World
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John Szeles, Who Mixed Jokes With Gore as the Amazing Johnathan, Dies at 63
John Edward Szeles, the comedian and magician who combined jokes with ersatz gore in his stage persona as the Amazing Johnathan, died on Tuesday ...
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For Many Russians, a Deep Unease Over Gathering Specter of War
MOSCOW — Waiting for her friends on Moscow’s primly landscaped Boulevard Ring, Svetlana Kozakova admitted that she’d had a sleepless night. She ...
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Russian Mercenaries Have Covertly Entered Separatist Enclaves in Ukraine
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine — Russian mercenaries with experience fighting in Syria and Libya have covertly trickled into two rebel territories in eastern ...
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Columbia Psychiatry Chair Suspended After Tweet About Dark-Skinned Model
The chair of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry was suspended on Wednesday, “effective immediately,” after referring to a dark ...
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A class-action lawsuit claims CareCube charged New Yorkers for virus tests they thought were free.
A Brooklyn-based physicians group is facing a class-action lawsuit accusing it of charging hundreds of dollars for coronavirus tests to New ...
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U.N. leader deepens criticism of Russia over Ukraine crisis.
The leader of the United Nations deepened his criticism of Russia on Tuesday over its actions in Ukraine, not only describing them as a violation ...
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Adams Is Challenged Over His Hiring of 3 Gay Marriage Foes
In 2014, as Uganda was promulgating a law that made some homosexual behavior punishable by life in prison, a councilman from the Bronx traveled ...
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‘He Wanted to Make the Whole World His Patient’
More than two decades ago, I had the great good fortune to spend parts of several years traveling with Dr. Paul Farmer, to Haiti, Peru, Cuba ...
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Once a Foreign Policy Partner, Congress Struggles for Unity on Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Since the 1950s, when Senator Arthur Vandenberg declared that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” titans in Congress have been key ...
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Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age Singer, Dies at 57
Mark Lanegan, a singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and an integral part of the 1980s and 1990s grunge scene in the Pacific ...