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Paul Coker, Cartoonist at Mad for Almost Six Decades, Dies at 93
Paul Coker, a cartoonist who was best known for using monsters to parody clichés in Mad magazine over many decades…
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World
Boy, 14, Killed in New York City’s Second Teen Gun Death in Two Weeks
A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in the Bronx early Thursday, police officials said. The police found the boy, whom…
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World
Have You Seen This Lamp?
She’s tall and svelte, with a sleek conical hat. She frequents New York City’s most coveted restaurant tables. She lights…
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World
Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, Is Dead
Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and…
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Politics
What Are Burn Pits, and How Did They Harm U.S. Troops?
On bases established for America’s post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military’s trash was often burned in huge, open-air lots on the…
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Books
‘Five Days at Memorial’ Tells the Harrowing Story of a Deadly Choice
It was tense and sweaty on the set of “Five Days at Memorial,” the new Apple TV+ limited series about…
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World
Driverless Cars Shouldn’t Be a Race
I grind my teeth when the metaphor of “a race” is used in discussions about self-driving vehicle technology. Companies developing…
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Books
‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic
Visually sumptuous and narratively tangled, the anime “Inu-oh” takes place in 14th-century Japan. The main story does, at least. It…
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Books
Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations
The electronic vertigo revs up immediately and rarely lets up on “No Rules Sandy,” the fourth studio album by Sylvan…
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Books
The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Army Reserve officers worked with brisk efficiency. For much of the afternoon, they had meticulously…