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“Are you sitting down?” Vermont’s state botanist asked a fellow plant expert after spotting false mermaid-weed last month. Read full article

Pope Francis, noted for his outreach to gay Catholics, has been described as using an offensive Italian expression for gay men twice in recent weeks. Read full article

The movement looks for a path forward: ‘Is the goal the absolute abolition of abortion in our nation?’ Read full article

In a filing, the lawyers in the classified documents case made an aggressive, and at times misleading, argument against prosecutors’ request for the judge to curb his attacks on agents. Read full article

The challenge, from two of the families who filed the initial lawsuit, raises the possibility that access to I.V.F. could once again be in jeopardy in the state. Read full article

Victims of insurgent attacks in wartime Afghanistan described their loss to a jury at Guantánamo Bay to give a human face to a written guilty plea. Read full article

A gunman used bump stocks to help kill 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas in 2017, leading to wide political agreement that they should be prohibited. Read full article

Montana’s suicide rate has been the highest in the U.S. for the past three years. Most of the deaths involved firearms. But suicide rarely registers in the national debate over guns. Read full article

The federal agent who fatally shot the executive director of Little Rock’s airport was justified in his use of force, a local prosecutor said on Friday. Read full article

The decision was expected because President Biden had invoked executive privilege to shield recordings subpoenaed by G.O.P. lawmakers. Read full article