Is This the End of Summer as We’ve Known It?

Wildfires. Drought. Monsoons. Sewage spills. A resurgent virus. The summer season we thought we knew has become something ominous.

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Vaccinated People May Spread the Virus, Though Rarely, C.D.C. Reports

The agency cited an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., in which most of the infected were immunized. An internal C.D.C. document paints an even more harrowing picture.

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How Strong Is Trump’s Grip on the G.O.P.?

Weaker than he wants, but strong enough to win the nomination once again.

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UCF to use hologram technology in health education

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School custodian finds new career in classroom

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Woman loses fiancé, mom, grandmother days apart

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World's biggest bottle of soap in Virginia Beach

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Father-son duo kayak for families in need

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Neighbors find 2 deer hit with arrows

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25 injured after trains crash in Boston

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Aunt charged when bodies found in trunk

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University to hold in-person commencement

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FBI joins woman's 'gruesome' stabbing death

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Renovated amphitheater hosts first concert in 2 years

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Pharmacists: Parents are forging birthday for kids

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Suni Lee's 1st coach reflects on gold medal win

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Charges filed in alleged decapitation

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Rally for health director targeted with racist attacks

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ICE flights bring immigrant detainees into Louisiana

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Suspected heat-related death being investigated

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At least 6 tornadoes across Wisconsin

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Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword

Plays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.

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Uganda Detains Weight Lifter Who Went Missing in Japan

Ugandan authorities said they were looking into possible fraud in the case of the 20-year-old who went to Japan hoping to compete in the Olympics even though he failed to qualify, and has since returned.

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Critics Pounce on Naomi Osaka After Loss, Denting Japan’s Claim to Diversity

The tennis star, who lit the Olympic cauldron, took a drubbing on social media, with some questioning her identity or right to represent the country.

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N.Y.P.D. Officer Fired After Trial Finds He Raped Girl

Two officers engaged in “shocking professional and sexual misconduct” with a 15-year-old, a disciplinary trial judge wrote, but they have not been criminally charged.

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Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means

In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new books from Kristen Radtke and Lizzy Stewart, as well as a first graphic novel from Anne Carson.

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Weight Lifting, an Original Olympic Sport, May Be Dropped

Lifting’s international federation has failed to fully address concerns about bribery and doping. If it doesn’t, the Olympic committee may eject the sport from the Games.

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For U.S. Lifters, It’s Fly, Then Clean and Jerk

Weight lifting officials in the United States are hoping an unusual pre-Olympic camp in Hawaii, capped by last-minute trips to Japan, will pay off in medals.

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What if the Unvaccinated Can’t Be Persuaded?

To reach herd immunity, we need a different approach. 

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The Best Thing to Eat When It’s Hot

In paneer con tomate, bright and juicy acidity finds a perfect partner with bites of fried cheese.

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10 All-Stars Traded in MLB's Wildest Trade Deadline Ever

Max Scherzer and Trea Turner going to the Los Angeles Dodgers highlighted a week in which 10 of this year’s All-Stars were traded.

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Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Inspired a Hit Song, Dies at 76

He and Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones were inseparable in the late ’70s, and when Mr. Weiss’s romantic life took a turn, Ms. Jones memorialized it in “Chuck E.’s in Love.”

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3 expelled by Bowling Green State University in relation to hazing death of student

Bowling Green State University in Ohio announced on Friday that it has permanently expelled three students and suspended 17 in connection to the death of a sophomore participating in fraternity hazing in March of this year.

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Consumer spending and incomes rose while a key measure of inflation dipped in June

A key measure of inflation showed price increases slowing down in June, while Americans' incomes and spending rose — signaling better-than-expected momentum in the economic recovery.

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Opinion: The Biden administration has a life-or-death decision to make about Afghanistan

As America's war in Afghanistan comes to an end, many see the inevitable parallels to Vietnam -- a long aimless war, a determined enemy ready to out bleed us, and now an evacuation reminiscent of the chaos of Saigon's final hours.

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On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats.

The company’s response to pandemic cancellations? An eight-city tour with sleeper buses and a foldout stage to perform outdoors.

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From ‘Call My Agent!’ to Hollywood Career

The French series was a pandemic hit in the United States. And now its star, Camille Cottin, is emerging to find herself in demand.

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Fact-checking RNC false tweet about Surgeon General's masks comments

The recent change of mask guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created some confusion and also ample opportunity for political attacks against President Joe Biden's administration, some of which rely on misinterpretations from partisan sources.

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Susan Rice: Biden is keeping his promises to Americans with disabilities

After the accident, Tyree Brown could barely write her own name. The 2015 car crash injured her spine and rendered the 26-year-old Maryland artist quadriplegic, paralyzing parts of her upper and lower body. Lengthy stints in rehab and a nursing home followed, coupled with painstaking occupational therapy. Beautiful portraits that had once taken Tyree five days to draw can now take her up to a month.

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Senate confirms Biden's pick to serve as US Citizenship and Immigration Services director

The Senate confirmed Ur Jaddou to serve as US Citizenship and Immigration Services director on Friday, delivering the agency a permanent head -- and the first woman to hold that position -- after years of acting leadership.

