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Undefeated lacrosse team's championship dreams end in controversy after players punished over fake cigars

Ipswich High School's undefeated lacrosse team forfeited its state semifinal after nine players were ruled ineligible over a graduation cigar photo.

Top Pentagon Official Worked Closely With C.I.A. Officer Later Found With Gold Bars

MARK MAZZETTI AND JULIAN E. BARNES

David Rush, the C.I.A. employee, worked on a highly classified China spying program with Stephen A. Feinberg, the Pentagon’s second-ranking official.

Minnesota man marks FBI's first arrest from DOJ's 'Most Wanted Fraudsters' list

FBI Director Kash Patel announces the first arrest from DOJ's Most Wanted Fraudsters list as a Minneapolis grocery owner faces fraud charges.

Burning Cross Is Found in Downtown Chicago Park

JOHN S.W. MACDONALD AND MARK WALKER

No one was injured by the burning cross, which was found in Grant Park, the authorities said. The police and the F.B.I. are investigating.

Ohio approves nearly billion dollar payment after court ruled state shortchanged nursing homes

Ohio lawmakers approved an $875 million package to resolve a Medicaid dispute after the Supreme Court found nursing homes were shortchanged.

The Swiss Team Made a Joke. It Slithered Over People’s Heads.

MADALEINE RUBIN

A map of the San Diego facility that the team is using as its base led people to believe that snakes had infiltrated the premises.

New York Knicks set record for biggest NBA Finals comeback, rally from 29 points down to beat San Antonio Spurs 107-106

Judge considers arguments in challenge to New Mexico's universal childcare program

It is up to a New Mexico judge to settle a challenge over the legality of New Mexico's fledgling universal childcare program, an ambitious and closely watched effort to eliminate daycare costs for all working families

Alabama asks appeals court to let it continue nitrogen gas executions

Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night

Storms knock out power in the Midwest and disrupt Chicago flights

Damaging storms are sweeping through the Midwest, disrupting flights at Chicago airports and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers

A key congressional race in California will test progressives' appeal in a Republican district

Randy Villegas, a populist insurgent, has won the Democratic primary for a House seat representing California's Central Valley

US Embassy in Jordan warns that 'reports indicate missiles, drones or rockets are in Jordanian airspace'

FISA spy program at risk over Trump's pick of Pulte for director of national intelligence

A rare lapse in a law that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence abroad has grown more likely

Toledo police name suspect Ka Nye Taylor in festival shooting that injured 12, hunt second gunman

Toledo police identify Ka Nye Taylor as suspect in Old West End Festival shooting that injured 12 people and are searching for a second gunman.

Trump accuses Democrats of hypocrisy on Platner, despite questions about his own conduct

President Donald Trump is accusing the Democratic Party of hypocrisy for supporting Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner despite his own history of misconduct against women