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Authorities arrested Kevin Zavala-Rivera and seized drugs, firearms and chemicals after dismantling a large-scale methamphetamine conversion lab in a rural area west of Delano on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Kern County SO)

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Gaon Choi of South Korea celebrates winning gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe, during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)

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Chloe Kim, Once a Teenage Phenom, Loses to a New One

Formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass is seen in this image taken in Boston in 1876. (Reuters File)

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US Congress Names Press Gallery for Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Soldiers participate in a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2025. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

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CIA Makes New Push to Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants

Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an announcement on greenhouse gas regulation in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. (Tierney L. Cross/ The New York Times)

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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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