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Outside Colbert’s Final Show, Fans From Near and Far Line Up for a Farewell

Hundreds of people, including a pope, staked out the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan, hoping to get in, or just get a glimpse.

The crowd outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Thursday afternoon.
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Plane Crashes Into House in Ohio, Killing 2

No one on the ground was hurt when a small plane crashed into a house on a residential street south of downtown Akron, the authorities said.

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Two people were killed when a single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee crashed into a house in Akron, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon, officials said. No one on the ground was injured.
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Two Charged With Trafficking 260 Pounds of Meth to New Jersey

They face at least 10 years in prison, and the authorities accused one of the men of being associated with the Sinaloa Cartel.

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Robert Frazer, U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. He announced the methamphetamine bust on Tuesday.
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Cursive Club, Where Students Learn With a Flourish

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms.

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Chris Kobara practices writing his name in a cursive writing club at the Urban Assembly Early College High School of Emergency Medicine in Manhattan.
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Hiker Killed by Bear at Glacier National Park, Officials Say

The victim was a seasoned outdoorsman who “had no problem being alone in the woods,” his father said. He was found with injuries “consistent with those sustained by a bear encounter,” the National Park Service said.

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Anthony Pollio was last heard from on May 3 while hiking in Glacier National Park. He left his father a voice mail message that said: “It is wild out here. I love you dad.”
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U.S. Health Authorities Monitor Hantavirus Cruise Passengers in Georgia, California and Arizona

People in at least three states are being monitored after being on the ship. None have shown symptoms, officials said.

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Three sick people aboard the MV Hondius were evacuated on Wednesday.
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Ex-FedEx Driver Who Killed 7-Year-Old Athena Strand Is Sentenced to Death

Tanner Horner kidnapped and strangled the girl, Athena Strand, after delivering a package to her home in Texas. The package was her Christmas gift, a set of Barbies.

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A makeshift memorial for Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas, in 2022. She was kidnapped from outside her father’s home.
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6 Are Injured in Stabbing at a High School in Washington State

Five students were injured, four of them critically, after an altercation at Foss High School in Tacoma, Wash., the authorities said. A security guard was also injured.

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Officers were investigating at Foss High School, in Tacoma, Wash., after six people were injured in a stabbing on Thursday.
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Sheriff of New Orleans Jail Where 10 Inmates Escaped Is Indicted

Susan Hutson, the sheriff of Orleans Parish, faces 30 counts, and the jail’s chief financial officer was also indicted.

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Sheriff Susan Hutson after a news conference in 2025 following the jailbreak. She has been indicted on 30 counts of misconduct related to the escape.
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Chicago Hospital Shooting Leaves 1 Officer Dead and Another in Critical Condition

A 57-year-old officer was “fighting for his life,” after the shooting on Saturday at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, the police superintendent said. A suspect was in custody.

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Two police officers were shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Chicago on Saturday, the authorities said.
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Man Is Sentenced to 20 Years in 1983 Killing of Oregon Woman

Teresa Peroni, 27, was last seen on July 4, 1983, in Selma, Ore. Marcus Sanfratello, the man seen with her that day, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter after his arrest last year.
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Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say

A California man was charged with grand theft after the police said he reaped about $34,000 in what an official called an “off the charts” pasta-and-switch scheme involving Lego kits.

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The police said a California man bought Lego sets to orchestrate a refund scheme that involved bags of pasta.
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Remains Linked to Submerged Car Solve 1958 Mystery of Missing Oregon Family

The case of the missing Martin family was unsolved until a diver found a car in an Oregon river in 2024. Officials, relying on DNA tests, said Thursday that they had identified the remains of three people.

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Remains recovered from an Oregon river in 2025 were identified as three family members who went missing in 1958, the authorities said on Thursday. The bodies of two other family members had been found in 1959.
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Ohio Man Is First to Be Federally Convicted for Deepfake Porn

James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, had at least 10 victims, according to the authorities. He pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and other charges covered by the Take It Down Act.

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At Least 15 Injured After Driver Plows Into a Louisiana Parade

Some of the pedestrians at the parade in New Iberia, La., were critically hurt, according to the authorities, who said the driver was intoxicated.

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The downtown in New Iberia, La., in 2023. The driver of a vehicle who plowed into a crowd of people at a parade was taken into custody on Saturday, officials said.
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Man Threatened to Kill President Trump With Sword, Officials Say

The man made multiple threats on Facebook and said that the law enforcement agents responding to arrest him would be killed, officials said.

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Officials searching the home of a Massachusetts man said they found several blades. The man, who was arrested in connection with threatening to kill the president, also appeared with a sword when agents arrived at his home, officials said.
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Police Kill Gunman Who Shot Employee at Georgia V.A. Clinic

The employee’s condition was not immediately disclosed. The Department of Veterans Affairs said the clinic would be closed for the rest of the week, while the authorities investigate.

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A gunman was fatally shot after he opened fire inside the Pickens County V.A. Clinic in Jasper, Ga., on Tuesday, wounding a worker there, the authorities said.
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Chemical Smell at Control Center Halts Traffic at Washington and Baltimore Airports

The ground delays, which also affected the airport serving Richmond, Va., were expected to last until at least midnight, according to the F.A.A., which said the smell had affected air traffic controllers.

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was among the airports where the F.A.A. halted flights on Friday afternoon.
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Ex-Officer Who Took Nude Images From Phones in Traffic Stops Is Sentenced

The former Missouri police officer, Julian Alcala, was sentenced to two years in prison and now faces civil lawsuits from several of the 20 victims the authorities identified.

© Bryan Birks for The New York Times

The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. courthouse in St. Louis, where a former Missouri police officer, Julian Alcala, was sentenced on Wednesday.
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