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May 20, 2024
Kevin Kwan left Singapore's opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He's still writing about it.
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May 20, 2024
An inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the movie "Wall Street," he made a fortune from insider trading before his downfall brought a crashing end to a decade of greed.
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May 20, 2024
In sickness and health, in public scandal and with convenient finger-pointing.
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May 20, 2024
Chuck Zito, who did time on drug conspiracy charges, has tried to recast his persona as a general-purpose tough guy around town.
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May 20, 2024
The government has for the first time ordered nationwide rolling blackouts for Monday night to conserve energy.
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May 20, 2024
In Canada, cannabis poisonings rose sharply among people 65 and older after the country legalized the drug, a new study found.
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May 20, 2024
The court's efforts underscore the moral stain of the starvation in Gaza.
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May 20, 2024
Under the bill, New York nonprofits that provide financial support to Israel's military or settlements could be sued for at least $1 million and lose their tax-exempt status.
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May 20, 2024
The WikiLeaks founder won his bid to appeal his extradition to the United States on espionage charges, opening a new chapter in a prolonged legal battle.
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May 20, 2024
While the request must be approved by the court's judges, the announcement is a harsh rebuke of the Israeli leader's war strategy in Gaza.
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May 20, 2024
A six-year inquiry found that the deaths of about 3,000 people and the infection of tens of thousands of others could have mostly been avoided.
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May 20, 2024
The sudden death of Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, disrupts a careful effort at a smooth transition to a new supreme leader to replace the aging Ali Khamenei.
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May 20, 2024
The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.
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May 20, 2024
The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.
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May 20, 2024
Russia has largely evaded attempts by the U.S. and Europe to keep it from profiting from its energy exports.
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May 20, 2024
The Dali, which had been pinned in by the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge since late March, began moving again early Monday.
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May 20, 2024
Plus, the Trump trial enters its final days.
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May 20, 2024
Former employees of the ChatGPT maker raised concerns that it isn't doing enough to make sure its products don't pose a threat to humanity.
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May 20, 2024
The WikiLeaks founder won his bid to appeal his extradition on espionage charges, opening a new chapter in a prolonged legal battle.
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May 20, 2024
In Washington, despite polarization, bipartisanship has somehow become normal.
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May 20, 2024
Plus, Baltimore bridge ship to be moved.
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May 20, 2024
The report also found that Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen bought parts from a supplier the U.S. government had singled out for its practices in Xinjiang.
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May 20, 2024
Much of why Americans are retiring with so little money can be traced to the reliance on the retirement account.
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May 20, 2024
Mr. Mokhber has long been involved in business conglomerates tied to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He must hold elections for a new president within 50 days.
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May 20, 2024
The ruling in the trial of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, which may come this week, could be a deciding factor in a tight race.
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May 20, 2024
Many voters who respect the president don't necessarily want him to return to office.
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May 20, 2024
Justice Alito and Senator Menendez have one thing in common.
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May 20, 2024
As provocative as the testimony has been, this case may turn on something a great deal more mundane.
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May 20, 2024
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and Planned Parenthood Votes are joining together to help their preferred candidates for 2024 as state-level party battles gain steam.
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May 20, 2024
The Grand Canyon State is up for grabs — and so is its political future.
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May 20, 2024
Columbus, Ohio, had only about 100 homicides a year. Then came a pandemic surge. With more guns and looser laws, can the city find its way back to the old normal?
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May 20, 2024
Mr. Watson's lawyer has argued that many other media leaders lured investors with "puffing and bluffing," and that Mr. Watson is being singled out because he is Black.
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May 20, 2024
Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease.
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May 20, 2024
With elections a week away, the political comeback of Mr. Zuma, the former president, has presented a test for the country's fledgling democracy.
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May 20, 2024
On an epic road trip, a family plots a course from Alaska to the Lower 48, passing through some of Canada's most spectacular scenery. The tally: 2,200 miles, five national parks, numerous hot springs and one excellent reindeer hot dog.
