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Why Odesa Is So Important to Ukraine in the War With Russia
The last two nights have brought some of the most furious Russian aerial assaults on Odesa, the southern Ukrainian port…
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A Cow, a Camel and a Finch Exploded in Space. What Is Going On?
Astronomers have yet to determine the cause of luminous fast blue optical transients, and the latest they have detected is…
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U.K. Inflation Rate Slows to 7.9 Percent, as Price Pressures Ease
The News Consumer prices in Britain rose 7.9 percent in June from a year ago, the Office for National Statistics…
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‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life
Divisions between Democrats and Republicans have expanded far beyond the traditional fault lines based on race, education, gender, the urban-rural…
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World
What We Know About How a U.S. Soldier Ended Up in North Korea
The soldier, Pvt. Travis T. King, was supposed to be on a plane to the United States, but instead he…
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Xi Says China Will Act on Climate Goals at Its Own Pace
The speech by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to Chinese officials came as John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, urged Beijing…
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Stephen M. Silverman, Biographer of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 71
An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing…
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This Green and Expensive Land
Last month, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a note comparing inflation rates among the Group of 7…
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After a Great Flood, a Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Khaled Khalifa’s new novel follows two friends through disaster and religious tension in early-20th-century Syria.
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Smoke Pollution From Canadian Wildfires Returns to Parts of U.S.
Wildfires in western Canada are expected to create smoky conditions in the United States again this week.