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News
If You Want Our Countries to Address Climate Change, First Pause Our Debts
When poor countries are forced to default on their foreign debt, as Ghana and Zambia have done, they pay a…
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Business
Interested in an Electric Vehicle? Consider Buying Used.
The prices of used battery-powered models have fallen sharply, as the supply of cars and trucks has improved.
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US
California, Land of the Car, Could Soon Have Speed Cameras
A bill to install cameras has landed on the governor’s desk at a moment when pedestrian deaths are spiking nationwide.
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World
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Rights Activist, Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Ms. Mohammadi, currently held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has pushed for peaceful change in Iran for 30 years, with…
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Business
A New Effort to Make College Aid Offers Easy to Understand
After years of criticism about financial aid letters that are confusing and sometimes misleading, about 400 schools have agreed to…
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Business
A Mega-Deal May Await in the Oil Patch
Exxon Mobil is reportedly in talks to buy Pioneer Natural Resources, a major shale driller, in what would be the…
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Business
Why Are Investors So Jittery?
Stocks are sliding, government bond yields are soaring, and investors are reacting strongly to scraps of economic information that they…
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News
Will Voters Send In the Clowns?
I’m not a historian, but as far as I know, America has never seen anything like the current political craziness.…
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World
Monitor Condemns Rikers Violence as 9th Person Dies in Custody This Year
A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces…
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Business
Higher Rates Stoke a Growing Chorus of Deficit Concerns
A long period of higher interest rates would make the government’s large debt pile costly, a possibility that is fueling…