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In New Zealand, Maori Wardens Take a Different Approach to Crime

The strategies used by the Indigenous community policing alternative are in stark contrast to more muscular tactics pitched by the incoming government.

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Could Longevity Drugs for Dogs Extend Your Pet’s Life?

Longevity drugs for our canine companions are moving closer to reality. They also raise questions about what it might mean to succeed.

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Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China.

Chinese families are sending money overseas, a sign of worry about the country’s economic and political future. But a cheaper currency is also helping exports.

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Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China.

Chinese families are sending money overseas, a sign of worry about the country’s economic and political future. But a cheaper currency is also helping exports.

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Egypt Wiped Out Hepatitis C. Now It Is Trying to Help the Rest of Africa.

Effective drugs that have made the disease curable have yet to reach most of the region.

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Bidder Aims to Save Bankrupt Trucking Firm Yellow

The plan would put Yellow back on the road with thousands of unionized drivers, but would force the government to wait longer for a loan repayment.

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Hamas and Israel Extend Cease-Fire for 2 Days, Qatar Says

The extension, and another exchange of hostages and prisoners, raised hopes that more people would be set free and more humanitarian aid would reach people in the Gaza Strip.

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A Jewish Teacher Was the Target of a Student Protest at Hillcrest High School

The New York schools chancellor promised disciplinary action but also called for understanding students’ viewpoint after hundreds at a Queens high school protested against a Jewish teacher.

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Nikki Haley Is Coming for Your Retirement

Wall Street’s new favorite is far from a populist.

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Amid Parthenon Dispute, Sunak Cancels Meeting With Mitsotakis

After the prime minister of Greece called for the British Museum to return the Parthenon marbles, his British counterpart abruptly called off their meeting.

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Israel and Hamas Agreed to Extend Their Truce, Qatar Says

Also, Biden plans to skip the U.N. climate summit. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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5-Year-Old Boy and Parents Are Stabbed to Death in Bronx Apartment

The child and his mother were found in their apartment, and the boy’s father lay dead in a hallway. Police investigators were questioning a relative.

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Missing COP28 Summit Complicates Biden’s Climate Credentials

The president is facing some pressure to focus on oil drilling and gas prices at home, while boosting climate ambition on the world stage.

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What We Know About Israeli Hostages Hamas Released on Monday

The group comprises women and children only, all of them taken from Nir Oz during Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7.

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N.Y. Cannabis Board Settles Suits, Paving Way for Dispensaries to Open

Regulators agreed to a settlement that would save 436 retailers from losing their licenses.

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Biden Campaign Aims to Weaponize Trump’s Threat to Obamacare

The president’s aides quickly jumped on a statement by Donald Trump that he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the health law.

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Supreme Court Looks for Middle Ground on Mandatory Gun Sentences

A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses. But which offenses count?

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Arizona Legislators Must Testify About Voting Laws, Supreme Court Rules

Two Republican lawmakers had argued that they could not be questioned about their motives for supporting the laws, which require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.

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A Three-Year Cruise Is Canceled for Lack of a Ship

Passengers will not be visiting Machu Picchu, the Pyramids of Giza or indeed be going anywhere.

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Two Men Are Exonerated in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders

Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.

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Suspect in Vermont Shootings Arraigned on Charges of Attempted Murder

Jason J. Eaton, 48, of Burlington, was charged with shooting three college students of Palestinian descent on Saturday outside the building where the police said he lives.

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Young Thug’s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know

Hip-hop collective or street gang? In a blockbuster case against the famed Atlanta rap crew YSL, headed by Young Thug, prosecutors say it is both.

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Circular Walks Outside London

A handy guidebook outlines 27 bucolic walks outside the British capital that begin and end at train stations. We tried some out.

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Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories

An Energy Department program designed to create jobs and manufacturing in communities reliant on fossil fuels is backing projects in West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere.

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Mars Needs Insects

If humans are ever going to live on the red planet, they’re going to have to bring bugs with them.

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Could Biden’s Clean Energy Push Be a Victim of Its Success?

Thanks to the president’s signature legislation, solar energy manufacturing is booming in Georgia, a key state in the 2024 election. But the industry now worries that it could be too much and too fast.

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A New Match for Menopausal Weight Gain: Ozempic

Weight gain is one of the most common concerns among women going through menopause. New drugs could change that.

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How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets

The poets’ fellowship, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of the genre’s most important accolades.

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Warnings Emerge Over Emirati A.I. Firm G42’s Ties to China

American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.

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After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine

The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be kept out of the aggressor’s hands.

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