Year: 2024
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The Capital of Women’s Soccer
The success of Barcelona’s team has made Catalonia a laboratory for finding out what happens when the women’s game has…
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Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe
Extreme heat and other weather challenges are in the forecast this summer, and travel advisers, tourists and local officials are…
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The Cannes Love Affair With American Cinema Takes Unexpected Turns
Whether it’s Demi Moore’s performance in “The Substance” or Sean Baker’s tale of a Brooklyn sex worker, this year’s jury…
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An Extraordinary Documentary About the Most Precious of Lives
Margreth Olin’s “Songs of Earth” works almost like a poem as she records her parents and the Norwegian landscape.
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A Lender to Consumer Start-Ups Falters, Rattling Its Clients
Ampla, which lent money to smaller businesses that sold clothing, home furnishings and other items directly to consumers, is struggling…
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Life in the Dirt Is Hard. And Climate Change Isn’t Helping.
Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according…
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These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down.
Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.
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Australia’s ‘National Crisis’ of Domestic Abuse
The government has committed hundreds of millions of dollars for people fleeing domestic violence, but among those who work with…
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China Has a Plan for Its Housing Crisis. Here’s Why It’s Not Enough.
A new approach by China’s top leaders is bold but pales against the problem: a vast number of empty apartments…
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Friday Briefing
We’re covering a stumbling U.S. aid effort in Gaza and the latest Chinese military drills around Taiwan.