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News
The Power Vacuum at the Top of the Crypto Industry
A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried and Changpeng Zhao ran two of the largest crypto companies. As they grapple with legal woes, others are jockeying to lead the industry’s next chapter.
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World
Monday Briefing: The U.N. and W.H.O.’s Dire Gaza Warnings
Plus, Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million contract
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World
A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals
Anton Thomas In a hand-drawn map of the world, hundreds of animals sprawl across valleys and volcanoes, deltas and deserts. In Australia, marsupials abound: A snarling Tasmanian devil stands before craggy Cradle Mountain, while a stubby brown wombat ...
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News
Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels
A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive, to advance oil and gas deals.
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Sports
World Peace in 2024? The Olympics Has a Plan but Not Much Hope.
Amid two prominent wars and other conflicts around the globe, a biennial call at the United Nations for peace during the Games felt even more symbolic than usual.
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Newyork
Farewell to the U.S.-China Golden Age
A lunch meeting about China this summer at the Upper East Side headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations felt more like an Irish wake. A crowd that included gray-haired China hands and not-so-gray-haired tech executives shared memories of ...
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News
In a Report Card on Global Warming, Nations Get a Very Poor Grade
Countries are taking “baby steps,” a U.N. official said. In a separate study, Saudi researchers warned of an “existential crisis” for their nation from rising temperatures.
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Newyork
Searching for Humanity in the Middle East
We’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organize their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality. The first paradigm that failed this month ...
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Books
As ‘Billions’ Ends, Its Creators Discuss the Changing Face of the Ultrarich
In an interview, the showrunners discussed its imminent conclusion and the rise of billionaires who believe they are “making the world a better place.”
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Newyork
The Exhibition Making the Case for Art Without Men
Loved in her day, the French painter Marie Laurencin depicted a dreamy vision of a world of women. What does she have to say to audiences now?