Mother
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World
Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair in Waco, Texas — some 1,300 miles from her recliner in Las Vegas — and joining a great many other Americans as they put on solar eclipse ...
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Magazine
What if Mom’s Not to Blame?
In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re not the monsters audiences expect them to be.
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World
Aleksei Navalny’s Body Was Returned to His Mother, Allies Say
The Russian authorities have transferred the body, ending a grim battle for custody of his remains.
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World
Toxic Beauty Standards Can Be Passed Down
When my best friend and I lived together 13 years ago, our shared bathroom had a handful of products: soap, tanning lotion, deodorant, toothpaste, potpourri and maybe, occasionally, a face cream that one of us found on sale at Walgreens. No serums ...
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Arts
‘Munich Medea: Happy Family’ Review: A Friendship Crushed by the Past
Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful Greek mother.
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World
Children Born During the War in Gaza Will Never Truly Escape It
After Israel began its invasion of Gaza shortly after Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, Aya Khrais — a pregnant 26-year-old dentist, wife of a doctor and mother of a 2-year-old girl living in Gaza City — lost contact with the doctors and health services she ...
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World
Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87
Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.
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World
Even in Their Anguish, These Israeli Survivors Say Invading Gaza Won’t Help
No one understands terrorism more viscerally than Maoz Inon: His 78-year-old father and 75-year-old mother were among those massacred by Hamas this month in southern Israel. He mourns his parents, and he despairs for old friends who have been ...
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Teenage Cousin of Uvalde Gunman Arrested Over Threats to a School
The teenager, Nathan James Cruz, was arrested after he threatened to “do the same thing” as his cousin, the police said.
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World
Robbed of Space to Mourn
When RowVaughn Wells arrived at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on an icy, gray Wednesday in Memphis, she was there to say goodbye to her son Tyre Nichols. He was dead. Killed. Beaten to death by local police officers while he screamed for her ...