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Senate votes to move ahead on trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure deal

The Senate took the next step on Friday to bring up a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that will fulfill key priorities in President Joe Biden's agenda.

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Opinion: The Washington horror movie that could have a happy ending

Moving major legislation through Congress in these bitterly polarized times is like living through a horror movie. The ground is constantly shifting and there are endless near-death experiences. You can't be sure of anything until the final credits roll.

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Broadway theaters to require vaccinations for audience and staff

As the Delta variant sweeps across the US, Broadway has become the latest to issue guidelines regarding vaccinations.

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Democrats Try to Win Back Latino Voters After 2020 Election

Did Democrats take the Hispanic vote for granted in 2020? Some in the party think they did, and can’t afford the same mistakes going forward.

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American Ballet Theater’s Executive Director Announces Her Departure

Kara Medoff Barnett, who has held the post for the last five and a half years, will leave later this year.

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Inside a Covid I.C.U., Hopes Fade as Patients Surge In

Doctors and nurses in a Florida hospital thought the onslaught of coronavirus admissions had ended. Now they need more intensive care beds.

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Man allegedly broke family pet's leg w/ broomstick

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From homeless to hopeful, this artist says 2020 was a 'blessing'

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Toledoans donate bodies for education

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Video shows road rage suspect follow victim

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Family of boy thrown from balcony sues mall

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Family creates private school for homeschoolers

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For Sale: Dallas mansion with no bedrooms

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At least 4 tornadoes confirmed

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Father says Police not giving answers about death

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How Covid Became a Red-State Crisis

The geography of this wave is nakedly political.

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What’s Ripping American Families Apart?

The U.S. seems to be in the middle of a pervasive psychological decline.

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Governors and local school boards reignite the mask mandate fight in wake of CDC's newest guidance

The mask mandates are coming back -- and so, too, are mandates against mask mandates.

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Goldman Sachs is taking a hard line on employee vaccinations. Other big banks are following its lead

All eyes are on Wall Street as the Covid-19 Delta variant continues to spread and Corporate America starts rolling out vaccination policies.

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Fourth Suicide at the Vessel Leads to Calls for Higher Barriers

A teenager killed himself Thursday afternoon at the tourist attraction, located in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards.

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Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Release

The star said making the film available on Disney+ at the same time it opened in theaters “dramatically” lowered box office revenue, which could cost her tens of millions of dollars.

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Corporate America to workers: Either get a Covid vaccine or leave

Get the shot or take a hike.

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World's biggest food company says prices are going even higher

The world's largest food and beverage company is introducing even bigger price hikes as commodity and transportation costs surge.

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Pioneering TV pitchman Ron Popeil dies at age 86

Infomercial king Ron Popeil died "suddenly and peacefully" Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement provided to CNN by Popeil representative Eric Ortner.

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Former Dance Instructor Accused of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit

Mitchell Taylor Button was accused of abuse, and his wife, Dusty Button, a dancer with a large Instagram following, was accused of participating in some of it but not named as a defendant.

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Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds

Lily James of “Downton Abbey” plays a die-hard romantic in an adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s classic comic novel.

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In Hungary, an Embattled L.G.B.T.Q. Community Takes to the Streets

Thousands of people attended the Budapest Pride march, defying efforts by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban to marginalize the country’s L.G.B.T.Q. community.

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A Foreign Agent in Trump’s Inner Circle?

Even amid a glut of scandals, Tom Barrack’s arrest is a big deal.

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George Washington Feared for America and Other Truths About the Founders We’ve Frozen in Time

The generals, politicians and dreamers who made America didn’t always like what they’d wrought. 

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Passport delay ruins woman's Jamaica vacation

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Michigan among top states in automotive making

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PD issues public health announcement

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Accused stalker purposely crashed stolen SUV

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The Robocall Rebellion

Among the nonlethal problems currently facing the nation, robocalling looms large just for raw irritation.

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‘The Hot Doctor’ Finds a Life Partner Close to Home

It took Dr. Ryan Weight almost a year to ask Jerri Hobdy out on a date. However, it only took one bubble tea outing to solidify their connection.

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FedEx facility shooter who killed 8 was not motivated by bias, officials say

Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old shooter who killed eight people in a FedEx facility earlier this year, was not motivated by racial bias or ideology, according to officials.

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Did You Move During the Pandemic?

We’d love to hear from you if you found a new home.

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Two Colorado officers arrested in use of force incident police chief calls a 'very despicable act'

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Brooklyn Plumber Charged in Capitol Riot

Prosecutors said Daniel Christmann posted images online that showed him inside the Capitol.

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Return of the Family Values Zombie

Children need real help, not empty rhetoric.

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Covid Aid Programs Spur Record Drop in Poverty

The most comprehensive study yet of the federal response to the pandemic shows huge but temporary benefits for the poor — and helps frame a larger debate over the role of government.

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Man found guilty in 1976 killing of couple

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Biden stays close to home as he plots blue-collar focused presidential travel

Want to see President Joe Biden in person? Consider a move to Pennsylvania.

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Biden meets with Belarusian opposition leader at the White House

President Joe Biden met with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Wednesday morning, as part of her larger campaign to ratchet up international pressure on the Lukashenko regime.

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