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Teacher Dead After Stabbing at French School
A suspect was quickly arrested after the attack, which French officials are treating as terrorism.
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In the Beginning Were the Word Nerds
Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the…
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This Is How the Republican Party Got Southernized
In 1969, a young aide in the Nixon White House, 28-year-old Kevin Phillips, published “The Emerging Republican Majority.” Phillips had…
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Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first…
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Post-Punk Legend Leads Fight for Clean Water as Britain’s ‘Sewage Czar’
Feargal Sharkey, best known as the lead singer of the Undertones, has become one of the loudest voices demanding that…
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A New Law Unites Northern Ireland — in Outrage
Catholics and Protestants alike say a commission created by the British Parliament to handle hundreds of sectarian crimes will do…
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Coaches on the Water? No More.
Starting this year, team coaches can no longer ride in chase boats, gathering their data and passing it on. They…
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‘United Because of This Disaster’: Israelis Rush to Volunteer After Hamas Attacks
A long-divided country is pulling together in a show of solidarity, donating everything from breast milk to high-tech help.
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With the World in Crisis, House Republicans Bicker Among Themselves
Despite conflicts overseas and an approaching deadline to avert a government shutdown, Republicans are unable to rise above their internal…
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Prosecutors Issued Error-Riddled Report in Menendez Car Crash
New Jersey prosecutors concluded that Nadine Menendez, Senator Bob Menendez’s wife, should not be charged after she killed a pedestrian…