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May 20, 2024
The oldest Ukrainians whose towns have been bombarded and overrun by Russia's invasion have memories of similar miseries at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War II.
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May 20, 2024
Some reservists in the Israel Defense Forces who have returned home from war have joined the growing calls within Israel for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition to step aside.
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May 20, 2024
The political comeback of Mr. Zuma, the former president and onetime leader of the African National Congress, has presented a test for the country's fledgling democracy.
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May 20, 2024
Monday's court session will begin early, with the cross-examination of Michael D. Cohen continuing. Lawyers have been told to have their closing arguments ready by Tuesday.
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May 20, 2024
City officials and others are reconsidering how New Yorkers store their cars.
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May 20, 2024
The city serves up a cast of supporting characters who flock to a park outside Manhattan Criminal Court, where Donald Trump is on trial, and grab the spotlight.
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May 20, 2024
A.I.-manipulated videos on Chinese sites use young, supposedly Russian women to promote China-Russia ties, stoke patriotism — and make money.
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May 20, 2024
The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran's supreme leader. Mr. Raisi's death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict with Israel.
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May 20, 2024
There is a disregard among Israeli soldiers for Palestinian lives, and we are seeing it in Gaza today.
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May 20, 2024
Conflicting political visions, competitive jockeying and American dominance stand in the way of a more coordinated and efficient military machine.
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May 20, 2024
The experience of TikTok's owner, ByteDance, in Beijing and Washington shows how much the ground has shifted for China's entrepreneurs.
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May 20, 2024
A hearing on Monday will determine whether Julian Assange has any more recourse in the British courts to appeal his extradition to the United States.
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May 19, 2024
A brilliant flash of blue, green and white on Saturday night came from a shard of an as yet unidentified comet that was moving around 100,000 miles per hour, experts said.
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May 19, 2024
Lai Ching-te, the incoming president, has vowed to stay on his predecessor's narrow path of resisting Beijing without provoking it. It won't be easy.
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May 19, 2024
Though he was the company's president, he opted for joint leadership with family members as they made Nordstrom, starting as a string of shoe stores, into an international fashion retail brand.
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May 19, 2024
After meeting the pope and the mayors of Rome, London and Dublin, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York paused to reconnect with her past.
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May 19, 2024
Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.
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May 19, 2024
Officers were filmed punching three demonstrators at the protest in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The police said protesters were blocking the streets.
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May 19, 2024
The president's appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta drew some respectful but noticeable protest over U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza.
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May 19, 2024
Finance ministers from the G7 nations are hoping to finalize a plan ahead of the group's leaders meeting next month.
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May 19, 2024
As stifling heat settled over the city, the local electricity provider said most service would return by late Sunday. But hard-hit areas could remain dark for days longer.
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May 19, 2024
The U.S. ambassador said she was "very concerned" that Americans may have participated in what officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo called a failed coup attempt early Sunday.
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May 19, 2024
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.
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May 19, 2024
The announcement spells out the terms of a pullout that the Biden administration unveiled last month and comes after a military junta ousted Niger's president last July.
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May 19, 2024
Mr. Raisi has been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the highest political and religious position in the Islamic republic.
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May 19, 2024
Slovakia has long been dogged by criticism that it is prone to authoritarianism, but a frenzy of blame since an assassination attempt has heightened such concerns.
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May 19, 2024
Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It's changing how they do their jobs.
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May 19, 2024
After footage surfaced of Mr. Combs striking, kicking and dragging Cassie, he apologized on social media, saying that "my behavior on that video is inexcusable."
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May 19, 2024
Serve with beer so cold it's flecked with ice.
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May 19, 2024
Both sides have been looking for ways to inflict damage beyond the battlefield, targeting military logistics hubs and urban centers.
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May 19, 2024
The president's appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta was not welcomed by all on campus, amid dissatisfaction with U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza.
