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Your Wednesday Briefing: A Race to Dominate the Metaverse
We’re covering Microsoft’s huge bet on the metaverse and the contenders at the Australian Open. Playing Call of Duty: Black…
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Trump’s Dream of a Border Wall, Twisted Into a Sci-Fi Nightmare
Sometime around 2018, a teenager in a blazer and bluejeans stood in desert scrubland near Las Vegas and made a…
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Business
How Microsoft Bought Activision Blizzard
Microsoft sees Activision Blizzard, and its games like Call of Duty, as key to its future.Credit...Benoit Tessier/ReutersHow the Activision deal…
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Sports
The Nets Are in Third Place and the Knicks Are Clicking. Now What?
The Knicks and the Nets, as Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. of “The Sopranos” might say, are at the precipice of an…
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World
Blinken Will Meet With Russia as U.S. Pushes for More Diplomacy
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will meet with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia on Friday…
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Business
In Quest for Energy Independence, Mexico Is Buying a Texas Oil Refinery
DEER PARK, Texas — Two giant murals, on storage tanks at an oil refinery here, depict the rebels led by…
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Business
British Cabinet Minister Calls for the End of the BBC License Fee
Over the weekend, a British government minister attempted to deal a death blow to the main source of funding for…
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Sports
What Happened in Sunday’s N.F.L. Games
The N.F.C. side of the N.F.L. playoff bracket began to whittle Sunday with the Buccaneers thoroughly dispatching of the Philadelphia…
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Business
The Week in Business: A Ruling on Vaccine Mandates
Credit...Giacomo BagnaraWhat’s Up? (Jan. 9-15) What’s Next for Vaccine Mandates The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration ...
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World
Russia Issues Subtle Threats More Far-Reaching Than a Ukraine Invasion
VIENNA — No one expected much progress from this past week’s diplomatic marathon to defuse the security crisis Russia has…
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