World
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A Migrant Wave Tests New York City’s Identity as the World’s Sanctuary
The four buses crossed into Manhattan on Wednesday morning and turned off a bustling avenue onto a shadowed side street in Midtown. The names ...
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Adams Endorses Primary Candidates, Hoping to Defeat Left-Wing Democrats
Most big-city mayors, especially those in the relative infancy of their tenures, typically try to avoid wading into fractious party primaries ...
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Where Are All the Manhattan Voters in August? Try the Hamptons.
AMAGANSETT, N.Y. — In the lush town green here one recent morning, waiting to get her nails done, sat just the kind of Manhattan Democrat whose ...
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Why inspectors haven’t yet visited the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
BRUSSELS — With anxiety mounting about the dangers to Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, which is occupied by the invading Russian Army ...
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Democrats Have Embraced Economics. Too Much?
I love this sentence in a recent book by Elizabeth Popp Berman: “For Republicans, economic reasoning remained a means to an end; for Democrats ...
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In India, New Wave of Trauma as 11 Convicted of Rape and Murder Walk Free
GODHRA, India — For 15 years, as she moved from house to house for her family’s safety, Bilkis Bano waited for assurance from the courts that the ...
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The Fried Chicken Inflation Index
If you are walking anywhere in London and spot Elijah Quashie, a.k.a. The Chicken Connoisseur, he would be grateful if you resist the urge to ...
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Germany’s Stony-Faced Chancellor Faces Critics on Nearly Every Side
BERLIN — First, he failed to immediately contradict the Palestinian leader who accused Israel of “50 Holocausts” as they stood together in Berlin ...
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Ann McGuiness, Major Fund-Raiser for Women’s Health, Dies at 65
Ann McGuiness, a behind-the-scenes force in women’s health and reproductive rights who raised vast amounts of money for Planned Parenthood and ...
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Drink Up, Japan Tells Young People. I’ll Pass, Many Reply.
TOKYO — Among the casualties of the pandemic is one that many young people in Japan say they do not miss: the drinking culture. Sobriety, they ...