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Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.
The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as…
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World
Jurors in Bike Path Terror Case Ask What Would Happen if They Acquitted
The panel weighing the fate of Sayfullo Saipov, who could face the death penalty, has sent a stream of questions…
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News
Anti-Gay? Anti-Science? Antisemitic? Run for Governor of North Carolina!
The 2024 governor’s race in North Carolina just got underway. You care. Not because this state is the nation’s ninth…
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News
The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust
In a creative departure, the artist Kenneth Tam spent the last year creating sculptures that honor the lives of Chinese laborers…
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World
Ancient Roman Road’s Beginning Will Remain a Mystery for Now
An archaeological dig that began last summer, searching for the long-elusive “first mile” of the Appian Way, has been stymied…
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World
The Mecca of New York Skateboarding, Back From the Dead?
As a teenager in the 1980s, Jefferson Pang used to get up early on weekends to meet his friends at…
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Business
The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter.
Economic growth remained solid at the end of last year as the strong job market and cooling inflation allowed Americans…
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US
Memphis Awaits Video of a Deadly Police Beating
MEMPHIS — The warnings have come repeatedly in recent days, each worse than the one before: Video recordings of a…
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Magazine
A Fashion Designer’s Lunar New Year Feast
When the fashion designer Han Chong, 43, was growing up on the Malaysian island of Penang in the 1980s, he…
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News
Globalization’s Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning
In “Against the World,” the historian Tara Zahra examines the promise of liberal internationalism in its early days — and…