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As Harris Courts Sun Belt, Housing Costs Stand in Her Way

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 3:53pm
Shuttered factories and trade deals helped turn working-class Midwesterners against Democrats. Will the high cost of housing do the same in the Sun Belt?
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Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 2:39pm
Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.
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Trump’s Behavior at the Al Smith Dinner

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 1:37pm
Readers respond to a Maureen Dowd column and a Campaign Notebook. Also: The need to vote; the education crisis; dead trees; Juan Soto’s magic.
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The TikTokification of Social Media May Finally Be Its Undoing

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 1:31pm
A case involving TikTok may have opened the door to holding platforms liable for the damage they cause.
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Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 1:26pm
If Trump wins, we’re going to be saddled with an isolationist and nativist conservative movement for generations to come.
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Liberty Finally Give New York City a Basketball Championship

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 12:34pm
New York got its first basketball championship in 48 years, as the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx in front of exuberant fans in Brooklyn.
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The Deeply Personal Price Women Must Pay for Abortion Bans

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 12:25pm
Exceptions to save a mother’s life don’t matter when doctors fear performing the procedure.
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Putin Brings Together Economies He Hopes Will Eclipse the West

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 12:00pm
The Russian leader hopes to use the meeting of the so-called BRICS group, which includes China and India, as a counterweight to the West.
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What We Know About the Georgia Gangway Collapse on Sapelo Island

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 11:57am
Disaster struck at the end of an annual cultural celebration on Sapelo Island. Twenty people went into the water, including seven people over the age of 70 who died.
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Yahya Sinwar Is Dead, but a Palestinian State Still Seems Distant

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 11:44am
A two-state solution remains the goal of the United States and the West, but many in the region say the devastation in Gaza and the lack of effective Palestinian leadership make it a remote prospect.
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Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and the Enduring Symbolism of McDonald’s

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 11:35am
McDonald’s tells a story about what both candidates think is possible for working people.
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A Major Push to Protect Nature Is Happening Now

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 11:19am
Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history.
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A Crack, a Shift, Then Screams: Witnesses Describe Georgia Dock Collapse That Killed 7

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:52am
Investigators have begun looking for reasons behind the failure at a ferry dock on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people.
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Book Review: ‘Patriot,’ by Alexei Navalny

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:43am
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
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When Critic vs. Choreographer Ignited a Cultural Firestorm

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:30am
Thirty years ago, Bill T. Jones presented “Still/Here,” and the critic Arlene Croce responded with an explosive essay. Now the work is returning to the Brooklyn Academy.
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Inside the Last-Ditch Hunt by Harris and Trump for Undecided Voters

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 9:44am
Both campaigns are digging through troves of data to find these crucial Americans. They both think many are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women.
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Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 9:10am
The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.
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Yankees and Dodgers Take Another Swing At Their World Series Rivalry

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 8:57am
Even as the sport and the country have changed, the rivalry has produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments.
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First Sickle Cell Gene Therapy Patient, 12, Leaves Hospital

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 8:49am
After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against.
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Scientists Are Mapping Landslide Risk in Alaska. Some Homeowners Don’t Want to Know.

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 8:20am
Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.
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