 13 percent next year for millions of Americans, on top of an earlier steep increase. It adds to the problems facing the program, which the Trump administration has weakened.

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The average price of health insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces will rise by 13 percent next year.
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Prosecutors Suggest They May Seek Additional Comey Charges

At a hearing in federal court, prosecutors defended an unusual, 11th-hour criminal case accusing the former F.B.I. director of leaking classified information a decade ago.

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During President Trump’s second term, the Justice Department has pursued James B. Comey without pause.
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Judge Appoints Special Master to Determine if Trump Officials Lied in Golf Course Suit

Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washington’s East Potomac Park.

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A federal judge on Friday called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration concealed its plans to renovate a public golf course at East Potomac Park.
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U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution

The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan.

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At a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, in July.
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The Justice Department’s Unusual Election-Year Activity

Federal prosecutors have targeted President Trump’s political opponents and sued states over election administration just before the midterms. Devlin Barrett, a reporter for The New York Times, explains how this activity is compared with the Justice Department’s usual election-year behavior.
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High Prices Haunt Trump and the GOP on Eve of the Midterms

A backlash over high prices helped Republicans capture a majority in 2024. Now, it may be the source of the party’s own undoing.

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President Trump at a campaign event on Tuesday in Lubbock, Texas, where he talked about the political forces that had propelled his return to office, including high prices.
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Darline Graham Is ‘a Little Nervous.’ Can She Keep South Carolina’s Senate Seat Red?

Polls show the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham in a virtual tie with her Democratic opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews. An upset was unthinkable just a few months ago.

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Senator Darline Graham, is in a final, nail-biting week of campaigning against Dr. Annie Andrews, her Democratic opponent.
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Trump Cancels Rallies in Kansas and Iowa This Weekend

President Trump has been holding hours-long rallies for G.O.P. candidates nearly every day for weeks.

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President Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after a campaign rally in South Carolina.
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Republicans Ramp Up Investigation Into Democratic Plan to Pack Alaska’s Ballot

The Justice Department issued subpoenas, a House oversight committee sought interviews and the state opened its own inquiry into a Democratic plan to recruit a spoiler into a Senate race.

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Republican anger grew on Thursday over a Democratic effort to stack Alaska’s Senate ballot with candidates to siphon votes from the G.O.P. incumbent.
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Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal

Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.

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Alina Habba Mildon, while working as an adviser at the Justice Department, had signed on last year to serve as a general counsel for a company started by the daughter of Julio Herrera Velutini, who was seeking a pardon.
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Trump Administration Pressures California With Expanded Voter Fraud Investigation

The department has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials as part of a widening effort to prove unsubstantiated claims about large numbers of illegal voters in the state.

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Voters casting their ballots in Los Angeles in June. At least two employees of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office received grand jury subpoenas last week.
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Outline Election Demands Sent to States

A federal judge gave the government until noon on Friday to share which states had received letters trying to enlist them in an effort to find evidence of voter fraud.

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Early voting in New York City last week.
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister: We’ll Outlast Trump

The Trump administration is carrying out the most intense pressure campaign on Cuba in decades. The Cuban government says its plan is simply to endure.

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Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla of Cuba during an interview with The New York Times this week.
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