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John Bercow
Vacant: 600-Year-Old Job With Top Pay. Perks Include Monarch’s Bed.
The New York Times - By STEPHEN CASTLE
LONDON — For more than 600 years, it has been one of the top jobs in Britain. Perks include an apartment next to Big Ben and better pay than the prime minister. And, if you like the sound of your own —
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Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney Struggles to Explain Comments on Ukraine
The New York Times - By KATIE ROGERS and EMILY COCHRANE
WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, tried again on Sunday to back off assertions he made to reporters last week that the Trump administration had held up an aid package Ukraine
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Obituaries
Nick Tosches, Fiery Music Writer and Biographer, Dies at 69
The New York Times - By NEIL GENZLINGER
Nick Tosches, who started out in the late 1960s as a brash music writer with a taste for the fringes of rock and country, then bent his eclectic style to biographies of figures like Dean Martin and Sonny
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Policing
Fort Worth Police Have More Violence to Answer For, Residents Say
The New York Times - By MANNY FERNANDEZ, SARAH MERVOSH and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
FORT WORTH — Before there was Atatiana Jefferson, there was Jackie Craig, a black woman who called the police to report that her white neighbor had grabbed her son — and found herself pinned to the ground
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Military
3 Soldiers Killed in Training Accident at Fort Stewart in Georgia, Official Says
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Three soldiers were killed and three others injured in a training accident at an Army base in Georgia on Sunday, an official said. The soldiers were in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that was involved in early-morning
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Sports
For the Yankees, Good Is Not Good Enough in the Age of the Astros
The New York Times - Tyler Kepner
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the length of David Price's contract. It is for seven years, not 10. HOUSTON — It happened
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Afghanistan
Pentagon Chief Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan
The New York Times - Thomas Gibbons-Neff
KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper traveled to Afghanistan on Sunday, in his first visit to the country since being confirmed as Pentagon chief amid uncertainty about the administration’s
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Joko Widodo
Indonesian President Is Sworn In Amid High Security and Protest Ban
The New York Times - Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, was sworn in for a second term on Sunday with little public fanfare as security forces were on high alert and protests were prohibited in sign
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Hong Kong
‘I’m Worried That I Will Die:’ Hong Kong Protesters Write Final Goodbyes
The New York Times - Cora Engelbrecht, Orlando de Guzman and Ainara Tiefenthäler
As violence escalates between demonstrators and the police in Hong Kong, protesters have started writing “last letters” to their loved ones, in case they don’t return. These notes chronicle the mental
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News (Hong Kong)
In Hong Kong, Gasoline Bombs, Masks and … Goodbye Letters
The New York Times - By CORA ENGELBRECHT, ORLANDO DE GUZMAN and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER
“When you find this letter, I might have already been arrested or killed.” This is how a 22-year-old protester in Hong Kong began what he worries could be the last letter to his family. He used the pseudonym
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World News
In Switzerland, Hints That the Far Right Has Run Out of Steam
The New York Times - By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
SEELISBERG, Switzerland — Far-right and populist parties have seized influence and power across Europe in recent years, but Swiss voters appear poised to deliver a rebuke in parliamentary elections on
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News
Pelosi Visits Jordan to Discuss Syria Crisis Amid Shaky Cease-Fire
The New York Times - Patrick Kingsley
ISTANBUL — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has traveled to Jordan to meet with the Jordanian king for “vital” discussions about the Turkish incursion into Syria and other regional challenges, amid uncertainty about
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Technology
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle
The New York Times - By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and KEVIN ROOSE
On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media
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World News
In a Deeply Split Israel City, Both Sides Urge Unity
The New York Times - Isabel Kershner
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel — On one side of town, it’s falafel and observing Shabbat. On the other, it’s sushi and the yearning for a Saturday morning coffee at a local cafe. Both sides can be guilty of insularity
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News
In Bracing Terms, Trump Invokes War’s Human Toll to Defend His Policies
The New York Times - Michael Crowley
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — It is the most solemn of rituals for American presidents: comforting the soldiers wounded under his command or the families of those who have died. For generations, presidents
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Defy Ban
The New York Times - Austin Ramzy and Alexandra Stevenson
HONG KONG — Police banned the march. Two of its promoters were attacked. Still, crowds of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in a display of continuing support for the monthslong
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Trump Doral
After Criticism, Trump to Select New Location for G7
The New York Times - By KATIE ROGERS and ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Saturday that he would no longer hold next year’s Group of 7 meeting at his luxury golf club near Miami, a swift reversal after two days of intense criticism over his
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Sports
Chinese State Television Vows ‘Retribution’ Against N.B.A.’s Adam Silver
The New York Times - Sopan Deb
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: This article has been revised to clarify that The South China Morning Post is based in Hong Kong. China Central Television, the state-run
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Sports
Altuve’s Homer Stuns Yankees and Sends Astros to World Series
The New York Times - James Wagner and David Waldstein
HOUSTON — Most every promising season ends in shock. No matter who impresses in June or who makes a run in September, only one team gets to hoist the trophy into the air after winning the World Series.
