In trying to rein in Iran’s nuclear program, the Trump administration faces a thorny dilemma. Part of it is of the president’s own making: In 2018, President Trump pulled out of the existing nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action …
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Facing the Realities of Severe Autism
Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child.
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Trump, Raking In Cash, Expands His Power in the G.O.P. Money World
President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had long been one of the party’s final remaining redoubts of Trump skepticism. For years, the …
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Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?
What happened to learning as a national priority? For decades, both Republicans and Democrats strove to be seen as champions of student achievement. Politicians believed pushing for stronger reading and math skills wasn’t just a responsibility, it …
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Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the dense layers of the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the Russian state …
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A Jewish Promised Land in … Texas? Rachel Cockerell Had to Know More.
Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.”
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New Crime Novels With Unexpected Twists
South of Nowhere By Jeffery Deaver Colter Shaw is a professional “rewards seeker,” a skilled tracker who specializes in finding missing people — usually for the reward money, though sometimes out of the goodness of his heart. It’s a simple enough …
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The Shifting Conversation Around Canada’s Opioid Crisis
President Trump’s claims about fentanyl trafficking have played a role in refocusing Canada’s attention on border control.
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‘Sinners’ Box Office Success Puts It in Elite Company
The horror movie from Ryan Coogler is on a pace to collect at least $330 million in worldwide ticket sales, a level reached by few original films in the genre.
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