By JULIA WALLACE and LEN LENG
The flooding from a failed dam in Laos soon moved into neighboring Cambodia, upending life for impoverished farmers there with little hope of help.
Published: August 1, 2018 at 01:44AM
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By NATHANIEL RICH
We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
Published: August 1, 2018 at 12:47AM
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By REUTERS
The Trump administration plans to propose slapping a 25-percent tariff on $200 billion (152 billion pounds) of imported Chinese goods after initially setting them at 10 percent, in a bid to pressure Beijing into making trade concessions, a source …
Published: August 1, 2018 at 12:05AM
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By REUTERS
The Trump administration plans to propose slapping a 25-percent tariff on $200 billion (£152.53 billion) of imported Chinese goods after initially setting them at 10 percent, in a bid to pressure Beijing into making trade concessions, a sourc…
Published: July 31, 2018 at 09:17PM
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By JACEY FORTIN
The chain, Aloha Poke Co., which sent cease-and-desist letters to restaurants with similar names, has apologized after being accused of cultural appropriation.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 08:56PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Carolina’s governor is urging federal authorities not to reduce protections for endangered red wolves that can only be found in the state.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 02:23PM
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By CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN
Reading and writing are solitary activities; BookTube is changing that.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 02:05PM
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By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Lombardi’s unveils a lavish Chelsea location, a rooftop bar named after a well-connected interior designer and other restaurant news.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 01:59PM
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By PETE WELLS
Pino Luongo’s Coco Pazzo Trattoria brings a 1990s favorite back to SoHo; Yves in TriBeCa gets a promising new chef.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 12:54PM
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By KAREN WEINTRAUB
Researchers hadn’t visited the remote island in 30 years when there were 500,000 breeding pairs. Satellite images now indicate perhaps as few as 60,000 pairs.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 12:38PM
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By REUTERS
Norway has asked Israel to explain the legal grounds for detaining a Norwegian-flagged fishing boat seized while activists tried to sail with aid to the Gaza Strip, Norway’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 11:54AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A New Jersey shore restaurant is fighting back against a customer who posted a video of a worm crawling out of a piece of fish.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 10:41AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank then whisking it away, wrapping in a blanket and concealing in a baby stroller, police say.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 10:56PM
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By VINCE BEISER
China’s expansion, via artificial islands, of its military power in the Pacific is an intensifying flash point with the United States.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 05:45AM
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Global warming poses an urgent threat to Kolkata, a river delta city of 14 million. A Times reporter returns home and learns: The city’s natural defenses are being lost.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By JADA YUAN
Our columnist visits Megève, a gorgeous Alpine resort town, and Arles, fast becoming a cultural center.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By MATTHEW SEDACCA
Maxim Dondyuk is preserving evidence of people’s lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, before the nuclear explosion turned their communities into ghost towns.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 04:00AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The German Farmers’ Association is asking the government for 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in subsidies to help cover losses from this year’s harvest, affected by the continuing drought and heat across large stretches of Europe.
Published: July 31, 2018 at 03:44AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Huge sculptures of sea life are dotted about New Orleans’ aquarium and zoo , all of them made from plastic trash that washed ashore. There’s a great white shark made partly of bottle caps and beach toys and a jellyfish made mostly of cut-up water …
Published: July 31, 2018 at 01:41AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston’s Faneuil Hall has served as a home for civic rhetoric from the time colonists congregated to talk about freedom from the British. But the site known as the Cradle of Liberty is named after wealthy 18th century slave owner Peter Faneuil, mu…
Published: July 31, 2018 at 12:11AM
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By REUTERS
An army of firefighters in northern California gained ground on Monday against a wildfire that has killed six people and caused far more devastation over the past week than any of the scores of blazes raging across the tinder-dry American West thi…
Published: July 31, 2018 at 12:38AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can’t b…
Published: July 30, 2018 at 06:56PM
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By GEOFFREY GILLER
The achoques have nearly disappeared from Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico. A colony in the care of Dominican nuns offers hope the species can be saved.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 04:37PM
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By TRYGGVI ADALBJORNSSON and MELISSA GOMEZ
Toxic algal blooms are not unusual off the state’s coast, but the current episode is the longest in more than a decade.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 04:29PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fisherman Michael Lorello was very surprised when he dragged up a net off the coast of Rhode Island.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 03:26PM
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By DWIGHT GARNER
Donald Hall died last month at 89, and his recently published memoir, “A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety,” is “up there with the best things he did.”
