The owner and two employees of a tavern in South Africa where 21 teenagers were found dead under mysterious circumstances last month have been arrested and charged with selling alcohol to minors.
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Prices in the U.S. surged 9.1% in June from a year ago. The reading is bad news for Americans at a moment when their wages are falling further behind the nation’s soaring cost of living, and ramps up pressure on the Fed to continue raising interest rates.
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Voters who said abortion, guns or threats to democracy were the biggest problem facing the country backed Democrats by a wide margin, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. nyti.ms/3PlWNIc
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The Jan. 6 committee is laying out evidence that could allow prosecutors to indict Donald Trump, though the path to a criminal trial is uncertain. Here are the main themes that have emerged in each hearing.
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"They were frantic, they were scared, they were screaming."
A ferry captain who saved a woman from a boat that capsized in the Hudson River said Wednesday that the scene of terror would become an indelible memory. Two people died in the accident.
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Health food or exercise alone isn’t enough to prevent chronic disease, new research shows.
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Rishi Sunak, a former chancellor of the Exchequer, stayed at the front of the pack of candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain after the first round of the Conservative Party’s leadership contest on Tuesday.
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Gasoline prices in the U.S. have declined 28 days in a row — the longest decline since early 2020, offering some relief to drivers. Weather, war and demand will help shape whether the decline can be sustained.
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President Biden argued, in an interview, that Israel was made more vulnerable in 2018 when Donald Trump withdrew from a nuclear agreement reached under the Obama administration. Israel will be safer, he said, with a renewed accord.
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Spider Webb, a renowned tattoo artist known for his intricate designs and for efforts to overturn the law that made tattooing illegal in New York City for decades, has died. He helped promote tattooing as a form of artistic expression.
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President Biden’s approval rating is in the 30s and nearly 80% of voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction. But Democrats and Republicans are in a close race for control of Congress this year, a New York Times/Siena College survey shows. nyti.ms/3yFXPIe
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Ilya Yashin, a prominent Russian opposition politician and a longtime ally of Aleksei Navalny, the imprisoned opposition leader, was ordered to be kept in custody for two months after he was accused spreading false information about the Russian Army.
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Two towns in Sardinia — Perdasdefogu and Seulo — are battling it out for the distinction of having the longest-living residents. But who truly holds the title? nyti.ms/3o2pbUe
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Inflation remained painfully high in June, with prices in the U.S. climbing 9.1% from a year ago. The number was higher than economists expected and spelled trouble for consumers and the Federal Reserve as it tries to contain rapid price increases. nyti.ms/3ICnOF3
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President Biden “is traveling thousands of miles to attempt to repair a relationship that has reached a nadir in its 80-year history — arguably even worse than after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,” writes Yasmine Farouk in a guest essay.
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NEW TIME: The crypto crash has wiped out $2.1 trillion. Tech stocks have plunged. Layoffs have begun. Startup funding is scarce. Join , and as they discuss crypto and the tech economy. DM questions to .
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As outrage mounts over Brittney Griner's continued detention, the WNBA star has become a living symbol of the limits of American power — and of the U.S. government’s finite ability to protect its citizens abroad, writes Amanda Taub.
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NEW: NYT poll on views on US democracy -- 58% of Americans believe their system of government does not work and needs needs major reforms or a complete overhaul.
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A homeless man was arrested on Wednesday and is expected to be charged with murder and attempted murder in the stabbings of three homeless men, one fatally, in the last week, the police said. The men were all sleeping outdoors in Manhattan when attacked.
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Trust in U.S. democracy across nearly all demographics and ideologies is wavering as voters believe their system of government does not work, a New York Times/Siena poll found. Almost 60% of voters say the system needs reform.
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Rusia necesita más soldados para sostener su guerra en Ucrania. Receloso del riesgo político de un reclutamiento nacional generalizado, el Kremlin promete fuertes incentivos en efectivo y emplea tácticas de mano dura para compensar el déficit de personal.
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President Biden arrived in Israel, nearly 50 years after his first trip as a senator, on Wednesday to open his Middle East visit to focus on slowing down Iran's nuclear program, getting oil to American gas pumps and improving relations with Saudi Arabia. nyti.ms/3NZDqU5
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Sri Lanka plunged deeper into crisis on Wednesday as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed acting president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country. Wickremesinghe vowed to retake government buildings overrun by protesters. nyti.ms/3c8k7uD
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News Analysis: Now in the Middle East, President Biden will have to toe the line between his strategic goals abroad and his political vulnerabilities back home.
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Most of the Ukrainians who have fled Russia’s invasion want to return home after the conflict subsides, but a small number are already planning to go back to areas seen as safer from conflict, according to a survey released by the UN refugee agency.
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A Secret Service employee working in Israel before President Biden’s visit this week was sent home Monday after being briefly arrested by the Israeli police for “a physical encounter,” the U.S. agency said. It didn't involve sexual assault, officials said.
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The owner of Sweet & Vicious, a Manhattan bar and restaurant, has reached an agreement to pay $500,000 to be split among at least 16 employees. Workers were subjected to repeated slurs and sexual harassment, the New York State attorney general said.
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Thousands of demonstrators are angry about Sri Lanka's economic crisis and demand that the president and prime minister step down. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed president of the country, vowed to retake government buildings overrun by protesters. nyti.ms/3P3pABu
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A 26-year-old protester in Sri Lanka died after being exposed to tear gas fired by security forces during a protest outside prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office in Colombo on Wednesday, according to a civil society group.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe was made prime minister of Sri Lanka in May, after protests forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to remove his brother. Now, as acting president, protesters view Wickremesinghe as a protector of the Rajapaksas. Their concerns have not abated.
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Prices in the U.S. rose 9.1% in June from a year ago, a 40-year high that defied expectations of moderating price pressures. Food, rent and gas were among the categories that recorded the biggest increases, further squeezing Americans’ budgets. nyti.ms/3o1iUYG
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Ray Epps was taped before Jan. 6 urging people to go to the Capitol. Then he became the face of a conspiracy theory by pro-Trump forces that the FBI was behind the riot. Since then, he's been forced to sell his home and his business — and go into hiding.
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Today we're beginning a series exploring the lives and work of artists driven far from their homelands amid the growing global refugee crisis. Here's on the students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, starting over in Lisbon.
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New details about a December 2020 meeting between Donald Trump and advisers emerged during the Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday. The “unhinged” event became known as an inflection point in Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the election.
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New: Since becoming the unlikely face of the one of the biggest Jan. 6 disinformation campaigns, Ray Epps has lost his home, his business, friends, relatives and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He now lives more or less in hiding in a trailer park.
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“Florida was something different, even if I didn’t realize it at first. Being asked to lie about that trip wounded me in some imperceptible way,” Joshua Hunt writes in a guest essay. “Soon after we returned I started telling lies of my own.”
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Democrats and Republicans begin the midterm campaign with voters split on which party they'd prefer to control Congress
Among registered voters: D 41, R 40
Among likely voters: R 44, D 43
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Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are set to meet in Istanbul on Wednesday, in the increasingly desperate effort to release huge amounts of grain from Ukraine’s ports. Officials have tried for months to break the impasse. nyti.ms/3IynuXO
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Before the James Webb Space Telescope's images were made public, a small team — a mix of astronomers, press officers and science communicators — gathered to select which pictures to share after they had first signed NDAs to ensure no early leaks.
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