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via NYT > World News The U.S. Mint is legally required to sell only legal, domestic gold. Instead, it is the last link in a chain that launders foreign gold for an insatiable market. Our reporter Justin Scheck traced one such supply chain: from an illegal mine in Colombia all the way to the Mint’s facilities in West Point, N.Y.

via NYT > World News Conservationists say they have recorded several new adult and cub Asiatic cheetahs, a critically endangered subspecies found only in Iran.

via NYT > World News After months of tensions and pressure from both the U.S. and Iran, Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman, was named as prime minister-designate.

via NYT > World News President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove difficult.

via NYT > World News Geely is challenging the giant BYD by adapting quickly to swings in demand and energy prices, seizing on interest in electric vehicles prompted by the war in Iran.

via NYT > World News The gunman had written a “manifesto,” the president said, before trying to enter a dinner in Washington for the White House press corps.

via NYT > World News Naftali Bennett, a right-wing politician, and Yair Lapid, a centrist, will merge parties for a vote later this year.