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Thursday: Honoring a model citizen, preparing for more extreme cold, and goings-on around the city.
At least one suicide bomber made it inside the cultural center, detonating in the middle of a student discussion. The Taliban denied responsibility.
A suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighboring Shi'ite cultural center in the capital Kabul killed dozens on Thursday, officials and witnesses said, with many of the victims students attending a conference.
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Liverpool finally adds Virgil Van Dijk. All it took to push the deal over the line was a formal apology, six months of waiting and a world-record transfer fee.
The deepening troubles threaten to further destabilize a nation facing a dire recession and unbridled crime, as well as food and medicine shortages.
Rabwah, home to about 70,000 Ahmadis, has a veneer of calm, even affluence, that is at odds with the growing hatred against the sect elsewhere in the country.
New York is on pace for its lowest homicide total since the 1950s. If the trend holds just a few more days, this year’s total will have declined for 27 straight years, to levels that police officials have said are the lowest since the 1950s.
Produce growers represent a textbook example of what businesses describe as regulatory fatigue. President Trump is tapping into the discontent.
The move by Israel’s corporate version of a celebrity to lay off 14,000 workers was greeted with outrage and a nationwide strike.
Trump versus Hollywood. Echoes of the Confederacy. Taylor Swift and the alt-right. Here’s a not-so-nostalgic look back at some of the year’s fiercest fights.
Want to feel old? Everyone — well, every man — died.
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Eric Schneiderman’s office recently took its 100th legal or administrative action against “the biggest threat” to New Yorkers: the federal government.
South Korea examined the health of North Korean defectors amid fears that nuclear tests may have released radioactive fallout.
