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Ship operators already faced severe risks in navigating the Gulf region, and now the danger is higher as Houthi militias assert control in the Red Sea.

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The news briefly pushed the price of oil to $110 a barrel over heightened fears of widening clashes in the Middle East.

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At a ceremony in Lower Manhattan, elected officials and loved ones of those killed in the 2001 terror attacks gathered in solemn remembrance.

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Catch up on today’s biggest stories.

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Photos from lower Manhattan today of firefighters, police, mourners and flags.

President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms.

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After the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a congressional map used in the primary, election officials, candidates and voters are scrambling to adjust before November.

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A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.

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Dozens of people on yoga mats or in the grass in front of a house with Greek life lettering. Many are holding their elbows out and their hands behind their heads.

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For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.

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Photograph by Renee Cox. Styled by Zara Mirkin; © Jeff Koons. Photo: Dieter Scherdtle, Kassel; © Jeff Koons. Photo: Schaub/Höffner, Köln © Taschen GMBH

The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely divided.

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The rapper had been accused of orchestrating a plot to kill a rival in an ambush that resulted in the death of another man.

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Wearing a white tank top over a white T-shirt and dark sunglasses, Lil Durk stands on a field that is blurred in the background.

The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said.

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A boy in a yellow jacket and hooded sweatshirt kneels on the overturned hull of a fishing boat as a rescuer in yellow waterproof gear reaches for him.

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The only fraternal organization for women special operations veterans held a gala to mark the wars that began 25 years ago. It came as the Pentagon questions women’s roles in the military.

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