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Drones Target Moscow in First Attack to Hit Capital’s Civilian Areas

No injuries were reported after the assault by at least eight drones, which came after another Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

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Ukraine charged four members of Russia’s National Guard with war crimes, saying they acted with such impunity that they did not mask their identities.

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Here’s what we know about the drone attack on Moscow.

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MoscowAn apartment complex damaged in a drone attack.
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KyivResidents carrying their dog and belongings after their apartment building was damaged by debris from a drone.
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MoscowPolice officers standing guard near a damaged residential building after a drone attack.
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KyivResidents from the damaged apartment building gathered to fill out paperwork with the police.
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MoscowRussian emergency services near the site of a building damaged in a drone attack.
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KyivA boy sitting among debris from the apartment building where he lives.
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KyivExplosions after an interception of a drone.
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KyivUkrainian air defense intercepting a drone during a Russian attack.
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KyivPatients and medical staff taking shelter in the basement of a hospital.
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Companies Push Prices Higher, Protecting Profits but Adding to Inflation

Corporate profits have been bolstered by higher prices even as some of the costs of doing business have fallen in recent months.

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Why Are Food Prices So High in Europe?

Agricultural and energy costs are falling, but basic items remain stubbornly expensive for consumers.

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The percent increase in staple food prices in the E.U. over the last year.

Debt Limit Bill Heads to Key Committee in First Test of G.O.P. Support

Some Republicans on the panel have already come out in opposition to the package, raising early questions about its fate.

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Spending caps, additional requirements for food stamps and a new pipeline: Here’s what’s in the debt limit deal.

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy walking out to speak to reporters. He is wearing a blue jacket and gray pants. — Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Summer Books: 47 Literary Escapes for This Season

Just add sand, sunscreen and a hot afternoon.

A brightly-colored illustration shows a crowd of people and creatures — dolphins, octopuses, birds, fish — who are supported by a jet of water coming from a whale's blowhole. — Adolfo Redaño

A British Reporter Had a Big #MeToo Scoop. Her Editor Killed It.

Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances. But Britain’s news media has a complicated relationship with outing its own.

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A woman wearing black stands next a river surrounded by trees. — Lucy Siegle is one of multiple women to accuse the British columnist Nick Cohen of unwanted sexual advances and groping. Andrew Testa for The New York Times

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind and other A.I. labs are set to issue a warning that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

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One group is taking a counterintuitive approach to building smarter A.I. language models: making them smaller.

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A New Genetic Test Takes Aim at Young Hearts

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Katie Elkins sits on a dark chair in front of a bookcase. She has short dark hair, hoop earrings and a tattoo on her left arm. — Katie Elkins’s doctor recommended she get a new kind of genetic test to better assess her risk of a heart attack. Hannah Price for The New York Times

A Pillar of Erdogan’s Win: Devout Conservative Women

In winning another term as Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was propelled to victory in part by the fervent support of conservative religious women.

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Women at a campaign event holding an image of the Turkish president amid a crowd in an auditorium. — Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

For a Notorious Police Department, This Killing Was the Last Straw

A string of police shootings and abuse in Paterson, N.J., led the state attorney general to seize control of the department.

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California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad

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Can the ‘California Effect’ Survive in a Hyperpartisan America?

For decades, the state has been setting policy for the whole nation. Now red states are pushing back.

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An illustration of a California-inspired scene: wildfires, cars on a highway, the writer’s strike in Hollywood, a tent city, drones in the sky, flooding and a marijuana dispensary. — Illustration by Benjamin Marra

The model Geena Rocero sits on a wooden park bench with a wall of foliage behind her. She leans to one side, supporting herself with one hand on the seat, while the other grabs a fistful of her long black hair and lifts it high above her head. She wears a sleeveless black T-shirt featuring a photo of the band Kiss on the front. — Yolanda Hoskey for The New York Times

A Trans Model Fleeing the ‘Trap of Respectability’

A candid new memoir by Geena Rocero, a Filipino model and producer, recounts the pleasures and pitfalls of living openly.

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A woman wearing sunglasses that look like a black bar concealing her identity.

Smile! Those work-retreat group photos aren’t that bad, our columnist writes.

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A young couple and a child sit in a booth at restaurant table covered with drinks, a basket of tortilla chips, a bowl of guacamole and silverware as a server holding a tray hands them a basket holding two dishes.

Diners are fed up with minimal service. Will some warmth win them back?

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The Debt Deal Satisfies No One. Now Pass It as Quickly as Possible.

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Why North Korea’s Princess Will Never Wear the Crown

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Taking Sides Is a Natural Impulse. My Organization Can’t.

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This Is How Far the Country Has Come Since the I.R.A. Became Law

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The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive

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