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Books
Why Jay-Z’s Big Tonys Duet With Alicia Keys Was Offstage
The two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they performed on a grand marble staircase outside the auditorium.
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Newyork
George Norcross, Democratic Power Broker, Is Charged With Racketeering
New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew Platkin, had been investigating tax breaks that benefited companies close to Mr. Norcross.
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News
Looking for Friends? How About 23 Housemates?
An engineer who moved from London to New York was planning to live alone, but ended up doing just the opposite — and loving it.
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Newyork
The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield
Anna didn’t want to keep her feelings secret. As far as she knew, neither did D.J. In recent weeks, their relationship had changed, and it wasn’t clear when or how to share the news. ‘‘It’s your call,’’ she said to him in the lead-up to a meeting ...
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Books
His Family Survived the Nazis by Living in a Chicken Coop
A new museum exhibit on the Holocaust focuses on eight narratives, including the account of a man whose family escaped death by hiding on a family farm.
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World
Train Crash in India Leaves at Least 8 Dead and Dozens Injured
The death toll was expected to rise after a passenger train and a freight train collided in the state of West Bengal.
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Newyork
The Queen Bee of Bidenomics
The best dinner party I’ve attended all year took place at a conference held at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. It was a family-style meal, arranged to make you ask the person sitting next to you to please pass ...
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World
Pregnant in Gaza With Nowhere to Go
Before the leaflets fell from the sky telling her to evacuate, before all that was left of her home was its western wall, before the food shortages left her baking her own bread, before her daughters slept under a chalkboard in an abandoned ...
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US
After Splash Park Shooting, Michigan Community Feels a Familiar Pain
The violence in the city of Rochester Hills, which injured nine people including children, comes three years after the shooting at Oxford High School in the same county.
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Books
Review: Camille A. Brown Still Holds the Harlem Stage
It was a sign of her generosity that her program this weekend was almost all work by her associates.