World
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Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters.
Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got ...
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Sanctioned Oligarch’s Presence Adds Intrigue to Ukraine-Russia Talks
LVIV, Ukraine — When diplomats from Russia and Ukraine met for talks in the 19th-century Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul on Tuesday, their host ...
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Peace Talks Produce Signs of Progress, but No End to War Is in Sight
ISTANBUL — The first signs of significant progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine emerged on Tuesday, but there was no hint of an ...
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At Sarah Lawrence Cult Trial, Bronx Siblings Describe Their Ordeal
Lawrence V. Ray grunts and screams on the audio recording. He asks for his “sharpest razor,” calls for a hammer and yells at a young man named ...
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Joan Joyce, Dominant in Women’s Softball, Is Dead at 81
On a warm August night in 1961, Ted Williams, the “Splendid Splinter” who had finished his Hall of Fame baseball career the year before as the ...
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‘I Make No Apologies’: Biden Says His Putin Comments Were an Expression of Moral Outrage
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday stood by his comment that Vladimir V. Putin should not remain president of Russia, but said it was an ...
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Marco Rubio Leads G.O.P. Push for a More Combative Stance on China
Marco Rubio wants Americans to “wake up.” China is already locked in conflict with the United States, the Republican senator from Florida warns ...
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Missing From Biden’s Budget: His Signature Policy Agenda
Administrations normally detail their biggest policy dreams in their annual budgets. The Biden administration tucked its into the footnotes ...
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Missing From the Federal Budget: Biden’s Signature Policy Agenda
Administrations normally detail their biggest policy dreams in their annual budgets. The Biden administration tucked its into the footnotes ...
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Here’s the Neat Trick of Biden’s Billionaire Tax
President Biden is trying to pull off a neat trick with his so-called billionaire tax plan: to raise taxes on the wealthy without directly taxing ...