By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times has published an exceptionally long article about the collapse of the Middle East, the chaos of what used to be functioning governments, the misery and streams of refugees that it has produced. It’s good journalism, telling its story through the eyes of individuals interviewed over the course […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USARIO DE JANEIRO — They didn’t want to be here. They didn’t want to play this match. Why did they have to play this match? When Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross stepped on to the sand at Rio’s beach volleyball arena on Copacabana Beach a couple of hours before midnight Wednesday, they wanted to
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAClose The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few children”; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose Lake; and, two months later, as many as 257 murdered at Grouse Creek, scores of them women and children.
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USARIO DE JANEIRO — Moments after she had left the track after leading the first-ever 1-2-3 sweep by athletes from one country in the 100-meter hurdles, Brianna Rollins clutched a precious golden object in her right hand. Her prize? Not a medal — an apple. “I’m so hungry,” she said, the only downside of waiting
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles didn’t quite feel like she truly belonged to the Famous U.S. Olympian Club. She admitted to feeling a “little nervous” around the likes of swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky during a recent photo shoot. She was underestimating herself. Another gold-medal performance by the transcendent talent suggested the club
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARyan Lochte has come clean about the confusion surrounding the robbery he and three other American swimmers endured at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte told USA Today that they didn’t tell the U.S. Olympic Committee about the incident that happened early Sunday “because we were afraid we’d get in trouble.” When reports
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge ordered local police to seize the passports of U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen on Wednesday to bar them from leaving the country after the athletes said they were part of a group robbed at gunpoint earlier this week. In a statement, Judge Keyla Blanc de Cnop
Hillary Clinton has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in both Colorado and Virginia, while Mr. Trump remains within striking distance in Iowa, according to polling of the three battleground states released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University. In head-to-head match-ups, Mrs. Clinton led Mr. Trump by 10 points in Colorado, 49 percent to 39 percent, and
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USADoes more social damage result from drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs? Could trying marijuana actually lead to stronger drug use? Utilizing data from four decades of U.S. government drug use surveys, an extensive and easy-to-use collection of charts has just been created to answer these questions, and more. The Brian C. Bennett Drug Charts
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASeeking to paint rival Donald Trump as an ally of Wall Street and Democrats as champions for the middle class, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday touted an economic plan that relies heavily on tax increases for major U.S. companies, Wall Street firms and rich Americans. At a rally in Cleveland, Mrs. Clinton made no bones about
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USACHICAGO — Paul O’Neal, the black teen fatally shot last month by Chicago police in a controversial incident captured in part on video, sustained a single gunshot wound to the right side of his back, the Cook County medical examiner’s office determined in an autopsy made public Wednesday. Toxicological testing found no drugs in O’Neal’s
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USAProPublica’s reporting on the water crisis in the American West has highlighted any number of confounding contradictions worsening the problem: Farmers are encouraged to waste water so as to protect their legal rights to its dwindling supply in the years ahead; Las Vegas sought to impose restrictions on water use while placing no checks on
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The World We Share, USAWASHINGTON — Documents from an ongoing congressional ethics investigation into U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows show that Meadows paid former chief of staff Kenny West for months even after West had been barred from the congressman’s Washington office over complaints from female staff members. The ethics review of Meadows, a Republican from western North Carolina, revolves
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USAAfter losing a challenge to restrictions on carrying concealed firearms, gun owners in California filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a state law that prevents most people from carrying guns openly in public. The lawsuit contends that the ban on openly carrying a gun in public must be struck down now that a federal
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