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Charles Kimbrough, Actor Best Known for ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 86
In a career that included a Tony nomination for “Company,” he specialized in playing uptight characters, notably Candice Bergen’s stuffy…
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‘My Heart Skipped a Beat When I Saw Her Across the Tracks’
An encounter at the Union Square station, a prank on a fall day and more reader tales of New York…
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‘Bad Apples’ or Systemic Issues?
On Wednesday, the city of Memphis remembered the life of Tyre Nichols, a young man who was beaten by at…
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YouTube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up.
My life so far has often been distilled to numbers: 1.7 million subscribers, 1.8 million total followers, 155 million views.…
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The Great Construction Mystery
Here’s something odd: We’re getting worse at construction. Think of the technology we have today that we didn’t in the…
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Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System.
Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that’s…
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Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters
For the 26th time in two years, the Texas attorney general Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit in federal court…
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‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon
Bowen Yang played the balloon wreckage as it floated off the Eastern Seaboard, in a wide-ranging episode hosted by Pedro…
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George Santos Is Accused of Sexual Harassment in His Capitol Office
The complaint was made by a man seeking work as a House aide, whose bid for a job was rejected…
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Fred Terna, Creator of Fiery Holocaust Paintings, Dies at 99
A prisoner at Auschwitz and three other camps, he dealt with his trauma in semiabstract art that depicted crematories, ovens…
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