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Ukraine Retreats From Embattled City, as Russia Grinds On
DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — After weeks of bloody street fighting and months of withering artillery fire, Ukrainian forces will withdraw from ...
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City calls for federal help to fight gun violence.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City called for bipartisan gun control legislation, a ban on assault weapons and federal aid to help cities and ...
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Oris Buckner, Detective Who Blew the Whistle on Police Abuse, Dies at 70
Oris Buckner, who as New Orleans’s only Black homicide detective in the early 1980s exposed one of the worst cases of police violence in the city ...
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President of Museum of Natural History to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years
After an unusually long tenure of nearly 30 years as president of the American Museum of Natural History, Ellen V. Futter on Wednesday informed ...
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Zelensky tells U.S. mayors to end their sister-city ties with Russia.
RENO, Nev. — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called out several American cities for having sister cities in Russia during a video address ...
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Billionaire Candidates and Their Wild Promises
At first glance — and maybe even at a second one — it’s difficult to tell what, exactly, makes Rick Caruso a Democrat. Caruso, a billionaire real ...
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Shoplifting Ring Swept Stores for Luxury Goods, Prosecutors Say
For years, the leader of a New York City theft ring would draw up wish lists for dozens of underlings whom he sent out to shoplift millions of ...
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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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N.Y.C. Jail Officials Avert a Federal Takeover of Rikers Island
Even as she acknowledged that “people are dying” in New York City’s troubled jails, a federal judge on Tuesday refrained from stripping control ...
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Surge in Virus Cases Puts Most of New York State on High Alert
New coronavirus cases surged in most counties in New York State this week, putting them on “high” alert under Centers for Disease Control and ...
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