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Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for…
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$16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Gets Final Green Light
An agreement for the federal government to pay for most of the $16 billion project means the long-delayed plan is…
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Robert De Niro Doesn’t Mind Being Celebrated
Outside the Odeon in Lower Manhattan on Monday night, the bistro’s famed neon sign peeked above a tent shielding celebrities…
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A Candidate Got $162,000 in Public Money. His Secret: Fake Donors.
New York’s new matching-funds campaign system rewards candidates who raise money from small donors, but weak oversight may already have…
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David Boaz, a Leading Voice of Libertarianism, Dies at 70
At the Cato Institute, he argued against government interference in Americans’ lives, including policing their drug use, and supported legal…
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Welcomed Into Joan Didion’s Home, if Not Her Inner Circle
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait…
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She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is…
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Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.
Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new…
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A Rustic Cabin in the Woods Was His Dream. Not Hers.
It didn’t help that it was straight out of ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘Wood on wood on wood, in a very terrifying…
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Menendez Witness Braces for Questions on ‘His Lies and His Cheating’
Jose Uribe, a star government witness, faces cross-examination on Tuesday during his third day of testimony at Senator Robert Menendez’s…