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Family Goes Missing After Heavy Rains Drench Western Australia
Seven people, including four children, haven’t been seen in more than a day after 5.5 inches of rain in 24 hours led to floods and closed roads.
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Why Democrats Are Hopeful in North Carolina and Nervous in Georgia
President Biden’s campaign and its allies are targeting both battlegrounds — but only one state has a highly controversial Republican nominee lower on the ballot.
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Democrats Need to Stop Playing Nice
There is a moment in the 2008 HBO movie “Recount” that illuminates an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats. The film was a fictionalized account of the mayhem that followed the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Warren ...
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California’s Ballot Measure on Mental Health Care Still Isn’t Decided. Why?
Proposition 1 was expected to be widely approved, but the vote is close. Here’s what the measure is and what’s at stake.
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Virginia Bans Legacy Admissions in Public Universities and Colleges
The new law comes as the practice of giving preferential treatment to applicants with family ties to alumni has come under renewed scrutiny.
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There Is a Secret Hamiltonian in the White House
President Biden has been called a lot of things, but Hamiltonian is not usually one of them. In spite of his economic successes, hardly anyone has thought to compare the president to the architect of the American economy. And yet, more than any ...
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Wyoming Banned Abortion. She Opened an Abortion Clinic Anyway.
It was not such an implausible idea, back in 2020, when a philanthropist emailed Julie Burkhart to ask if she would consider opening an abortion clinic in Wyoming, one of the nation’s most conservative states and the one that had twice given Donald ...
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Lily Gladstone for Best Actress? Oscars Gamblers Are Betting Big.
Inside the world of people making bets on the winners of the Academy Awards — with some taking home thousands of dollars.
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Steve Garvey’s Improbable Rise, Decades After His Baseball Heyday
The former Major League Baseball star running for the Senate faces long odds in Democratic-run California. He hopes to appeal to voters who are frustrated — and love a good sports analogy.
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Haiti Engulfed by Crisis as Gangs Press Prime Minister to Step Down
The power struggle in Haiti is raising pressure on the United States to ease tensions while casting doubt on plans for a Kenyan-led security mission.