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America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
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Switching the Clocks Twice a Year Isn’t Just Annoying. It’s Deadly.
An hour of the day will be unceremoniously snatched away on Sunday as we “spring forward” to daylight saving time.…
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World
José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up
Since October, organizers and Palestinian cooks working with the World Central Kitchen — the aid organization founded by the renowned…
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US
Nervous Democrats Press Biden on Gaza Ahead of State of the Union
Mainstream Democratic lawmakers want the president to speak out more forcefully for the policies that his administration has embraced, including…
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Finance
Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study Says
New U.N. research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries. But there…
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Finance
The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.
Bologna has become the first major Italian city to impose the limit on most streets, citing safety and livability. But…
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The World May Be Entering a Much Bloodier Era
War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict…
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News
How to Create the Best Kind of Cozy Space: a Room That’s Like a Hug
‘You can call it different things,’ said one designer, but it ‘all adds up to the same idea: You feel…
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World
The NATO Welcoming Sweden Is Larger, More Determined
The alliance’s expansion, with Finland last year and soon Sweden, is blowback from the invasion of Ukraine that Russia’s president…
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US
With Pandemic Money Gone, Child Care Is an Industry on the Brink
Five months after the expiration of federal funds, running a child care business is more precarious than ever and many…