Month: August 2022
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One Woman’s Life in Subsidized Housing, and Her Campaign to Fix It
Most mornings, La Keesha Taylor spends a few minutes in bed with her eyes open after she wakes up, sizing…
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How Soon Is Too Soon to Ask My Landlord About a Rent Increase?
Q: For nine years, my husband and I have rented a market-rate apartment on the Upper West Side. The building…
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Cold-Plunging With Maine’s ‘Ice Mermaids’
When I met Ida Lennestål for a plunge on a cold January day, she was pulling an ax from her…
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White House Communications Director, Set to Depart, Decides to Stay
WASHINGTON — At this point in an administration, with the president’s poll numbers in the tank and a daunting midterm…
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Russian National Charged With Spreading Propaganda Through U.S. Groups
MIAMI — The Russian man with a trim beard and patterned T-shirt appeared in a Florida political group’s YouTube livestream…
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Pac-12 Commissioner Keeps It Professional, but Pointed, After Defections
LOS ANGELES — When the Pac-12 Conference’s schools congregated Friday at a downtown theater for the summer ritual of football…
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House Passes Assault Weapons Ban That Is Doomed in Senate
WASHINGTON — Responding to a string of mass shootings, a divided House passed a ban on assault weapons on Friday,…
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All of Aaron Judge’s Home Runs, From 1 to 40
With a 449-foot blast to left-center on July 29, Aaron Judge of the Yankees became the first player in Major…
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At a LIV Golf Event, Thin Crowds and a Tense Start
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Standing over his ball on Friday, Phil Mickelson, the prized acquisition of the new, Saudi-backed LIV Golf…
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Blinken and Lavrov Discuss Griner in Their First Call of the War
ODESA, Ukraine — The top Russian and American diplomats spoke on Friday for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine…