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Eastern Europe Was the Crucible of Modern Football. Now It’s a Wasteland.
There is a theory that, other than Uruguay at the inaugural tournament in 1930, every World Cup winner has been…
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News
What Stage of Capitalism Is Sam Bankman-Fried?
How do you make a multibillion-dollar company disappear in a week? For Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX, the…
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US
‘No Fowl Play’: Biden Pardons a Pair of Thanksgiving Turkeys
WASHINGTON — Two lucky turkeys, named Chocolate and Chip, were spared their lives on Monday, but not from hearing about…
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World
Everyone Is on a Long and Forlorn Search for Goals
AL-RAYYAN, Qatar — There were crosses fizzed low toward Josh Sargent, trimming the turf as they went, and crosses arcing…
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Man Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of 3 Women in Queens Home
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Virginia in connection with the killings of three women — a mother, her daughter…
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Bao Tong, 90, Dies; Top Chinese Official Imprisoned After Tiananmen
Bao Tong, who was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in mass…
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A Strong Start Slips Through Americans’ Fingers in World Cup Opener
AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Walker Zimmerman wagged his finger in the air from where he lay sprawled out on the…
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Magazine
A Jewelry Designer Finds a Scent as Unique as Her Latest Avant-Garde Ring
On a mild fall morning in Paris, Gaia Repossi, the 36-year-old artistic director of the Italian fine jewelry house Repossi,…
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World
New York’s L.G.B.T.Q. community is on edge after the attack.
On Saturday, revelry at a gay bar in Manhattan was interrupted for the fourth time this month by someone throwing…
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US
John Roberts’s Early Supreme Court Agenda: A Study in Disappointment
WASHINGTON — After finishing his first term on the Supreme Court in 2006, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was…