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Judge Declines to Halt UFC Fight at the White House on Trump’s Birthday

In a ruling on Friday, Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote that the lawsuit arrived last minute and failed to show how the event irreversibly harmed the individuals who sued.

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Construction of a stage for the planned fight at the White House.
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Knicks in Five? Please Don’t Tempt the Jinx Gods.

Some Knicks fans have predicted series sweeps. Others, conditioned by decades of failure, pay more heed to jinxes and superstitious rituals.

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The Knicks’ championship run has revealed a fundamental difference among some fans, with some unafraid of making boastful predictions and others recoiling at the jinx factor of doing so.
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Major League Baseball Will Question the Dodgers’s Doctor About Banned Drugs

The inquiry comes after a report that Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the physician for the team, supported the U.F.C. star Conor McGregor in using performance-enhancing drugs while recovering from an injury.

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Dr. Neal ElAttrache with Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers during a game in Tokyo in 2025.
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Mamdani Finds a Foil Familiar to New Yorkers: James Dolan

Mr. Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks, began a public feud with Mayor Zohran Mamdani with his team on the verge of an N.B.A. title.

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James Dolan suggested that the incompetence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, left them incapable of handling “anything like this.”
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