Published: July 30, 2018 at 02:53PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has criticized the North African kingdom’s social development programs as overlapping, uncoordinated and missing target populations, in a speech from a northern town that has been the epicenter for social unrest.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 10:26AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The college application process can seem pretty mysterious to the uninitiated.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 11:17AM
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By REUTERS
California firefighters on Monday were gaining ground on a massive blaze that has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, while rescuers searched for seven people unaccounted for in the wildfire.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 03:30AM
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By REUTERS
Monsoon floods in Myanmar have killed at least 11 people and forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes, government officials said on Monday, as rescue workers ferried stranded residents to safety by boat.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 08:47AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The village of Whistler in Canada’s British Columbia has a long-standing reputation as a world-class ski destination. With two massive mountains, pristine powder and a wide variety of terrain, it’s no wonder.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 08:35AM
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By SHIVANI VORA
A high-end vacation doesn’t have to mean spending big dollars. Here are 10 cities where you can have upscale experiences without paying premium prices.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
McDonald’s is fighting to hold onto customers as the Big Mac turns 50, but it’s not messing with the makings of its most famous burger.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 03:06AM
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By REUTERS
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI called on Sunday on the government to do more to address the country’s social and economic problems, as the North African country struggles with social disparities.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 07:48PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A small plane has crashed in the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 04:15PM
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By Unknown Author
A long career in the publishing world was highlighted by her influential and enduring book “How to Get Happily Published.”
Published: July 29, 2018 at 02:55PM
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By ARIELLE DOLLINGER
As the lighthouse resident, Margaret A. Winski has watched her share of lightening storms and turned away gate jumpers at night. It’s a job that’s not for everyone.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 12:46PM
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By SAM SIFTON
Samin Nosrat wrote about chapli burgers in this week’s Eat column. Let them kick off days of good eating.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 10:30AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fishermen and environmentalists are at odds over a suite of changes to American fishing laws that was approved by the House of Representatives, and the proposal faces a new hurdle in the Senate.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 09:24AM
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By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
The actress-turned-candidate for governor is trying to convince skeptical New York Democrats to see beyond her political inexperience, like some did with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By Unknown Author
The couple met in middle school, and shared their first kiss during freshman year of high school, in 2004.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 12:10AM
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By Unknown Author
The couple were introduced by a mutual friend in 2011, and spent that same evening together at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 12:00AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Firefighters in South Florida rescued three baby sea turtles that had been trapped in a storm drain.
Published: July 28, 2018 at 10:01PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Top-seeded John Isner advanced to the BB&T Atlanta Open final for the eighth time, beating fourth-seeded Matthew Ebden of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1 on Saturday.
Published: July 28, 2018 at 07:06PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bruce Lietzke, the fun-loving, draw-hitting PGA Tour winner whose practice regime — or lack of one — spawned an often-told spoiled banana story, died Saturday of brain cancer. He was 67.
Published: July 28, 2018 at 06:33PM
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By REUTERS
Texan Bruce Lietzke, a prolific winner on the PGA Tour despite rarely practicing, died on Saturday at the age of 67, PGA Tour reported.
Published: July 28, 2018 at 02:45PM
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By HIROKO TABUCHI and TRYGGVI ADALBJORNSSON
Peter Wright helped negotiate a major Dow toxic cleanup. During that time, Dow was accused of submitting disputed data, misrepresenting scientific evidence and delaying the work.
Published: July 28, 2018 at 12:57PM
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