World
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China Won’t Hesitate to Fight for Taiwan, Defense Minister Warns
SINGAPORE — China will not flinch from war if Taiwan takes a decisive step toward independence, and it does not trust the United States ...
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Wonking Out: Why Monetary Policy Has Gotten So Hard
Today’s newsletter isn’t about what the Federal Reserve or its counterpart the European Central Bank should be doing. I have views, of course ...
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Momentum in Ukraine Is Shifting in Russia’s Favor
A war in Ukraine that began with a Russian debacle as its forces tried and failed to take Kyiv has seemingly begun to turn, with Russia now ...
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Was a British Journalist the Latest Victim of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon?
Monday began, for me, with a call that became a horror story. I discovered that Dom Phillips, a British journalist and friend, had disappeared a ...
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Reforms Are Imposed on U.N. Agency That Made Questionable Investments
After a series of puzzling financial decisions that put tens of millions of dollars at risk, the executive board of a little-heralded United ...
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Former Bolivian President Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Jeanine Añez, the former president of Bolivia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday following accusations that she illegally took over ...
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2 Teens Drown in New York Waterway Known for Strong Currents, Police Say
Two 13-year-old boys drowned on Friday after slipping into Jamaica Bay off a sandbar, the police said. With summer approaching and more people ...
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Our Racial Reckoning Could Have Come Sooner. What Made 2020 Different?
Why was there an all-encompassing racial reckoning in this country starting in the spring of 2020? And why then? Examining that question reminds ...
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Stonewall Jackson’s Name Fell Fast, and a Fury Quickly Followed
WOODSTOCK, Va. — It was getting late, well past 10 p.m., when the Shenandoah County School Board finally got around to the question that had been ...
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Nancy Clark Reynolds, a Player in Reagan’s Washington, Dies at 94
Nancy Clark Reynolds, whose life as a Washington insider stretched from the 1930s, when she arrived as the daughter of a New Deal congressman, to ...