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Newyork
My Father’s Day Gift From the F.B.I.
On an otherwise pleasant day in May 1957, my father received two unwelcome visitors at his tool-and-die factory. They were F.B.I. agents acting on years of informants’ tips that Dad had been a Communist Party member. The agents intended to use that ...
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US
Prosecutors Won’t Bring Charges in Death of Airport Executive in A.T.F. Raid
The federal agent who fatally shot the executive director of Little Rock’s airport was justified in his use of force, a local prosecutor said on Friday.
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Newyork
N.Y.P.D. Detective Wounded in Shootout That Ended With Suspect Dead
The New York officer was shot in the foot at a New Jersey hotel after the police and a man sought in an East Harlem shooting exchanged gunfire, officials said.
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World
Doping Regulator Knew of Previous Positive Tests by Chinese Swimmers
Three athletes who failed drug tests before the 2021 Olympics had tested positive for a powerful steroid several years earlier. They were not suspended in either incident.
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Newyork
Almost 20 Years After She Found Her Mother’s Body, a Cold Case Thaws
She was just a girl when her mother was stabbed to death in the Bronx. Now, an arrest based on DNA has brought her bittersweet relief.
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Books
Sex, Money and Séances: This 1922 Murder Had It All
A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him?
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World
Carnage and Contradiction: Examining a Deadly Strike in Rafah
Fear plagued Saleh Mohammed al-Hila, 37, on that Sunday. “I was lying on the ground of the tent and told my son ‘May God save us from this night,’” he recalled. Hamas had launched rockets at central Israel hours earlier, setting off air-raid sirens ...
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Newyork
Warren Winiarski, Whose Fledgling Cabernet Bested the French, Dies at 95
His $6 bottle of Napa Valley cabernet won a historic tasting in Paris in 1976, astonishing connoisseurs and putting his Stag’s Leap winery on the map.
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World
Accounts of Life in Hamas Captivity Emerge in Israel
The four hostages rescued in Gaza were described as malnourished and traumatized.
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Newyork
Who Am I Without My Voice?
The serious trouble started on Christmas Eve, upstate with family. The Puerto Rican side does not alternate talking and listening — each is done in spirited unison. I was speaking too loudly over other stories and my own glass of wine, fighting a ...