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Ronald J. Sider, an evangelical Christian author and speaker who, in an era when evangelicals increasingly aligned themselves with the political …
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WASHINGTON — For decades, as prescription drug costs have soared, Democrats have battled with the pharmaceutical industry in pursuit of an …
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America’s job market is remarkably strong, a report on Friday made clear, with unemployment at the lowest rate in half a century, wages rising …
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WASHINGTON — Senator Tammy Baldwin, the soft-spoken liberal Democrat of Wisconsin, was on a plane home from Washington last month when she got …
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A man charged with murder last month in the killing of a Chinese food delivery worker amid a dispute over duck sauce was found dead on Friday …
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It was the day a grand showdown fight in “Prey” was to be shot, and Amber Midthunder felt awful. She was ill, and she had lost her voice. The …
Continue readingSouth Korea Is Scouting Out the Moon, With More Missions to Come
South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there. “We are also considering using the moon as an outpost for space …
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