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Parents Face a Haunting Question: Is Any Schoolchild Safe?
Late Tuesday night, Luz Belliard sat on the edge of her bed in Upper Manhattan in the room she shares with her 9-year-old granddaughter, Victoria ...
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Q Train Killing Threatens Subway’s Fragile Recovery From Pandemic
Transit officials in New York City celebrated a major milestone last week: The subway system logged 3.6 million trips in a single day, a pandemic ...
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It Shouldn’t Take This Long to Vaccinate Our Youngest Kids
The Food and Drug Administration last week announced authorization of a third Covid vaccine dose — a single booster — for children 5-11. This ...
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How to Get People to Do What You Want Them to Do
Tommy James & the Shondells sang “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Economists have their own shade of persuasion — Bayesian. Bayesian persuasion is an ...
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Morton L. Janklow, Agent for Best-Selling Authors, Dies at 91
Morton L. Janklow, the storied New York literary agent who struck megadeals with publishers for best-selling authors, ghostwritten celebrities ...
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A doomed river crossing shows the perils of entrapment in the war’s east
BELOKHOROVKE, Ukraine — Out on the riverbank, the scene of mayhem unfolded under a baking spring sun: blown-up tanks, the detritus of pontoon ...
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After Mass Gun Killings, Other Nations Changed Course — to Notable Effect
The world over, mass shootings are frequently met with a common response: Officials impose new restrictions on gun ownership. Mass shootings ...
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Your Thursday Briefing: A Texas School Shooting
Good morning. We’re covering a school shooting in Texas, Russia’s narrowed focus in Ukraine’s east and diplomacy in Africa. A group of men ...
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‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Writer Convicted of Murdering Husband
A romance novelist who wrote about “How to Murder Your Husband” was convicted in her husband’s killing on Wednesday following a contentious trial ...
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E. Gerald Corrigan, Who Helped Ease ’87 Stock Crash, Dies at 80
E. Gerald Corrigan, who as the aggressive president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank helped cushion Wall Street’s crash in the late 1980s ...