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News
A Midwestern Republican Stands Up for Trans Rights
As 2023 slouches to an ignominious end, some news came Friday that gave me an unexpected jolt of hope. I…
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World
Maine Law ‘Required That I Act’ to Disqualify Trump, Secretary of State Says
Barring former President Donald J. Trump from the primary ballot was a hard but necessary call, Shenna Bellows said in…
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Newyork
Six New Yorkers Who Made the City a Better, Cooler, Fairer Place in 2023
In a year that made many of us want to give up, these unsung activists found a way to help…
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World
Need a Home for 80,000 Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle.
Meet the Millers, George and Roxanne, proprietors of the world’s largest collection of mechanical puzzles: physical objects that a puzzler…
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World
Russia Pounds Ukrainian Cities in One of the Largest Assaults in Months
The missile attacks killed at least 12 people and damaged infrastructure as part of a wintertime campaign that Ukraine had…
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World
The Year in People: Our 12 Favorite Saturday Profiles of 2023
From a Nobel Peace Prize winner, to a mayor hunted by the Russians, to a poet whose muses are cats,…
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World
Giant Waves Close Out California’s Remarkable Year of Weather Phenomena
Along the coast, residents on Thursday saw waves that topped 30 feet and flooded beachfront neighborhoods in some areas.
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World
Israel Expresses Regret for ‘Unintended Harm’ to Civilians in Gaza Airstrike
The Israeli military said it was “working to draw lessons” from an attack in central Gaza that was reported to…
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Books
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are…
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Books
Two Watershed Shows About 1993 Help Make Sense of 2023
A blue-chip gallery asks, does the infamous Whitney Biennial or “The Theater of Refusal” measure up 30 years later, when…