American
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World
Biden to Allow Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia
The permission is intended solely for Ukraine to attack military sites in Russia being used to attack the Kharkiv area, U.S. officials said.
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News
Biden Doesn’t Want You Buying an E.V. From China. Here’s Why.
The president wants to shift America’s car fleet toward electric vehicles, but not at the expense of American jobs or national security.
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World
The Cannes Love Affair With American Cinema Takes Unexpected Turns
Whether it’s Demi Moore’s performance in “The Substance” or Sean Baker’s tale of a Brooklyn sex worker, this year’s jury will have a lot to ponder.
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US
U.S. and Niger Announce Withdrawal of American Personnel by September
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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Newyork
Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato
The right attacks colleges and universities as leftist and woke. Progressives castigate them as perpetuating patriarchy and white privilege. The burdens of these culture war assaults are compounded by parents worried that the exorbitant costs of ...
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World
‘Taking Venice’: The Strange Story of the U.S. Government and a Painter
The documentary offers a glimpse of how the arts were treated very differently in midcentury America.
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Newyork
Don’t Slam the Door on Inexpensive Chinese Electric Vehicles
President Biden came out swinging this week when he announced a series of steep tariffs on Chinese imports, including 25 percent on certain steel and aluminum products, 50 percent on semiconductors and solar panels and 100 percent on electric ...
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Books
The Massacre America Forgot
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
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Newyork
The End of TikTok Is a Propaganda Win for Beijing
When President Biden signed a bill requiring that TikTok be divested from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, members of Congress hailed the law as a blow to Beijing. They shouldn’t be so quick to celebrate. The law would at best partially mitigate the ...
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Books
One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.