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Your Friday Briefing: Covid Protests Grow in China
Videos showed workers protesting at Foxconn’s iPhone factory in central China.Credit...via AFP— Getty; via Reuters, via AFP— GettyCovid anger ...
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The parent of a tech giant known as ‘Russia’s Google’ wants to cut ties with the country.
The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, wants to cut ties with the country to shield its…
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Balloons, Crowds and Poultry-Shaped Hats: A Thanksgiving Rite Springs Eternal
“With a retinue of clowns, freaks, animals and floats, the bewhiskered man in red, in sight of thousands of persons,…
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Giving Thanks for a Beloved Sugar Maple
Standing under the old sugar maple, I want to sing a hymn. Kneel down and pray. Its tall branches tower…
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Your Thursday Briefing: Bombs Kill a Teenager in Jerusalem
Aryeh Schupak, a 15-year-old yeshiva student, was killed in the bombings.Credit...Mahmoud Illean/Associated PressBombs explode in Jerusalem Two ...
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The World Took a Bold, Toothless Step Forward on Climate Justice
The United Nations climate conference that concluded last weekend in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, did not appear, at the outset,…
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Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code. Called…
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He’s a 25-Year-Old Gun Control Activist. Now He’s Heading to Congress.
Don’t let his tender age fool you: Maxwell Alejandro Frost has been doing this for a while. Frost was only…
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Court Leaves New York City School Budget Cuts in Place
After a monthslong court battle over the New York City public school budget, a state appellate court on Tuesday allowed…
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U.S. Officials Offer Hopeful Tone on Covid as Winter Nears
Federal health officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that the nation was better prepared to weather a surge of Covid-19 infections…