Hegseth Faces Impeachment Charges, and Why Dead Birds Are Washing Up in California

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• Nvidia Chief Told Trump He Did Not Know Chinese Woman Was Suspected Spy, by Luke Broadwater and Maggie Haberman
• Hegseth Impeachment Charges Say He Violated the Constitution, by Robert Jimison
• California Voters Reject Billionaire Tax That Divided Democrats, by Laurel Rosenhall
• Immigrants Are Being Systematically Returned Home Despite Court Orders, by Megha Rajagopalan, Edward Wong, Ruth Maclean and Hamed Aleaziz
• Why the California Coast Has So Many Dead Birds, by Soumya Karlamangla
• The Booker Prize Gets Its First ‘Bona Fide’ Science Fiction Winner, by Alex Marshall

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