Year: 2023
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World
Justice Dept. Threatens to Sue Texas Over Migrant Arrest Law
In a letter addressed to Texas’ governor and attorney general, a D.O.J. official wrote that the federal government had sole…
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Israeli-American Thought to Be a Hostage Was Killed on Oct. 7, Her Family Says
Judih Weinstein Haggai, a 70-year-old who was believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, was actually killed during the…
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Friday Briefing: A Pattern of Rape and Torture on Oct. 7
Also, migration to the U.S. and the threat to art from A.I.
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‘Almost Naked’ Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives
Outrage over scantily clad socialites highlights the growing contradictions of a society reshaped by the war in Ukraine.
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Snow Shortages Are Plaguing the West’s Mountains
Some ski areas remain closed. But an even greater concern amid a changing climate is whether enough snow will fall…
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Food
‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but…
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Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance
Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of…
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Simpleton? Genius? Who was Tom Smothers?
He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the…
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How Cancer Has Influenced, but Not Controlled, a Musician’s Work
“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has…
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are…