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A billionaire wanted a pardon. His family gave a $50 million deal to Alina Habba, a lawyer with close ties to President Trump. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4i0YjiI

President Trump signed an executive order exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. Read more: https://nyti.ms/3U2z2N9

President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired after less than a week on the job, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4B5XOwR

News Analysis: President Trump proffered sanctions relief for Russian diesel fuel. He called on Ukraine to oust its leader. He pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russian oil facilities. Vladimir Putin, in return, offered more war. Read more: https://nyti.ms/3Wq4tBO A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv. Also, Ukraine said that its military, with no…

Elon Musk has quietly funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups since the start of July, making him by far the largest known donor in the midterms as he tries to save the GOP’s Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4hSm2ld With Election Day three weeks away, here’s who seems…

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a human rights lawyer who led a U.N. commission that said Israel had committed genocide. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4zvs4Q5 Hours later, the Trump administration announced financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court, where she had formerly served as a judge: https://nyti.ms/4hRxpKf

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, has died. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4AUj602 Here’s how she fit into a lineage of female pioneers in computer science: https://nyti.ms/3W02xQp

When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4AOS0HM

President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. The ads have been criticized by Democrats and some Republicans as a possible violation of federal laws: https://nyti.…

Gov. Kathy Hochul has named Letitia James, the New York State attorney general, to serve as special prosecutor to investigate a woman’s allegation that she was raped on Cornell University’s campus in 2024. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4j0JL58 How the student went from shame to seeking justice: https://nyti.ms/3W2jGc5 The men accused in the lawsuit gave varyin…