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News
Cruise Line Bars Woman Who Climbed on Balcony Railing for Selfie
The New York Times - Neil Vigdor
A photograph taken this week on a Caribbean cruise ship quickly gained widespread attention but it wasn’t of a pink-sand beach, a zip-lining adventure or an onboard skydiving simulator. It was of a woman
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Cancer
Dr. Bernard Fisher, Who Revolutionized Breast Cancer Treatment, Dies at 101
The New York Times - Denise Gellene
Dr. Bernard Fisher, a University of Pittsburgh surgeon whose research transformed the way breast cancer is treated, bringing an end to the routine use of the debilitating radical mastectomy, died on Wednesday
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Science
Hikers Find Mystery Skeleton on Remote Mountain in California
The New York Times - Heather Murphy
Had they not gotten off track, a pair of hikers on Mount Williamson, California’s second-highest peak, would have missed it. In a remote area about three hours from the mountain’s summit, a bleached skull
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Opinion
The City Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Would Have Loved to Live In
The New York Times - By DAN KAUFMAN
Since the presidential campaign began, the prospect that socialism would seize the Democratic Party has animated Republicans and created anxiety for many Democrats. Last Tuesday, hours before the Democratic
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News (U.S.)
Tropical Storm Nestor Leaves Path of Destruction in Florida
The New York Times - Mariel Padilla
Tropical Storm Nestor spawned a string of tornadoes that damaged homes, uprooted trees and overturned vehicles as it moved inland over the Florida Panhandle from the Gulf of Mexico, late on Friday and
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Michael Douglas
The Life of Cameron Douglas, From Privilege to Prison and Back
The New York Times - By DAVE ITZKOFF
On the day in 2009 when Cameron Douglas was arrested at a New York hotel for possession of crystal meth, he was given a choice. As he recounts in his memoir, “Long Way Home,” a Drug Enforcement Administration
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Dominican Republic
American Couple’s Death in Dominican Republic Not From Poisoned Alcohol, F.B.I. Says
The New York Times - Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
The F.B.I. ruled out poisoned alcohol as the cause of two American tourists’ deaths in the Dominican Republic in May, bolstering the country’s findings that a spate of tourist deaths this year were not
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Opinion
How Low Will Trump Go?
The New York Times - By FRANK BRUNI
The wonder of the Trump administration — the jaw-dropping, brain-exploding phantasmagoria of it — is that it doesn’t bury its rottenness under layers of counterfeit virtue or use a honeyed voice to mask
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Chicago, IL
Chicago Police Superintendent Seeks Investigation Into Himself
The New York Times - Aimee Ortiz
It was barely Thursday when someone in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago called 911 to report a person asleep in an S.U.V. at a stop sign. When police officers arrived around 12:30 a.m., they found
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Cori Gauff
After Breakthrough Season, What’s Next for Coco Gauff?
The New York Times - Ben Rothenberg
Coco Gauff ended her 2019 season on Saturday by winning the doubles title at the Luxembourg Open with Caty McNally. It was a triumphant finish to a year in which the 15-year-old Gauff broke onto the tennis
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