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Sports
Age Is Just a Number as M.L.B. Teams Drop $2 Billion on Free Agents
Baseball was in a spending mood at the winter meetings, where the Mets added Justin Verlander, the Yankees kept Aaron…
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News
Playing Santa Onscreen Takes Much More Than Just Donning a Red Suit
David Harbour, George Wendt and Tim Allen explain the acting challenge that is Jolly St. Nick.
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Magazine
When a Prisoner Swap Is a Rorschach-Test
The scene on the tarmac with Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout didn’t just show a prisoner trade. It told the…
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News
Golf Course on Ancient Earthworks Must Surrender Lease, Justices Say
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state historical society could pay a country club to acquire its lease on…
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News
Eric Allison, Prison Reporter Who Knew the Beat All Too Well, Dies at 79
A career criminal in England for nearly a half-century, he was hired by The Guardian to report on injustices in…
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News
Silver Saundors Friedman, Who Helped Found the Improv, Dies at 89
She ran the famous New York comedy club with her husband for years as they launched the careers of many…
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News
T. Rex Skull Brings $6.1 Million at Sotheby’s, Well Below Estimate
The skull, which weighs more than 200 pounds, was expected to fetch between $15 million and $20 million.
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Health
A Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care?
CASCADE, Idaho — It was 3 a.m. at the 10-bed hospital near the River of No Return, and by every…
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Health
‘Systemic Problems’ Hindered Government’s Pandemic Response, Senate Report Says
An examination by the Democratic staff of the Senate homeland security committee portrayed a government wholly unprepared for the arrival…
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World
An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect
For a month now, politicians, newspapers and classical music stars have been arguing over the future of English National Opera.…