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Donald J. Trump spoke on Tuesday night at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Donald Trump Sweeps 5 States; Hillary Clinton Takes 4

By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTIN

Mr. Trump won Pennsylvania, Maryland and three other states on Tuesday, decreasing the odds of a contested Republican convention. Mrs. Clinton won Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware.

The Justice Department last year dropped all charges against Xiaoxing Xi, head of Temple University's physics department; he had been accused of sharing sensitive American-made technology with China.
After Missteps, U.S. Tightens Rules for Espionage Cases

By MATT APUZZO

Prosecutors in Washington will have greater oversight after the collapse of several cases led to allegations that Chinese-Americans were being singled out as spies.

Demonstrators in Provo, Utah, last week protested Brigham Young University's use of its Honor Code to investigate and punish students who reported being sexually assaulted.
At Brigham Young, a Cost in Reporting a Rape

By JACK HEALY

The university is caught in a debate over the disparate treatment of sexual assault survivors as it tries to uphold a moral code at the heart of its Mormon identity.

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Editors' Picks
Matthew C. Lamanna and Rubén D. F. Martínez with bones from Sarmientosaurus musacchioi.

SCIENCE

Sarmientosaurus Was a 10-Ton Dinosaur With a Plum-Sized Brain

By KENNETH CHANG

After studying a rare and finely preserved skull unearthed in Argentina, scientists have named a new dinosaur, Sarmientosaurus musacchioi.

OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor

Obama's Last Chance to End the 'Forever War'

By JENNIFER DASKAL

The Obama administration has been fighting a semi-legal war for almost eight years. That's not a power he should leave for the next president.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"You try not to judge him, but it's a pretty small brain."

LAWRENCE M. WITMER, a professor of paleontology at Ohio University, on the discovery of a skull in Argentina that led paleontologists to announce the naming of a new dinosaur.

World
French police officers, conducting a raid near Strasbourg in 2014, detained a man suspected of receiving jihadist training in Syria.
He Disavowed Radical Islam. Was He Lying?

By ADAM NOSSITER

The case of seven men who went to Syria and returned home reflects a quandary for France and the rest of the Continent after the attacks in Paris and Brussels.

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in Istanbul, in April. The imprisoned journalists were his supporters.
Iranian Court Sentences 4 Journalists to Long Prison Terms

By THOMAS ERDBRINK

The four were arrested last November in a crackdown by the hard-line judiciary, and the convictions were seen as a warning to all Iranian journalists.

A section of Tiberina Island in Rome, the only island in the Tiber River. The river's filthy waterfront and murky waters are a painful reflection of the widespread neglect and degeneration that has blemished Rome's beauty.

Rome Journal

A Roman Legion of Volunteers Retakes the Tiber

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Citizens frustrated with the government have banded together to clean up the riverfront, part of a surge in grass-roots efforts to restore Rome's public spaces.

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