World
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Argentina’s Vice President Unharmed After Attack Outside Home
A man pointed a pistol at the head of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina on Thursday night and appeared to try to fire ...
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The Day Gorbachev Made D.C. Stand Still
WASHINGTON — There have been two surreal visitations in Washington that left people quivering with excitement. The first was seven decades ago ...
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If an Alternative Candidate Is Needed in 2024, These Folks Will Be Ready
What happens if the 2024 election is between Donald Trump and somebody like Bernie Sanders? What happens if the Republicans nominate someone who ...
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Can You Drown Government in an Empty Bathtub?
Mississippi has long been America’s poorest state, with real gross domestic product per person only about 60 percent of the national average. The ...
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Experts Brave Shelling to Reach Imperiled Ukrainian Nuclear Plant at Last
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — A U.N. inspection team finally reached the embattled nuclear power plant in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine on Thursday ...
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Pencil, chalk and first-aid kits: Ukrainian children return to school in the midst of war.
Workers School undergoing repairs at No. 3 in Bucha, Ukraine, the day before classes begin on Wednesday.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York ...
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Debt-Stricken Sri Lanka Reaches Initial Deal for I.M.F. Bailout
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a bailout package as the ...
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The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading
National test results released on Thursday showed in stark terms the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with the ...
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Your Thursday Briefing
Mikhail Gorbachev, addressing the U.N. General Assembly in 1988.Credit...Bill Foley/Getty ImagesPutin reacts to Gorbachev’s death After Mikhail ...
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‘Defund the Police’ Is Dead. Now What?
Some said it was dumb. Some thought it was politically disastrous. Some thought it was being unfairly demonized and mischaracterized. But ...