World
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Defiant Ottawa Protesters Brace for a Clampdown
The police on Wednesday ordered protesters clogging Ottawa’s streets to leave or face criminal charges, appearing to set the stage for a ...
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Queen’s Jubilee Year Just Started, but Bad News Hasn’t Stopped for Royals
LONDON — In a royal family where scandal seems to rotate among its members with nearly metronomic regularity, one might have predicted that ...
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Harriet S. Shapiro, Groundbreaker in Solicitor General’s Office, Dies at 93
Harriet S. Shapiro, the first female lawyer ever hired in the U.S. solicitor general’s office to present cases to the Supreme Court on behalf of ...
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Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them.
The Encores! series at New York City Center has, a program for the new season reads, “staged weeklong revivals of rarely seen musicals from the ...
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Why We Are Not Facing the Prospect of a Second Civil War
It has not been uncommon, in recent years, to hear Americans worry about the advent of a new civil war. “Is Civil War Ahead?” The New Yorker ...
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Trump’s Big China Flop and Other Failures
Do you remember Donald Trump’s trade war? You can be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, given everything that has happened since; it ...
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As Russia Welcomes Talks, Biden Warns Invasion Is Still Possible
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would “partially pull back troops” deployed near Ukraine and was seeking a ...
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As a bipartisan push for sanctions against Russia stalls in Congress, Republicans present their own bill.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort in to authorize a bruising set of sanctions against Moscow sputtered on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as lawmakers ...
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Face Crucial Test in Deciphering Putin’s Motives
WASHINGTON — At the height of the Russian effort in 2016 to manipulate the U.S. presidential election, the C.I.A. had a secret weapon: a mole ...
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P.J. O’Rourke, Outspoken Political Satirist, Dies at 74
P.J. O’Rourke, the satirist, political commentator and best-selling author known for books like “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts ...