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LONDON – One owned apartments in New York and Paris, and a private island in the Caribbean, acquired through financial wizardry and a fat Rolodex of politicians and investors.

The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department’s leadership team ahead of the midterms, pushing out several deputies while elevating others in hopes of stabilizing an agency rattled by internal fights and controversial messages, according to more than half a dozen people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel matters.

National Guard soldiers have fully withdrawn from Los Angeles; Chicago; and Portland, Oregon, military officials said, ending federalized troop operations in half of the cities where the Trump administration launched them last year.

The Richmond Free Press, a Black-owned weekly newspaper that has served Virginia’s capital city for more than three decades, announced Thursday that it is ceasing publication, citing a collapse in advertising revenue that made the paper unsustainable.

At least 2 people are dead, and another was injured after a campus shooting on Thursday at South Carolina State University, school officials said, the latest gun-related incident to rock a U.S. college community.