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5 Numbers to Know About the Coming Heat Wave
Stifling conditions are forecast to spread this week over the eastern half of America — and linger for days.
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News
Steve Albini’s 10 Essential Recordings
The musician and audio engineer, who died on Tuesday at 61, gave artists including Nirvana and PJ Harvey an authentic…
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News
The Bragg Case Against Trump Is a Historic Mistake
About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of…
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News
Lost Tapes From Major Musicians Are Out There. These Guys Find Them.
For decades, recordings left at studios have languished in storage rooms and basements. Master Tape Rescue, a company of two…
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World
A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’
A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Ireland’s civil war into a model…
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US
What Are the Largest Wildfires in U.S. History?
The Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle is now one of the largest fires the country has faced. Here…
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World
Murder Trial Lays Bare a Hip-Hop Pioneer’s Double Life
In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep…
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Sports
Kelvin Kiptum, Marathon World Record-Holder, Dies at 24
Kiptum, who came tantalizingly close last year to breaching the mythical two-hour barrier in the marathon, was killed in a…
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Sports
Super Bowl Viewership Rose to 123.4 Million, a Record High
The figure easily exceeded last year’s 115.1 million, capping off a big year for N.F.L. ratings.
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Business
See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot.
Month after month, global temperatures didn’t just break records, they smashed them. This year could be even warmer.