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Newyork
Why Nayib Bukele’s Anti-Crime Model for El Salvador Won’t Work in Other Countries
Voters in El Salvador this week gave their tough-on-crime president a sweeping mandate: Keep going. While votes are still being counted, President Nayib Bukele claims he won re-election by a landslide, with more than 85 percent of the vote. If those ...
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News
2024 Begins With More Record Heat Worldwide
On the heels of Earth’s warmest year, January was the eighth month in a row in which global temperatures blew past previous records.
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Newyork
The Political Perils of a Black-Jewish Rift Over the War in Gaza
“There’s no alliance more historic, nor more important, than the alliance between Black Americans and Jewish Americans.” That’s what Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, said in 2020 during his organization’s Black-Jewish Unity ...
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Newyork
American Cities Aren’t Doomed After All
For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder, it was hard to read or talk about the plight of American cities without encountering the chilling phrase “doom loop.” At first, the ...
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Science
A Two-Ton Lifeguard That Saved a Young Pup
In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.
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US
Stop Wearing Vision Pro Goggles While Driving Your Tesla, U.S. Says
Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.
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Newyork
The All-Time-Great Coach Who Makes Football Fun
Andy Reid, the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, has won more than 250 games in his career, fourth all-time, which puts him high on any list of the N.F.L.’s greatest coaches. Most of the others in that pantheon are men who personify the sport’s ...
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World
Blinken Meets With el-Sisi in Egypt to Discuss Plight of Palestinians in Gaza
Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, met on Thursday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt in Cairo to discuss the dire situation of Palestinian civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and what will happen in Gaza when the conflict ends ...
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News
Why Is My Dessert on a Pedestal? 7 New Styles at the Restaurant Table.
At the restaurant ILIS in Brooklyn, your smoked tomato and clam dashi arrives in a giant clamshell, sealed with beeswax and roped shut. At Naks in the East Village, bites of beef tartare on crisped beef fat are ferried to your table on a cow horn ...
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News
Loan Servicers Penalized for Snarls in Resumption of Student Loan Repayments
The Education Department reduced payments to its loan servicers as the consumer bureau spotlighted mistakes.