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At Ukraine’s Largest Children’s Hospital, a Horrific Scene of Destruction
Daryna Vertetska was sitting with her 8-year-old daughter in Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday morning when Russian missiles began to ring out in the sky. Her daughter, Kira, was receiving treatment for her cancer as the explosions ...
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World
Russian Court Orders Arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s Widow
The court accused Ms. Navalnaya, who left Russia in 2021, of “participating in an extremist community.” She would be subject to arrest if she ever returns to Russia, the court said.
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Newyork
ChatGPT vs. Me: Who Will Write a Better Beach Read?
What makes a beach read a beach read? Is it an escapist subject matter? A frothy tone? Or is any book you read on a beach automatically a beach read? I’m the author of seven novels and one short-story collection, and I have no idea what the answer is ...
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US
F.T.C. Bars Anonymous Messaging App From Serving Users Under Age 18
The move against the app NGL by the Federal Trade Commission was the first time the agency barred an online service from hosting minors.
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US
U.S. Plans Up to $1.6 Billion in Funding for Packaging Computer Chips
The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.
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News
Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said.
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Newyork
Prosecutors Will Seek to Indict Weinstein on New Sex Crimes Charges
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it was “actively pursuing” a fresh prosecution against the disgraced movie producer. Prosecutors projected a fall trial.
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Newyork
The Case for, and Against, Biden Dropping Out
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ It was once a fringe opinion to say President Biden should drop his re-election bid and Democrats should embrace an open convention. That position is fringe no more. But when the conventional wisdom shifts this ...
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Books
Who Are the Key Players in the Alec Baldwin Manslaughter Trial?
The actor Alec Baldwin was filming the movie “Rust” in New Mexico in 2021 when the gun that he was rehearsing with, which was not supposed to contain live ammunition, went off, firing a bullet that killed the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins ...
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World
Cigarette Smuggling in Gaza Turns Aid Trucks Into Targets
A new problem is bedeviling humanitarian aid convoys attempting to deliver relief to hungry Gazans: attacks by organized crowds seeking not the flour and medicine that trucks are carrying, but cigarettes smuggled inside the shipments. In tightly ...