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How TSMC’s Arizona Chip Plant Seeded a Tiny Taipei in the Desert

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a global tech giant, brought thousands of workers from Asia to the Phoenix suburbs for jobs at a plant that the Biden administration helped fund.

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The Children Who Left Gaza

Sixteen young people evacuated from Gaza for treatment of dire injuries. Months later, they face new lives in an unfamiliar country.

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New York Raises These Pheasants to Be Shot. Is It Hunting or Cruelty?

Some lawmakers hope to end a program that is meant to introduce children to field sports but that critics say makes the birds easy targets, if they don’t die another way.

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Boeing 737-800, a Precursor to the 737 Max, Is Used Widely.

Nearly 200 airlines use the 737-800, which makes up about 15 percent of the world’s fleet of aircraft.

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Departing Air Force Secretary Will Leave Space Weaponry as a Legacy

Frank Kendall, who grew up on an apple farm and then rose to the pinnacle of the U.S. military, has preached the need for better preparation for the next big fight.

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Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence

A Times investigation shows how extensively Israel penetrated the Lebanese militia, closely tracking the group’s commanders and culminating in the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

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A Large Family Built Its Own Little Town. A Hurricane Killed 11 of Them.

The extended Craig family has suffered an unthinkable loss after landslides slammed into their North Carolina town during Hurricane Helene. The survivors are trying to move forward.

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How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million

The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills.

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The Gift of Traveling Through Time

The diary I kept this past year offers me an express ticket back to beautiful moments I’ve lived.

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Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan

With the war now over, the Taliban are welcoming foreign travelers, even as governments advise their citizens to stay away.

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How An Underground Church for L.G.B.T. Africans Has Thrived in Kenya

The congregation in Nairobi, Kenya, has been forced to move to 10 different locations over 10 years, and yet it has survived as a sanctuary in an increasingly hostile environment.

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South Korea’s Acting President Has Only Been in Office Since Friday

After two impeachments of leaders in two weeks, the country is deep into a political crisis.

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Dayle Haddon, Model and Actress Who Bucked Age Discrimination, Dies at 76

Ms. Haddon, who carved a path all her own in the modeling world, was found dead on Friday morning from what authorities believed was a carbon monoxide leak.

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Trump Weighs In on Immigrant Visa Debate but Offers Little Clarity

He said in an interview that he had used the visas for skilled workers “many times.” But he has mainly used visas for unskilled workers like housekeepers.

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Plane Crashes in South Korea

The plane, with 181 people on board, was trying to land when the accident happened.

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How Donald Trump Went From Calling for a TikTok Ban to Backing Off

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

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Netanyahu to Have Prostate Removal Surgery

The prime minister was diagnosed with an infection from a “benign enlargement of his prostate.”

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1 Person Killed and at Least 4 Injured in Texas Tornado

A tornado that touched down in Brazoria County struck some homes and other structures on Saturday, the authorities said. It was a day of tornado warnings in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

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State Dept. Designates American Teacher Held in Russia as ‘Wrongfully Detained’

Marc Fogel was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced in 2022 to 14 years in prison by the same court that handled the case of Brittney Griner.

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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right AfD

The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections.

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Severe Storms Cause Travel Delays Across the U.S. as Tornadoes Threaten the South

More than 7,000 flights were delayed on Saturday amid threats of rain, snow and tornadoes across the country.

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Breaking Was Supposed to Break Out in 2024. It Didn’t.

It was a 50-year journey from the streets of New York to the Paris Olympic Games. But a would-be celebration turned into something of a debacle.

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Interior Dept. Is Caught Between Tribes in Casino Battles

The Biden administration’s consideration of three proposed tribal casinos in California and Oregon has touched off a fierce debate about tribal sovereignty and land rights.

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Guards Who Beat Robert Brooks Were Accused of Assaulting Inmates Before

Three of the 13 guards implicated in the savage beating of Robert Brooks had been accused in lawsuits of earlier attacks in New York prisons.

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What I Am Looking for in Empty Churches

In that quiet space there is solace, a silence like nothing else.

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Amid Israel-Hezbollah Crossfire, Fish Farmers Stay Put

The war with Hezbollah has cleared out the north of the country — save for a hardy few and their thousands of prized fish.

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Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92

Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the dangers of nuclear war.

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Putin Apologizes but Stops Short of Taking Responsibility for Kazakhstan Crash

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”

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Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new administration in Syria.

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Joe Biden, the Presidency and the Messiness of Being Human

Blame is simplistic. Might I suggest that there is another way to understand what happened with the president? A more humane way?

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