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ACT Reports Record Low Scores as Admissions Landscape Shifts
For the high school class of 2023, the average score was the lowest since 1991, and 43 percent of students…
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World
After Biden’s Border Wall Pivot, a Texas County Asks: Why Build It Here?
On the outskirts of Rio Grande City, Texas, Eva Alvarez stepped past the graves of her parents and grandparents before…
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News
Michael Chiarello, Chef and Food Network Star, Dies at 61
His culinary empire included several restaurants, an olive oil company, a winery and retail stores with a robust catalog business.
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Business
Natural Gas Prices Rise on Israel Concerns and Finland Pipeline Leak
Natural gas prices have jumped this week in Europe on worries about supplies stemming from the conflicts in Israel and…
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Style
From LSD to I.P.O.
This may be a tale about the rise of a German sandal brand, but it is not a straightforward fashion…
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Real Estate
$500,000 Homes in New York, Michigan and Georgia
A 1905 farmhouse in Kenoza Lake, a Tudor Revival home in Detroit and a Craftsman bungalow in Atlanta.
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Style
Can Usher Turn America On Again (to R.&B.)?
One Saturday evening in February, the night before the Grammys, Usher, Interscope Records and Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace repurposed the…
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News
How Israel’s 9/11 Tests American Grand Strategy
Twenty-one years ago, in the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, George W. Bush warned of an “axis of evil,”…
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World
In Northern France, Riding the Rails Into the Past
On the tracks of a railway depot in northern France, a steam locomotive puffs out smoke as if it just…
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World
‘Whichever Is Cheaper’: Inside China’s New Thrift Economy
Beijing hopes spending can spur growth, which has been dragged down by slowing real estate sales and exports. But shoppers…