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Long Stretches of the Mississippi River Have Run Dry. What’s Next?

Last month, record low water levels in the Mississippi River backed up nearly 3,000 barges — the equivalent of 210,000…

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This Country’s Top Judges Were All Foreigners. Now They’re Gone.

Until just a few weeks ago, the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, an independent country for more than four decades,…

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How to Help Your Neighbors

This article is part of Times Opinion’s 2022 Giving Guide. Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion’s…

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Happy Birthday, Omicron

On Nov. 26, 2021, the World Health Organization announced that a concerning new variant of the coronavirus, known as Omicron,…

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What Is a Wine Bar, Anyway?

New York wine bars are booming, with great new options proliferating and old standbys excelling. They seem to be popping…

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Your Friday Briefing

The darkened streets of Kyiv on Wednesday night, after a wave of Russian missile strikes that targeted energy facilities across…

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Your Friday Briefing: Covid Protests Grow in China

Videos showed workers protesting at Foxconn’s iPhone factory in central China.Credit...via AFP— Getty; via Reuters, via AFP— GettyCovid anger ...

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The parent of a tech giant known as ‘Russia’s Google’ wants to cut ties with the country.

The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, wants to cut ties with the country to shield its…

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Balloons, Crowds and Poultry-Shaped Hats: A Thanksgiving Rite Springs Eternal

“With a retinue of clowns, freaks, animals and floats, the bewhiskered man in red, in sight of thousands of persons,…

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Giving Thanks for a Beloved Sugar Maple

Standing under the old sugar maple, I want to sing a hymn. Kneel down and pray. Its tall branches tower…

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