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Politics
Biden Just Proposed a Gas Tax Holiday. Will It Work?
When President Biden on Wednesday proposed a three-month suspension of federal taxes on gasoline and diesel, many Republicans rolled their eyes ...
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Health
Uterine Cancer Is on the Rise, Especially Among Black Women
Linda Collins had been in menopause for almost a decade when she started bleeding again. The bleeding was light — occasional spotting, really ...
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Sports
Easy to Overlook, He’s Not Too Small for the Celtics’ Big Moments
It was one of the more amusing moments of the N.B.A. playoffs. During Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Boston Celtics reserve guard ...
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Business
Tesla to Cut 10% of Salaried Staff, Musk Tells Employees
Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, plans to cut 10 percent of the electric carmaker’s salaried work force, he told staff in an email on Friday ...
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World
After Mass Gun Killings, Other Nations Changed Course — to Notable Effect
The world over, mass shootings are frequently met with a common response: Officials impose new restrictions on gun ownership. Mass shootings ...
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Politics
Fact-Checking Trump and Cruz at the N.R.A. Convention
Prominent Republicans defended gun rights at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday with some misleading claims about the efficacy ...
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World
The Pandemic Still Isn’t Over. So What Now?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. In March 2020, just weeks after the pandemic ...
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Magazine
Elon Musk Is a Typical Twitter User, Except for One Thing
In many ways, Elon Musk uses Twitter like the rest of us. He likes to joke around, but isn’t as funny as he thinks he is; he overshares and loves ...
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World
For a Minute There, It Really Was No Child Left Behind
“We said we wouldn’t accept the levels of child poverty we have as a permanent feature of our democracy,” Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of ...
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World
Videos Show an Ordinary New York Morning Erupting Into Chaos on the N Train
On videos captured inside a smoke-choked subway car, commuters can be seen hunching into their collars, pulling sleeves and hoods across their ...
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