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World
Your Monday Briefing: A Lunar New Year Shooting
Also, New Zealand’s next leader and a Lunar New Year travel surge in China.
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News
Gwen Knapp, Sportswriter Who Looked at the Big Picture, Dies at 61
She was well known in the San Francisco area for focusing on subjects like racism, sexism and drugs, in columns…
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News
What Drunken Driving Taught Me
I hadn’t been to a gay bar in ages. Between Covid and addictive “dating” apps for cruising inappropriately unavailable men,…
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News
What We Know About How to Save Kids’ Lives
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hunger and loss make up a kaleidoscope in Somalia, but one scene stands out in my visit:…
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Arts
In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us)
What’s so funny about his inappropriate response to a boy’s injury? The director pushed to keep the bizarre moment in…
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News
When the Owner Isn’t the (Only) Problem
Wealthy owners are an easy target for fans who want to vent their anger over failing teams. But money isn’t…
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World
‘I Lost My Heart.’ A Haitian Mother’s Fight For Her Child
Trapped by unending violence in the country’s largest slum, a mother makes a desperate attempt to save her teenage daughter.
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News
America, the Bland
Charles Mudede was at the Post Pike Bar in Seattle in November, nursing a glass of white wine and having…
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Books
A Puppet That’s Truly the Stuff of Nightmares
His “stumpy fabric legs” and “little nubbin arms” may seem innocuous, but Pupkin — the star of Grady Hendrix’s new…
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News
Tom Cruise and the Insanity of the Oscars
Did Tom Cruise give an honest-to-goodness performance — one that involved disappearing into a character versus reveling in his own…