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This Christmas, a Game to Save You From Tears
Are you in need of another Christmas tradition, and a bit of fun? Enter: “Whamageddon.”
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World
Who’s a ‘Colonizer’? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon
The colonial era entered its death throes after World War II. From 1945 through the 1960s, a global order in which European powers took political control of other countries — occupying them with settlers, subjugating the local populations and ...
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World
Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza a Day after U.S. Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution.
Israel unleashed a barrage of airstrikes across Gaza on Saturday, killing dozens of people and sending hundreds of wounded to overwhelmed hospitals, according to health authorities in the territory. The attacks came a day after the United States ...
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US
Apple Is Doing Its Part to End Green Bubble Shaming. It’s Our Turn.
While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity is far from over.
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World
Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time
The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed. They helped researchers prove that they were right.
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The truce between Israel and Hamas held for another day.
Hours after Hamas and Israel completed the fifth exchange of hostages and prisoners, their fragile truce continued into Wednesday, allowing for more people to be released on both sides, as global leaders called for a longer pause in fighting. The ...
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Newyork
Knowing When ‘They’ Means One
I have a proposal about our new usage of “they” to refer to individual people, as in, “Irene? Oh, they left an hour ago” or “Bernard cut themselves by accident.” Because it is so hard to change language by fiat, I know that my proposal here must ...
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Sierra Leone Announces Arrest of 13 Military Officials in ‘Attempted Coup’
The West African nation has not identified the military officials and one civilian it arrested after attacks in the capital on Sunday that left 20 people dead and more than 2,000 prisoners on the loose.
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Newyork
Helping Homeless People Who Are Mentally Ill
More from our inbox: An Immoral Oct. 7 ‘But’Biden and the Israel-Gaza WarFather and Son Trying to Mend a Divide Over Jan. 6Planet Earth Will Survive UsJustin Pena was receiving treatment from a specialized team when he pushed a stranger onto the ...
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They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help
First came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s most vulnerable in dire need. In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing ...