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Climate Risks Loom Over Panama Canal, a Vital Global Trade Link
Lack of rain and changing weather patterns are slowing the ship traffic that moves goods around the world.
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What to Know About Key Nations Seeking to Join BRICS
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Indonesia and Egypt are among the potential candidates to expand the five-nation bloc, many of them seeking stronger ties with non-Western powers. Iran is also interested.
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Think the Police Should Wear Body Cameras? That Will Cost Taxpayers Extra.
The public increasingly expects that police interactions will be recorded. And police unions increasingly expect a raise for doing the recording.
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China Stocks Slump as Economic Gloom Spreads
A string of worrying data has taken the fizz out of markets.
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The Ultimate Horror Movie Is Really About Heaven and Hell
It is one of those strange accidents of history that the best film ever made about the Roman Catholic Church was directed by a Jewish agnostic. The career of William Friedkin, who died on Monday at 87, spanned seven decades, but to the end of his ...
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Wonking Out: How Super Is Your Superpower?
My most recent column was about the troubles facing the Chinese economy, which appear to be serious. However, I was careful to acknowledge that China’s three-decade economic miracle has made it a bona fide economic superpower and that its current ...
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Yellow Says It Will Repay Federal Debt. Legal Experts Are Skeptical.
The trucking company, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, owes more than $700 million to the Treasury Department.
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In the Swedish Countryside, a Home With Space to Think
SWEDEN IS AMONG the world’s most egalitarian societies, but you might not sense that when surveying the ancestral estates that rise above the gently rolling landscape of the southern Skåne province, near the country’s border with Denmark. Among them ...
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Rikers Watchdog Sues New York City Over Lack of Transparency
Members want their access to video from Rikers restored, filing their case the day before a critical hearing that could put the city’s jails on the path to a takeover by a federal court.
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Why Haven’t We Made It Safer to Breathe in Classrooms?
Two years ago, we got a chance to assure parents and teachers, in any future epidemic, that the air in classrooms was safer, making it easier for children to attend school in person and avoid learning loss and isolation. In March 2021, Congress ...
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