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May 19, 2024
Some Gen Z kids can't seem to get enough of the luxury fragrances.
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May 19, 2024
Some teenage boys have grown obsessed with designer fragrances that cost hundreds of dollars.
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May 19, 2024
Results from a week of sales tell a story of a masterpiece market come down to earth, the cooling of young art stars — and a hack starting to come to light.
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May 19, 2024
The Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk became the world's undisputed heavyweight champion on Sunday. The victory has lifted morale in a country struggling to contain Russian advances on the battlefield.
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May 19, 2024
Comedies make you laugh. Thrillers make you cheer. Some Hollywood films used to make you sob your eyes out. We need those movies again.
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May 19, 2024
A terrible man is in the cross hairs of American justice, but immorality alone doesn't make him a criminal.
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May 19, 2024
It's not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It's the denial of what's behind them.
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May 19, 2024
The president's appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta was not welcomed by all on campus, amid dissatisfaction with U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza.
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May 19, 2024
President Luis Abinader goes into Sunday's race as the clear front-runner, bolstered by nativist migration policies, a strong economy and an anticorruption drive.
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May 19, 2024
You may feel richer as you pay your mortgage down and home values go up. Using that equity is another matter entirely.
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May 19, 2024
Andrei R. Belousov, an intellectual with no military experience, is known for backing a state-dominated economy.
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May 19, 2024
Either by choice or because they are priced out of the market, many people plan to never stop renting. Building wealth without home equity requires a different mind-set.
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May 19, 2024
Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It's changing how they do their jobs.
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May 19, 2024
A record number of new migrants has left many with legitimate asylum cases unable to find a lawyer to keep them from being deported.
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May 19, 2024
The former president's defense appeared to chip away at Michael Cohen's credibility, but legal experts said the case is still the prosecution's to lose.
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May 19, 2024
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
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May 19, 2024
Officers were filmed punching several people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Bay Ridge.
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May 19, 2024
A coach's soccer legacy is often reduced to titles and trophies. In Liverpool, a beloved manager will endure in murals, music and shared memories.
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May 19, 2024
Pakistanis suspect the national intelligence agencies of being behind practically everything — even street performers working for tips in Islamabad.
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May 18, 2024
Ms. Stewart had appeared on CNN as a conservative commentator since the 2016 presidential race. A seasoned political strategist, she also had worked for Republican presidential candidates.
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May 18, 2024
The New York Liberty beat the Indiana Fever in front of a record crowd at Barclays Center, with celebrities and basketball legends there to see the star rookie.
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May 18, 2024
The talks were the first since Iran attacked Israel last month in retaliation for its killing of an Iranian general.
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May 18, 2024
Benny Gantz, a centrist member of leadership, presented the prime minister with an ultimatum that demanded a plan for the future of Israel's war.
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May 18, 2024
The New York congresswoman will become the highest-ranking House Republican to speak before Israel's Parliament since the Oct. 7 attacks, in a move meant to capitalize on Democratic divisions.
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May 18, 2024
After trying to reach him for weeks, officials served him the notice as he left his 80th birthday party. He is expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
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May 18, 2024
The law has triggered protests and threatens to derail the nation's pro-European aspirations in favor of closer ties with Russia.
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May 18, 2024
A traveler used the tower as an anchor to try to pull out a pickup that was stuck in mud at the national park in California.
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May 18, 2024
The suspect in the shooting of the prime minister, Robert Fico, appeared before a judge, who ordered that he would remain in custody until he is charged and tried.
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May 18, 2024
Raids at his homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach were related to an inquiry that a federal official said was at least in part a human trafficking investigation.
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May 18, 2024
The proposed amendment to the State Constitution has become a divisive culture-war issue that encompasses abortion, discrimination and transgender athletes.
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May 18, 2024
His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia's emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a changed landscape there.
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May 18, 2024
Human touch matters.
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