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News
Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?
Soon after a sweeping courtroom victory in 2018 cleared the way for AT&T’s $100 billion takeover of Time Warner, John Stankey, AT&T’s chief ...
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Sports
The World Cup That Changed Everything
Michel Platini was expecting a private audience with the president of France when he arrived for lunch on a cold day in November 2010. Instead ...
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World
Kim Jong-un Takes His Daughter to Missile Test Launch
SEOUL — As North Korea fired its largest ballistic missile on Friday, the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, appeared at the launch along with his ...
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World
Iranian Protesters Attack Khomeini’s Childhood Home as Unrest Spreads
Three months into a nationwide uprising, Iranian protesters have turned their fury against the founder of the Islamic revolution and of the ...
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Newyork
Carol Leigh, Who Sought a New View of Prostitution, Dies at 71
Carol Leigh, who sought to change the image and treatment of sex workers — a term she is generally credited with coining — through both ...
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US
Suspect in University of Virginia Shooting Had Guns in His Dorm Room, Report Says
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The suspect in the shooting deaths this week of three fellow University of Virginia students had a semiautomatic rifle, a ...
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World
Russia Raises Hopes for Griner’s Release, but U.S. Says It’s Just Talk
A day after the American basketball star Brittney Griner was sent to a Russian penal colony, a top Russian diplomat said on Friday that the ...
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Newyork
3 Women Are Fatally Stabbed in Queens Home
Three women — a mother, her daughter and her stepdaughter — were found stabbed to death in a Queens home on Friday morning, the police said. The ...
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Newyork
The Case for a Less-Effective Altruism
Last weekend, I took my family to Harkness Memorial State Park, a spread of green lawns and gardens that occupies a point on the Connecticut ...
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US
Prosecution and Defense Sum Up in Oath Keepers Sedition Trial
Prosecutors at the sedition trial of five members of the Oath Keepers militia made their final remarks to the jury on Friday, saying that the far ...