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Former Manhattan Dist. Atty. Robert M. Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals including mob kingpins, drug-dealing killers and a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died Sunday.
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Puerto Rico’s embattled governor — who had gone almost entirely silent amid mass protests for his resignation — said Sunday that he wouldn’t seek reelection. -
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition secured a majority but not the super-majority needed to propose constitutional revisions, according to vote counts.
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Heat and humidity grip the East Coast
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Tear gas is fired in latest confrontation in Hong Kong between police and the protesters calling for electoral reforms.
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In an audio recording released Sunday, a British naval officer insists that a British-flagged oil tanker must be allowed to sail through the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian paramilitary forces demand that the vessel change course before commandeering it.
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It seems everybody has a close relative in the United States. The exodus is driven by economics.
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He was a Taliban commander in Afghanistan for 15 years. Then it hit him: ‘I was destroying my own country’
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Japan placed restrictions on exports to South Korea of materials essential to its semiconductor industry amid an impasse between the two governments over reparations dating from World War II. It’s part of a trend among some of the world’s most powerful nations.
Apollo 11: 50th Anniversary
Nearly 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. A woman could follow in his footsteps in 2024. Here’s what we know about her.
Multigenre, elegant, wildly popular: The Apollo 11 moon landing embodies a time when TV played a profoundly different role in American lives.
The California Science Center, Nixon Presidential Library, Hollywood Bowl and others present moon rock, space-themed music and more to mark the 50th anniversary.
We asked our readers for their memories of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing as it nears its 50-year anniversary. These are their stories.
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A female suicide bomber strikes outside a hospital in Pakistan as the wounded were being brought in from an earlier shooting.
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Puerto Ricans upset over corruption, callousness and other issues tied to Gov. Ricardo Rossello plan a second week of protests seeking his resignation.
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A heat wave canceled events from festivals to horse races and pushed New York City to order power-saving steps to avoid overtaxing the electrical grid.
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A law signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sets the nation’s most aggressive targets for reducing carbon emissions.
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Maine has expanded aid for hundreds of asylum seekers who have arrived in the state’s biggest city this summer and is asking the federal government for swift funding to help address the influx.
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British Airways says it is canceling flights to Cairo for a week for unspecified security reasons.
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Britain mobilized a diplomatic broadside — but no immediate military action — against Iran on Saturday in retaliation for its seizure of the Stena Impero, a British-flagged tanker, in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu became the country’s longest-serving prime minister Saturday, as the clock ticked midnight on his 4,876th (non-consecutive) day in office.
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Florida survives on tourism, but a decade ago thousands of visitors made frequent trips to the state for cheap and easy prescription painkillers sold at unscrupulous walk-in clinics.
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With the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo now an international emergency, neighboring South Sudan and its war-weakened health system are a major concern.
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President Trump said he spoke with Sweden’s prime minister Saturday about jailed rapper ASAP Rocky and “offered to personally vouch for his bail.”
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Japan placed restrictions on exports to South Korea of materials essential to its semiconductor industry amid an impasse between the two governments over reparations dating from World War II. It’s part of a trend among some of the world’s most powerful nations.
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He was a Taliban commander in Afghanistan for 15 years. Then it hit him: ‘I was destroying my own country’
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It seems everybody has a close relative in the United States. The exodus is driven by economics.
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President Trump said he spoke with Sweden’s prime minister Saturday about jailed rapper ASAP Rocky and “offered to personally vouch for his bail.”
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