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Alvin Moscow, Shipwreck Chronicler and Prolific Collaborator, Dies at 98
After writing a best seller about the sinking of the Andrea Doria, he was a co-author with Richard M. Nixon,…
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Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts
Thousands of antigovernment protesters on Saturday filled a central Tel Aviv thoroughfare, the same street where demonstrations riled the nation…
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Randy Sparks, Founder of the New Christy Minstrels, Dies at 90
With a keen eye for young talent, he helped boost the careers of Steve Martin, John Denver, Kenny Rogers and…
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Murder Trial Lays Bare a Hip-Hop Pioneer’s Double Life
In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep…
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How the Manager of a Gourmet Grocery Store Spends His Sundays
Scott Goldshine has worked at Zabar’s in Manhattan for decades. He roams the aisles on Sundays, snacks on rugelach and…
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My Mother Got on a Bike. It Changed Her Life.
When my mother was 62 years old, she dusted off a clunky Cannondale with Mary Poppins handles and joined a…
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With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return?
An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the…
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Charles Sallis, 89, Dies; Upended the Teaching of Mississippi History
He collaborated on a textbook so unsparing in its review of the state’s grim past that it was barred from…
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7-Year-Old Son of Houston Church Shooter Still Struggling to Survive
Samuel, born three months premature, had already faced challenges for much of his life as his mother battled mental illness,…
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The Meaning of the Super Bowl ‘He Gets Us’ Ad
During Super Bowl Sunday, a 60-second ad aired about Jesus Christ, and no one seemed angrier about it than Christians.…