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Europe
Are Wedding Sneakers the Ultimate Power Flex?
Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage, this time to Elena Zhukova, seemed a casual affair, though some disapproved of the suit-sneaker combination.
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America
Margot Benacerraf, Award-Winning Venezuelan Documentarian, Dies at 97
She made only two films, but her “Araya,” a rumination on the daily rituals of salt-mine laborers, became an enduring…
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America
Terry Robards, 84, Dies; Lifted Fine Wines in America as a Times Critic
In columns and notably “The New York Times Book of Wine,” he introduced Americans to European and premium domestic varieties…
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America
Washington Post Newsroom Reels From Sudden Editor Exit
Sally Buzbee, who has been editor of The Washington Post since 2021, chafed at a major reorganization by newspaper’s chief…
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Real Estate
The Make-or-Break Question for a New Roommate: Do You Drink?
A Brooklyn woman who has been sober for three years needed a roommate. But alcohol would not be allowed in…
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Books
Young, Restless and Fired Up in the Cool Gray City of Love
Francine Prose’s new memoir, “1974,” looks back at her brief but transformative relationship with a countercultural champion.
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America
The 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age
This story contains graphic images of violence and death. Let’s get this out of the way first: Of the dozens…
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Opinion
How a Heat Wave Could Become a Catastrophe
On a recent Thursday evening, a freakish windstorm called a derecho (Spanish for “straight ahead”) hit Houston, a city of…
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Opinion
First They Came for My Country’s Future. Now They’re Destroying Its Past.
On the evening of April 14, 2023, I was at a concert in Khartoum. The end of Ramadan was near,…
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Europe
Prosecutor Drops Murder Charges Against Minnesota Trooper Amid Pushback
The prosecution of Ryan Londregan, a white Minnesota state trooper who fatally shot a Black motorist last year, sparked rare…