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Why Poverty Persists in America
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In the past 50 years, scientists have mapped the entire human genome and eradicated smallpox. Here in the United States, infant-mortality rates and deaths from heart disease have fallen by roughly 70 percent, and the average American has gained almost a decade of life.
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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, was hospitalized on Wednesday night after tripping at a hotel in Washington, D.C., his spokesman said. No details were immediately available about the 81-year-old Republican’s condition. In 2019, Mr.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence with the International Criminal Court in The Hague gathered by American intelligence agencies about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to current and former officials briefed on the matter.
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Why Do We Change the Clocks, Anyway?
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Hello. You may be here to learn when is daylight saving time, or what is the time that we’re saving, or why does daylight saving time even exist.
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WASHINGTON — The police department in Louisville, Ky.
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WASHINGTON — Hard-right House Republicans are readying a plan to gut the nation’s foreign aid budget and make deep cuts to health care, food assistance and housing programs for poor Americans in their drive to balance the federal budget, as the party toils to coalesce around a blueprint that wil
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Jim Boeheim Out as Syracuse Coach After 47 Seasons
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Jim Boeheim, the Hall of Fame Syracuse coach who became one of the faces of college basketball as the sport rose in stature through his 47 seasons, was abruptly replaced as the team’s coach on Wednesday after losing in a conference tournament.
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Scientists announced this week a tantalizing advance toward the dream of a material that could effortlessly convey electricity in everyday conditions.
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I’m What’s Wrong With the Humanities
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In the responses to a recent death-of-the-humanities dirge, a long reported piece by Nathan Heller for The New Yorker on the decline of the English major, you could see an illustration of its thesis: The story’s most depressing anecdotes were plucked out and swapped around on social media by peopl
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Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
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Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world.
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In an unusual broadside against a major conservative television star, the Biden administration on Wednesday directly criticized the Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his on-air portrayal of the Jan.
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American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel
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Ever since Israel’s founding in 1948, supporting the country’s security and its economic development and cementing its diplomatic ties to the U.S. have been the “religion” of many nonobservant American Jews — rather than studying Torah or keeping kosher.
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5 Times Tucker Carlson Privately Reviled Trump: ‘I Hate Him’
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Documents released in recent weeks as part of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems have revealed extraordinary private communications and depositions from the network’s star hosts and executives.
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The Overdose That Changed My 20s
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After the birth of my first daughter, I wanted to protect her at any cost. As I worried about what could happen to her, I started to think about the person she would be as a teenager. Would she be as limitless as I was as a young adult, pushing at the boundaries of her life?
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For the first time in more than 40 years, Alan Alda and Mike Farrell sat down for a table read of a new scene of “M*A*S*H,” stepping into their old roles of Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt, two bantering doctors in a Korean War mobile surgical unit.
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WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday will propose policies aimed at trimming federal budget deficits by at least $2 trillion over the next 10 years as his administration embraces the politics of debt reduction amid a fight with Republicans over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Mr.
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Trump, Vowing ‘Retribution,’ Foretells a Second Term of Spite
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Donald J. Trump has for decades trafficked in the language of vengeance, from his days as a New York developer vowing “an eye for an eye” in the real estate business to ticking through an enemies ledger in 2022 as he sought to oust every last Republican who voted for his impeachment.
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Ukraine Claims Bakhmut Battle Is Wagner’s ‘Last Stand’
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has been forced to use more of its professional recruits in Bakhmut to replace its depleted supply of enlisted prisoners, who are perishing by the thousands in the longest battle of the war, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
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Is Cannabis Good or Bad for Sleep?
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Q: I take forever to fall asleep and wake frequently throughout the night. I’ve heard cannabis can help — is that true? Few things can throw off your day more than a night of bad sleep.
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Debt Default Would Cripple U.S. Economy, New Analysis Warns
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WASHINGTON — The U.S.
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From the Trenches in Ukraine, We Know Our Enemy Is in Shock
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An infantryman’s least favorite weather is a temperature of 35 degrees Fahrenheit and pouring rain, when the trench floods with knee-deep, near freezing water. Surviving in such conditions is truly an art, and it’s at these moments in particular that a trench has a special energy.
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Joe Biden: My Plan to Extend Medicare for Another Generation
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Millions of Americans work their whole lives, paying into Medicare with every working day — starting with their first jobs, even as teenagers. Medicare is more than a government program. It’s the rock-solid guarantee that Americans have counted on to be there for them when they retire.
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How Judy Blume Finally Got a ‘Yes’ From Hollywood
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The lunches Judy Blume used to have in Hollywood would all go the same way, she said. “Judy, sweetheart, what would you like to do?” the men would ask — and they were always men. “We want to work with you.
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It had been more than a week since the news networks projected that Joseph R. Biden Jr. would become the next president. And Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were at a loss about what to say on the air. “What are we all going to do tmrw night?” Ms. Ingraham, the host of the 10 p.
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Fed Chair Opens Door to Faster Rate Moves and a Higher Peak
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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, made clear on Tuesday that the central bank is prepared to react to recent signs of economic strength by raising interest rates higher than previously expected and, if incoming data remain hot, potentially returning to a quicker pace of rate increases.
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