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Opinion
Video: Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?
In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.
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Opinion
High Plains Moochers
At the heart of the Cliven Bundy standoff was a perversion of the concept of freedom.
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Sports
Video: N.B.A. Bars Clippers Owner for Life
The league commissioner, Adam Silver, called remarks by the Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, “deeply offensive and harmful.”
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Business Day
Two Giant Banks, Seen as Immune, Become Targets
Prosecutors, in seeking guilty pleas from Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas, are looking to address public outrage and alter the belief that Wall Street institutions are “too big to jail.”
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U.S.
Justices Back Rule Limiting Coal Pollution
The Supreme Court upheld the E.P.A.’s authority to regulate coal-plant pollution that drifts from more than two dozen Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast.
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Health
F.D.A. Will Propose New Regulations for E-Cigarettes
The proposed rules would extend the federal government’s regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, cigars and tobacco pipes.
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Science
Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
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World
F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad
While it is unclear whether the F.B.I. ordered the attacks by Hector Xavier Monsegur, the agency may have used hackers to gather intelligence even as investigators were trying to dismantle hacking groups.
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U.S.
‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby
A handgun that can identify its user so no one else can fire it has met with the same uproar that has stopped many seeking tougher weapons laws.
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Sports
At Northwestern, a Blitz to Defeat an Effort to Unionize
As soon as a National Labor Relations Board official ruled that scholarship football players had the right to unionize, the university began a wide-ranging campaign to defeat a vote.
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World
Ending Asia Trip, Obama Defends His Foreign Policy
President Obama said his policies were based on a workmanlike attention to American priorities that might lack the high drama of a wartime presidency but also avoids ruinous mistakes.
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U.S.
Storms Carve Deadly Path Through South and Midwest
For Vilonia, Ark., the tornado that touched down on Sunday was a nightmare revisited: Nearly three years ago to the day, another twister swept through the city.
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U.S.
White House to Press Colleges to Do More to Combat Rape
Reacting to a series of highly publicized rapes, the White House is increasing the pressure on universities to more aggressively combat sexual assaults on campus.
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World
U.S. Expands Sanctions, Adding Holdings of Russians in Putin’s Financial Circle
The Obama administration ordered travel bans and asset freezes for seven Russian officials, including two said to be in Mr. Putin’s inner circle, and froze assets for 17 companies.
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U.S.
Rancher’s Views on Race Send Supporters Fleeing
Senator Rand Paul joined a line of Republican and Democratic leaders in denouncing Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher at the center of a standoff with the federal government over land use.
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The Upshot
A Map of Baseball Nation
Facebook data reveals the most popular team in every ZIP code.There are more major league teams than these.
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The Upshot
A Link Between Fidgety Boys and a Sputtering Economy
A gender difference in behavioral skills, seen as early as kindergarten, is hurting boys’ academic prospects and their earning potential.
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World
Uproar in Egypt After Judge Sentences More Than 680 to Death
An Egyptian judge sentenced the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and hundreds of others on charges of inciting or committing acts of violence.
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U.S.
One Execution Botched, Oklahoma Delays the Next
An inmate’s execution was stayed after another condemned man, Clayton D. Lockett, died in what witnesses said was an agonizing scene: He writhed and said, “Oh, man,” after being declared unconscious.
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