World
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Queen’s Jubilee Year Just Started, but Bad News Hasn’t Stopped for Royals
LONDON — In a royal family where scandal seems to rotate among its members with nearly metronomic regularity, one might…
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‘Alcarràs’ Wins Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival
BERLIN — The top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear for best feature film, was given…
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Can This Family Get a Stake in the Big Business of Marijuana?
NEWARK — Bessie White is 78 and determined to cash in on cannabis. Dreaming of financial independence, Ms. White, the…
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Eleven Years After the Sandy Hook Massacre, a $73 Million Settlement
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll look at settlements in two high-profile lawsuits — one filed against the company that manufactured…
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N.Y.’s attorney general recovers $400,000 for consumers who say they were misled by testing labs.
The office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said on Monday that it had recovered more than $400,000 for…
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In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members
In a recall election fueled by pandemic angst and anger, San Francisco voters ousted three members of the Board of…
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After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Critics Attack Harvard’s Release of Therapy Records
In 2020, after Lilia Kilburn, a graduate student, filed a formal complaint notifying Harvard University that an anthropology professor was…
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Hong Kong Can’t Live With the Virus. It Can’t Stop It, Either.
HONG KONG — The scenes were straight out of China’s coronavirus playbook. Armies of workers, deployed to lock down residents.…
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Germany aims to reopen in stages and to lift most restrictions by spring.
Germany’s state governors and Chancellor Olaf Scholz are expected to agree on Wednesday to proceed with a three-step plan to…
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The Olympians Caught Up in the U.S.-China Rivalry
BEIJING — When the figure skater Nathan Chen won an Olympic gold medal for the United States, the state media…