World
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U.S. Open Commits to Fund-Raising Exhibition Match and $2 Million for Ukraine
For weeks this spring, the leaders of the United States Tennis Association debated whether to allow Russian and Belarusian players…
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Rumors spread quickly in wartime Ukraine.
They lived in an abandoned house in a forest next to a small village. They survived on mushrooms and berries.…
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Bolsonaro Is Afraid of Going to Jail, and He’s Right to Be
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “I’m letting the scoundrels know,” President Jair Bolsonaro told supporters last year, “I’ll never be imprisoned!”…
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We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House
A video of a North Carolina beach house being dismembered by a voracious ocean was a viral hit this spring.…
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Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t
When I was a junior in college, I joined the rowing team. The unthinkably expensive boats gliding down the Charles…
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Your Pandemic Puppy Was Not a Mistake
NASHVILLE — It was a Saturday night, close to midnight, when the weird little cough erupting from our dog Rascal’s…
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I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them
OXFORD, Miss. — Before classes start Aug. 22 at the university where I teach English, I’ll locate my new classroom,…
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China’s Military Drills and Other Tensions With Taiwan, Explained
China said on Monday it would hold new drills near Taiwan, a sign that Beijing may keep up a drumbeat…
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Freed From Prison in China, Taiwan Activist Urges Resistance to Beijing’s Threats
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Li Ching-yu was desperate to send her husband a message. It was September 2017. Her husband, Li…
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The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West
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