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Sports
N.C.A.A. Begins Its Turn in Antitrust Case Brought by Athletes
The director of women’s athletics at the University of Texas testified that paying athletes for the use of their likenesses or allowing them to share in revenue was “incongruous” with the university’s approach to amateur sports.
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The Upshot
Fed Expected to Reduce Growth Forecast but Cut Stimulus
The continuing wait for faster growth has reinforced the concern of some critics that the Fed is retreating too quickly from its bond-buying campaign.
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World
Marriage by Force Is Addressed in Britain
A new law in England and Wales is seen as part of the government’s effort to fight religious extremism.
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Theater
A Woman’s Place at a Pivotal Moment
Cherry Jones plays a character who runs a bed-and-breakfast that becomes an early shelter for battered women in the earnest, thoughtful drama “When We Were Young and Unafraid.”
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U.S.
Lawmakers Skeptical on Emails and I.R.S.
Republicans investigating the possible targeting of Tea Party groups ridiculed reports of computer crashes.
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U.S.
Social Security Agency Cuts Services as Demand Grows, Senate Report Says
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Opinion
Parasites, Killing Their Host
Big Food is unwittingly destroying its own market by pushing a diet that causes illness and death.
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U.S.
In Mississippi, Largess Helped a Senator, Until It Hurt Him
At issue for many Republican primary voters is the idea that what Thad Cochran does best is also what he does worst — spend federal dollars.
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U.S.
Chicago Is Freed From Oversight on Graft
A federal judge ended the oversight intended to prevent politically motivated hirings, firings and harassment of government employees.
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World
Sudan: Attack Ravages Hospital
A hospital run by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders was heavily damaged by the Sudanese Air Force in an attack on the village of Farandalla in the South Kordofan region, the group said Tuesday.
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U.S.
Doctor on TV Says He’ll Back Off on Weight Claims
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World
Female Activist in Haryana Works Within System for Change
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Separation of church and state should be imposed.
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Opinion
Legislating Ignorance About Guns
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U.S.
General to Lead Bergdahl Inquiry
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U.S.
Obama to Sign Protections for Contractors’ Gay Employees
President Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of
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Business Day
British Spy Agencies Assert Power to Intercept Web Traffic
A government document cites the right to intercept communications that go through services like Facebook, even if they are between people in Britain.
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World
Assessing Fukushima Damage Without Eyes on the Inside
A new technology will give engineers three-dimensional images of the stricken plant’s reactor cores and detect damaged fuel behind feet of steel and concrete.
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Health
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Theater
A Woman’s Place at a Pivotal Moment
Cherry Jones plays a character who runs a bed-and-breakfast that becomes an early shelter for battered women in the earnest, thoughtful drama “When We Were Young and Unafraid.”
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U.S.
Supreme Court Rules Against ‘Straw’ Purchases of Guns
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U.S.
Chicago Competes Against Itself for Site of Obama Presidential Library
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Arts
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U.S.
Obama Plans Protected Marine Area in Pacific Ocean
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U.S.
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Arts
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N.Y. / Region
New York Adoptees Fight for Access to Birth Certificates
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Arts
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Science
A Chain Reaction of Change Behind Dams
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U.S.
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Business Day
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U.S.
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U.S.
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Arts
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Business Day
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U.S.
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World
Japan Bans Possession of Child Pornography After Years of Pressure
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Automobiles
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Automobiles
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Sports
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U.S.
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Business Day
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N.Y. / Region
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World
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N.Y. / Region
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U.S.
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Business Day
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U.S.
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Business Day
Detroit Rolls Out New Model: A Hybrid Pension Plan
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U.S.
Arizona: Raids on Businesses Challenged
Immigrant-rights advocates filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging business raids by the Maricopa County sheriff’s office.
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World
Father's Day Plea to Educate China's 'Illegal' Children
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U.S.
Border Centers Struggle to Handle Onslaught of Young Migrants
The Border Patrol gave its first glimpse of two processing centers, in Arizona and Texas, handling the sudden stream of unaccompanied minors crossing illegally into the United States.
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N.Y. / Region
A Gilded Monument Is Mysteriously Shedding Its Brand-New Gold
The William Tecumseh Sherman statue in Central Park, which began peeling only a few months after it was regilded, will undergo further repair this fall.
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U.S.
