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Putin Is Trying to Outcrazy the West
With his annexation of parts of Ukraine on Friday, Vladimir Putin has set in motion forces that are turning Russia into a giant North Korea. It ...
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Wonking Out: How the Remote Work Craze Made Housing Affordability Worse
When you’re telling stories about the economy, housing almost always looms large. It plays a huge role in the economy’s ups and downs: A burst ...
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Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime
Mahsa Amini died, but the hashtag #MahsaAmini lives on. Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 ...
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Dr. Audrey Evans, Cancer Specialist Who Gave Families a Home, Dies at 97
Dr. Audrey E. Evans, a pediatric oncologist in Philadelphia who, seeing that her out-of-town patients’ families sometimes struggled to find ...
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Price of New A.L.S. Treatment Will Be $158,000 Per Year, Maker Says
A new medication for A.L.S., the devastating neurological disorder that causes paralysis and death, will have a list price of $158,000 a year ...
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Sleepy Corner of U.K.’s Pension Industry Forced the Bank of England’s Hand
Plans by Britain’s new prime minister Liz Truss to cut taxes and freeze energy bills landed like a bomb in a niche corner of financial markets ...
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Butter Boards Are In. Spread the Word.
In the past two weeks, butter has been smeared, swooped and spread across all manner of surfaces, and social media, in the name of the butter ...
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Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalization with a familiar mix of feelings. She was, on the one hand ...
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Joe Bussard, Obsessive Collector of Rare Records, Dies at 86
Joe Bussard, who made it his life’s obsession to collect rare 78 r.p.m. records — some 15,000 of them, encompassing jazz, blues, country, jug ...
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Hurricane Ian Brings Wind, Rain and TikTok Followers
Despite living in an evacuation zone, Alecsander Haake did not leave his home in the St. Petersburg area in advance of Hurricane Ian. “My mom had ...