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What We Know About the Colorado Springs Shooting
Colorado Springs communities were grieving this week in the wake of a mass shooting on Saturday night that left five…
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Magazine
I’m Going to Ukraine. Do I Have to Tell My Parents?
I work for an international medical-aid nongovernmental organization. I usually have a perfectly safe desk job at headquarters. Recently I…
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US
Crowded and Deadly, U.S. Jails Are in Crisis
Matthew Shelton was contending with diabetes and periodic substance abuse when he moved in with his sister outside Houston in…
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Politics
The Education of a Special Counsel
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to take over the investigations of Donald Trump, has…
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US
How to Spend $1 Trillion? Mitch Landrieu Wants a Say.
ELM CITY, N.C. — Inside this brick-walled town hall just feet away from a freight train line, a crowd of…
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World
How Wild Turkeys Find Love
As spring bursts forth, wild turkeys begin the mating game. Groups congregate in lawns and fields — and sometimes in…
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World
China’s Grandparents Are Done Babysitting and Ready to Go Viral
HONG KONG — The 65-year-old woman crouches in a field and holds up a head of cabbage. Behind her, two…
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Politics
Eastern Europe Was the Crucible of Modern Football. Now It’s a Wasteland.
There is a theory that, other than Uruguay at the inaugural tournament in 1930, every World Cup winner has been…
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US
Does Fusion Voting Offer Americans a Way Out of the Partisan Morass?
One of the great paradoxes of America’s polarized political system is that people seem to hate it, yet few can…
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World
Your Tuesday Briefing
Rescuers searching for survivors in Cianjur, Indonesia.Credit...Rangga Firmansyah/Associated PressA deadly earthquake shakes Indonesia A ...