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U.S.
With New Bill, Abortion Limits Spread in South
Republican legislatures are passing new rules that require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, a provision that could shut down many of the region’s abortion clinics.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Pony Pricing Edition
Ford announces pricing for the 2015 Mustang; Dodge introduces a 600-plus-horsepower Challenger SRT variant.
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Opinion
The Senate Foolishly Rushes In
Before the Senate votes on the judicial nomination of David Barron, the public should be able to see the drone memos that justified the killing of an American citizen.
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Technology
Never Forgetting a Face
Joseph Atick, a pioneer of facial-recognition systems, is now cautioning against their unfettered use. Never, he says, should they undermine anyone’s choice to remain anonymous.
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Your Money
It’s a Must-Have Book, Even if You Never Read It
People may buy Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” just to say they have a copy. How many will read and understand all 698 pages?
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World
Kerry Calls on Venezuela to Talk With Opposition
In Mexico, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Venezuela on Wednesday that the United States Congress was moving to legislate economic sanctions.
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World
Note to Olympic Sailors: Don’t Fall in Rio’s Water
Guanabara Bay, the venue for the 2016 sailing and windsurfing events, is so foul that a biologist called it “a latrine” and a sailor said he had encountered bodies.
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Health
Drowning Risk Varies by Age and Race
Almost 21,000 people under 30 died from drowning in the 12 years from 1999 to 2010, and there were substantial variations in death rate depending on age, race and ethnicity.
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Magazine
A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD
Bessel van der Kolk wants to change the way we heal a traumatized mind — by starting with the body.
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U.S.
Delays Allowed on Healthier Lunches
The Agriculture Department will allow some schools to delay adding more whole-grain foods to meals this year, responding to criticism from school officials and Congress that the standards were too difficult to meet.
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World
Abbas Meets in London With Israeli Negotiator
The president of the Palestinian Authority spoke with Israel’s justice minister in the first known face-to-face talks between the two sides since peace negotiations collapsed last month.
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Opinion
Searching for Fairness on the Internet
The F.C.C.’s new plan leans toward creating a two-tiered system that could discriminate against smaller companies and restrict consumer choice.
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World
South Korea to Disband Coast Guard, Leader Says
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea vowed to dismantle her country’s coast guard because of its failures in responding to the recent ferry disaster.
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U.S.
California Wildfires Spread Across Hills, Leveling Homes
Residents and officials are just beginning to assess the damage and determine the causes, even as fire crews continued struggling to get five of the blazes under control.
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World
U.S. Initiative on Hunger Aids Millions, Report Finds
The Feed the Future program operates in 19 countries and has had the greatest success in Senegal, Bangladesh and Honduras, the report found.
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Opinion
South Sudan in Peril
The international community has to press for an end to the senseless, ethnically driven war that has turned the country into a killing field.
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World
U.N. Seeking More Ways to Distribute Aid in Syria
The United Nations is under pressure to ratchet up aid to nongovernmental organizations that can operate in the vast swaths of Syria under opposition control.
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