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The Teenage Baller Behind the ‘Super Fly’ Brittney Griner Hoodies
For more hours now than she can remember, Isabella Escribano sat on the orange couch inside her garage, iPad in…
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Defending U.S. Open Champion Emma Raducanu Loses in the First Round
Emma Raducanu, who won last year’s U.S. Open as a little known 18-year-old qualifier without losing a single set, will…
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Rikers Guards Watched as Man Bled From Razor Wound
Two correction officers and a captain failed to act for at least ten minutes when a mentally ill man slit…
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This Is the Other Way That History Ends
The End of History was supposed to have happened back in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and Francis…
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Are You Ready for Your Fall Booster?
A new booster campaign is just around the corner. Moderna and Pfizer’s vaccines, which have been updated to target the…
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West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall
For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York have walked beneath a panel…
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Roland Mesnier, Pastry Chef to Five Presidents, Dies at 78
Roland Mesnier, the inventive White House pastry chef whose ambrosial and whimsical desserts briefly shifted the weight of office from…
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Ruby C. Williams, Folk Artist With a Produce Stand, Dies at 94
At a produce stand in a rural part of Florida east of Tampa, Ruby C. Williams would sell you some…
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Why Anthony Fauci’s Covid Legacy Is a Failure
In 2019, Anthony Fauci was seen as a charming but no-nonsense doctor who had served the public for five decades.…
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that…