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More Troops in Afghanistan, but Strategy Is Still Undefined

  • Military experts say that in outsourcing decisions on troop levels to the Pentagon, President Trump has abdicated his duty to defend troop deployments.
  • It is a break with how former President Barack Obama and others handled the difficult task of sending Americans into foreign conflicts.






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Forest Fire in Portugal Kills More Than 60

Many of the victims were motorists trapped in their cars. Prime Minister António Costa described the blaze as “the worst tragedy in terms of human lives that we’ve known in recent years.”



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How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’

What to do with our fondness for the show is profoundly difficult — especially for African-Americans. Mr. Cosby knows what his work means, and he used it during the trial.




Airbnb Tries to Behave More Like a Hotel

Less chatting on the couch; fewer idiosyncratic toiletries in the bath. Pursuing growth, the company promotes consistency among its millions of hosts.




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