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Science
Scientists Press Congress on Dismissal of National Science Foundation Board and Research Funding
More than 2,500 scientists said in a letter to Congress on Monday that President Trump’s dismissal of the National Science…
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Lawmakers Urge Trump to Move Ahead on Delayed Arms Sale to Taiwan
A bipartisan group of senators is pressing President Trump to move ahead with a long-delayed $14 billion weapons package for…
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Business
As Trump Heads to Beijing, China Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ for a Fight
Peace and stability will be the public message when President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, meet in Beijing this…
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Quebec Novelist Shines a Harsh Spotlight on Migration, and on Trump’s America
The protagonist in the novel “It Was Either That or Die” departs Haiti on an epic journey through South America,…
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Health
This 4-Week Challenge Will Actually Help You Get Off Your Phone
Most of us spend five or more hours a day on our phones, and research suggests that the long hours…
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Style
Amitav Ghosh Brings the Main Character of ‘Ghost Eye’ to Life, With the Help of a Sketch Artist
The Indian-born, New York-based writer Amitav Ghosh, 69, begins his new novel, “Ghost Eye” (out this June from Farrar, Straus…
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The Fight to Euthanize Pablo Escobar’s Hippos in Colombia
When night falls in the small Colombian village of Doradal, the quiet is broken by the wet, heavy thuds of…
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Science
As Coal Rebounds, More Mercury, a Potent Toxin, Is in the Air
Coal-fired power plants across the country released more mercury last year as power demand surged, reversing a yearslong downward trend…
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Style
What Can I Do About See-Through White Pants?
I love white, off-white and cream pants for women (and men for that matter), but unless they are jeans, they…
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Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow
On May 31, 2001, a former Pakistan army captain named Tahawwur Hussain Rana swore the oath of citizenship in front…
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