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U.K. Acknowledges Signs of Race Disparity Over Prosecution Tactic
LONDON — The British government has acknowledged, apparently for the first time, that a key prosecution tactic may disproportionately be jailing ...
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World
How Iran’s Security Forces Use Ambulances to Suppress Protests
In early October, about a month into Iran’s anti-government protests, a Tehran resident reported seeing at least three protesters being shoved ...
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Newyork
‘Racism’ Without Racists
I had a feeling that the piece I wrote last week, on the question of whether the terms “systemic,” “structural” and “institutional” racism were ...
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing: Indonesia’s Death Toll Climbs
Rescuers carried a body bag through the rubble during a rescue operation.Credit...Yulius Satria Wijaya/Antara Foto, via ReutersThe death toll ...
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US
What We Know About the Colorado Springs Shooting
Colorado Springs communities were grieving this week in the wake of a mass shooting on Saturday night that left five people dead and 18 people ...
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World
Your Tuesday Briefing
Rescuers searching for survivors in Cianjur, Indonesia.Credit...Rangga Firmansyah/Associated PressA deadly earthquake shakes Indonesia A ...
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World
Your Tuesday Briefing: Indonesia’s Deadly Earthquake
Rescuers searched for survivors in Cianjur, Indonesia.Credit...Rangga Firmansyah/Associated PressA fatal earthquake in Indonesia At least 162 ...
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World
Powerful Earthquake Kills Dozens in Indonesia
BANGKOK — A strong earthquake struck Indonesia’s main island, Java, on Monday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds more, officials ...
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Newyork
Scientists Don’t Agree on the Cause of Obesity — Does It Matter?
LONDON — A select group of the world’s top researchers studying obesity recently gathered in the gilded rooms of the Royal Society, the science ...
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Newyork
Brooklyn’s in the House. And the Senate.
In the Jonathan Lethem novel “Motherless Brooklyn,” readers learn the phrase “Tell your story walking.” It’s a quintessentially Brooklyn ...