Politics
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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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Wildfires Rip Through France, Again, Weeks After Last Heat Wave
PARIS — France is burning. Throughout the country, and for the second time in less than a month, dozens of…
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Blinken Urges Rwanda and Congo to End Support for Warring Militias
KIGALI, Rwanda — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that he had urged the leaders of Rwanda…
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Erdogan and Putin: Complicated Relations With Mutual Benefits
BRUSSELS — Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is in political difficulty before elections next year, with his economy imploding…
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‘Everybody Is Armed’: As Shootings Soar, Philadelphia Is Awash in Guns
PHILADELPHIA — The 300th killing of the year took the life of Lameer Boyd, an 18-year-old father-to-be who was gunned…
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How New York City Lost 63 Miles of Pedestrian-Friendly ‘Open Streets’
When city life was throttled by the pandemic, cars were removed from five blocks of 31st Avenue in Astoria, Queens,…
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As China Vows More Military Exercises, Taiwan Is Undeterred
If China’s show of force over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip was meant as a deterrent, it has not had the…
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How New Zealand’s Climate Fight Is Threatening Its Iconic Farmland
GISBORNE, New Zealand — Horehore Station, a sheep and cattle ranch, sprawls across 4,000 acres on New Zealand’s North Island,…
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Rishi Sunak Has a Sterling Résumé. It’s Not Helping Him Replace Boris Johnson.
CARDIFF, Wales — Just a few weeks ago Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, seemed well-placed to become…
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North Korea Says Its Covid Outbreak Is Over
SEOUL — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said the country had brought its coronavirus outbreak to an end without vaccines,…