America
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The Nation’s Top Scorer Plays for a School and a People
They lined up for blocks along Amsterdam Avenue in December, standing in the cold for two hours, hoping to squeeze…
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‘All He’s Looking for Is a Sincere Shot’
During his first preseason as the Miami Dolphins’ head coach, in 2019, Brian Flores spoke with emotion about the social…
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At CNN, Personal and Corporate Tensions Collide After Jeff Zucker’s Exit
One by one, the name-brand news anchors filed in: Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and some two dozen of…
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A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival
A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in the waters of Antarctica, resulting in one of the greatest survival…
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Was He Really Having a Heart Attack?
The 67-year-old man dropped heavily into the plastic chair inside the Alta Mountain resort in Utah. It was his third…
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Poem: She Ties My Bow Tie
I find love poems hard to write (and to read) because they can so easily teeter on the edge of…
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Judge John Hodgman on Slurping Noodles
Nash writes: I slurp my noodles, even spaghetti. It’s the best way to eat them, and culturally appropriate in certain…
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Which Figure Skaters Have a Good Shot at Gold?
Olympic figure skating began Friday morning in Beijing with the team event, in which men’s and women’s singles skaters, pairs…
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G.M. workers in Mexico pick an independent union, a trade deal test case.
Workers at one of the largest General Motors plants in Mexico voted to adopt an independent union on Thursday in…
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Biden Vows to N.Y. Officials That He Won’t ‘Abandon Our Streets’
Amid a rise in murders in cities across the nation, and intense Republican efforts to paint Democrats as hostile to…