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Now You Can Legally Buy Recreational Cannabis in New York
The first legal sale of recreational weed took place in a dispensary in Manhattan, just meeting the state’s deadline to…
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World
China Responds to U.S. Covid Testing Rule With a Collective Shrug
The U.S. travel rule drew a muted response in a country grappling with outbreaks and where mass, regular Covid testing…
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This 2022 ‘Best of’ List Includes Swaddling a Chicken
For my last newsletter of 2022, I want to highlight parenting media that I loved this year. I tend toward…
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Business
Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
The tech giant has so far taken steps to streamline without mass layoffs, but employees are girding for deeper cuts.
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Treasury Department Outlines Rules for New Corporate Taxes
The preliminary guidance applies to an alternative minimum tax for large corporations and a tax on stock buybacks, which helped…
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In Praise of Unfinished Basements
They afford us the privileges of escape and reinvention — a place where life is more than what it seemed…
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Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a…
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How Henri Matisse (and I) Got a ‘Beautiful Body’
I had an unforgettable feeling of embodiment once, when my teeth smashed through my lower left cheek. I was a…
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It’s Noche Buena
What Christmas Eve means for these Latino and Filipino households.
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Girl, 5, and Brother, 6, Are Killed in a Staten Island House Fire
The two were among six siblings in the home when flames engulfed the second story, officials said.