Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did not succeed.)

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and King Charles did not meet privately. But if they had, the mayor said, he probably would have raised the issue of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.

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President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.

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President Trump’s criticism reversed his administration’s previous support for the deal, in which Britain relinquished control of the Chagos Islands, site of a joint U.S.-British base.

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