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After a 19-month absence from football, Deshaun Watson started an N.F.L. preseason game on Friday night. Before the game began, the Cleveland …
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NAIROBI, Kenya — As results poured in from Kenya’s cliffhanger presidential election, patrons at a restaurant in Eldoret, 150 miles north of …
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