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S&P 500 Hits 2023 Record, Reversing Summer Losses

The S&P 500 has risen over 10 percent from its October low, with November its best month of the year.

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Composting’s ‘True Believers’ Jilted as N.Y.C. Curbside Program Grows

The community initiatives that helped make composting a reality in New York are facing possible budget cuts, and advocates say their loss will be devastating.

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Kissinger Should be Remembered for the Suffering He Caused

His policies toward civilians in the Vietnam War set a template that would be followed by the U.S. for decades.

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At P.S.G., a Coach’s Vision Collides With a Star’s Power

The system may be the center of the modern soccer universe, but stars like Kylian Mbappé exert a gravity of their own.

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Appeals Court Says Jan. 6 Suits Against Trump Can Proceed for Now

The court left open the possibility that the former president could still prevail in his effort to claim immunity from civil cases seeking to hold him accountable for the violence.

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More States Now Require Financial Literacy Classes in High Schools

The surge in offerings is a response to the pandemic, which revealed glaring income inequality, as well as inflation and the resumption of student loan payments, an expert said.

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DeSantis Super PAC Suffers Another Big Staff Loss, This Time Its Chairman

The departure of Adam Laxalt, a longtime friend of the Florida governor, is the latest shake-up inside Never Back Down as it faces questions over the group’s strategy and spending.

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Sandra Day O’Connor’s Legacy Was Undermined by Court’s Rightward Shift

Since her retirement in 2006, the court has dismantled her key rulings on abortion, affirmative action and campaign finance.

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Trump Lawyer Expected to Make First Arguments to Judge in Georgia Case

Donald J. Trump’s lawyers are planning to argue that they need access to lists of the government’s evidence in a related federal case against him, among other things.

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COP28 Climate Summit Begins Against Backdrop of War and Record Heat

World leaders at climate talks in Dubai invoked faith, science and economics in their calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

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A Tense Climate Summit Begins Against a Backdrop of War and Record Heat

World leaders at climate talks in Dubai invoked faith, science and economics in their calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

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Sandra Day O’Connor Is Celebrated as a ‘Trailblazer’

Public figures from across the political spectrum heralded the former Supreme Court justice for breaking barriers for women and striving for consensus on the nation’s highest court.

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Alleged Plot to Kill Sikh Separatist Highlights Thorn in India’s Side

The charges are rooted in a decades-old dispute over the demand by some Sikhs for a sovereign state known as Khalistan carved out of northern India.

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Appeals Court Rules That Jan. 6 Suits Against Trump Can Proceed for Now

The court left open the possibility that the former president could still prevail in his effort to claim immunity from civil cases seeking to hold him accountable for the violence.

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George Santos Is Gone. What Happens to His Seat in Congress?

The New York Republican’s expulsion sets the stage for a high-stakes special election early next year to fill his Long Island swing seat.

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Three American Climbers Solve the 'Last Great Problem in the Himalayas’

Scaling Mount Jannu’s north face without fixed ropes or oxygen was “the greatest climb ever,” one expert said, far more difficult than reaching the summit of Everest.

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From Roommates to Friends to ‘Turbo Twins’

Verity Elks and Benjamin Riches found that while they looked alike, they had opposite, and complementary, personalities. (For starters, one is a big Britney Spears fan.)

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What Is Happening in Vermont?

For many in Vermont, the horror of a shooting of Palestinians was compounded by the violation of the state’s self-image as a uniquely welcoming place.

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The Undoing of George Santos

Lying is one thing in politics. But lying and stealing for the sake of Ferragamo and Hermès?

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Best Movies of 2023

It was a terrific year for film, whether art house or mainstream, even if the main subject the movies wrestled with was deeply pessimistic.

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Farewell to George Santos, the Perfect MAGA Republican

No one embodies Trump’s fame-obsessed sociopathic emptiness like George Santos.

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Jerome Powell Says It’s Too Soon to Guess When Rates Will Drop

The Federal Reserve chair said officials could still raise rates “if” that becomes necessary, and that it’s too soon to guess when they will ease.

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What Sandra Day O’Connor Stood For on the Supreme Court

Forty years after her appointment as the court’s first woman justice, it’s worth reflecting on the path she took.

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Larry McMurtry’s Best Books

A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here’s where to start.

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Israel’s Next Aim Is Southern Gaza. U.S. Urges Restraint.

American officials are making clear to Israel that it cannot pursue a campaign in the south that would have the same devastating consequences as in the north.

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Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom’s Fox News Debate Was a Contest With No Prize

Ron DeSantis, Gavin Newsom and a not-exactly-neutral Sean Hannity staged a campaign debate from an alternative timeline.

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Doja Cat Makes the Leap From the Internet to the Arena Stage

The extremely online 28-year-old singer and rapper’s Scarlet Tour accentuates her flair for big statements.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93

During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.

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Thief in Australia Steals Truck With 10,000 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

A woman thought she was stealing a van. She got thousands of doughnuts as well.

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Surging U.S. Oil Production Brings Down Prices and Raises Climate Fears

American oil production is hitting record levels, delivering economic and foreign policy benefits but putting environmental goals further out of reach.

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