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A Grammy-Nominated Singer Performs and Explores Music’s Deep Power Over Us
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ In times of deep sorrow or joy, humans have always turned to music. Archaeologists…
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Death in Navy SEAL Training Exposes a Culture of Brutality, Cheating and Drugs
CORONADO, Calif. — Kyle Mullen always had the natural drive and talent that made success look easy. Until he tried…
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A Surprise Senate Race Rises Out West
GRANBY, Colo. — It was a bit tense for a groundbreaking ceremony. Against the striking backdrop of the enveloping Rocky…
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Serena Williams Rises to the Occasion, Like So Many Times Before
It was an opening night at the U.S. Open that could have been the closing night of Serena Williams’s 27-year…
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I’m a Ukrainian Soldier, and I’ve Accepted My Death
IVANKIV, Ukraine — Recently, one of the companies in our battalion returned from a mission in eastern Ukraine. When we…
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Jill Biden Tests Negative for Coronavirus After Rebound Case
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden, the first lady, tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a rebound case had forced…
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Serena Williams Keeps Focus Amid the Fanfare
The lights went down, a long pause ensued, and out of the tunnel emerged the champion everyone had been waiting…
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Biden to Focus on ‘Battle for the Soul of the Nation’ in Prime-Time Speech
WASHINGTON — President Biden will travel to Pennsylvania on Thursday to deliver a rare prime-time speech on what the White…
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Serena Williams’s No. 1 supporter is her daughter, Olympia.
Serena Williams won the Australian Open in 2017 when she was pregnant. Her daughter, Olympia, is now 4 (she turns…
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The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation
In May the literary critic Christian Lorentzen published a Substack newsletter about being bored. “Hollywood movies are boring. Television is…