Maine Court Fight Pits Farmers Against State and One Another
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Alex Hofford/European Pressphoto AgencyJimmy Lai, Next Media’s founder.
Pro-Democracy Media Company’s Websites Attacked
Next Media, which publishes Apple Daily, an
independent Hong Kong newspaper often critical of the Chinese
government, saw the largest attack ever against the company’s websites
on Wednesday, taking the group’s websites offline for hours.
Alex Hofford/European Pressphoto AgencyJimmy Lai, Next Media’s founder.
“The scale is so big that it overwhelmed the
DDoS protection service provider we hired to prevent an outage like
this,” said Tim Yiu, Next Media’s chief operating officer. In a DDoS, or
distributed denial-of-service, attack, hackers command swarms of
computers to generate an enormous flood of traffic to knock out the
target websites. Mr. Yiu said he received the first reports of the
attack at about 2 a.m., and access to Apple Daily’s Hong Kong website
was brought to a near halt for about 12 hours. He expected full web
services to resume by Thursday afternoon.
Other sites in the media group, including Apple Daily Taiwan, were affected for varying durations.
Next Media’s founder, Jimmy Lai, said in an
interview that “it’s not my business to speculate” who exactly was
behind the attack. But he added: “Whoever is behind it, it’s obvious
that he wants to muzzle the voice for the referendum. This kind of scale
of attack is currently out of our technical power to stop. We’re
searching for better defense.”
Like his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, Mr.
Lai has been a staunch supporter of the Occupy Central campaign, which
has been pushing for changes in how Hong Kong’s next leader will be
chosen. Since Sunday, Mr. Lai has participated in a daily 10-kilometer
walk across Hong Kong to promote an unofficial referendum Occupy Central
is holding from this Friday to June 29 to rally support for the
public’s right to nominate candidates for the election of Hong Kong’s
next chief executive, a method Beijing opposes.
Apple Daily issued a statement on its Taiwan
website condemning the attack, saying that “we have reason to strongly
suspect the attack was carried out by hackers from China, trying to
suppress Hong Kong people’s determination to fight for democracy and to
attack the pro-universal suffrage Next Media group.”
The attack on Next Media coincided with a
similar denial-of-service attack on Occupy Central’s online voting
platform, raising suspicions that opponents of Occupy Central are trying
to thwart its campaign.
“The Apple Daily has been very vocal in
encouraging people to vote on the referendum,” said Chan Yuen-man, a
journalism lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “I would
imagine whoever it is behind the attack, they are trying to target the
referendum. It’s hard to say it’s not an attack on the freedom of the
press.”
Since the former British colony of Hong Kong
returned to Chinese rule in 1997, its top officials have been selected
by a small group of delegates loyal to Beijing. The current chief
executive, Leung Chun-ying, has been called “689”
by his critics because, in the city of more than 7 million people, he
won office with just 689 votes from a committee of 1,200 members.
Ms. Chan said that many local news outlets
are controlled by owners with close business ties to China, many of them
members of China’s national legislature and its advisory body.
“Apple Daily is almost a lone voice now, a
media that’s quite blatantly pro-democracy in Hong Kong and critical of
the regime in Beijing and the Hong Kong government,” she said. “At this
moment in time, Hong Kong needs Apple Daily.”
Charles Mok, a Hong Kong legislator
representing the information and technology sector, said that such
attacks are becoming a common weapon in Hong Kong politics.
He noted that the newspaper and the voting
platform, run by the Public Opinion Program at the University of Hong
Kong, had been victims of multiple denial-of-service attacks in the
past. Recently, he said, the website of the Hong Kong Alliance in
Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, which runs a museum
focusing on the 1989 military suppression of the Tiananmen Square
protest movement, was blocked a few days before the June 4 anniversary
of the crackdown.
“The more important thing right now is that I
believe the government needs to pay serious attention to it and not
take a political side on it,” Mr. Mok said, adding that the Hong Kong
government should try to help mitigate such attacks, and work with
international partners to go after the attackers.
Recently, a Next Media executive said two major British banks had stopped advertising with Apple Daily at the behest of the Chinese government.
Next Media filed a report on the incident
with the Hong Kong police, which listed the case under “criminal
damage,” and placed it under investigation by the Commercial Crime
Bureau.
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The websites of Next Media, which publishes Apple Daily, an independent Hong Kong newspaper often critical of the Chinese government, were offline for hours in the largest Internet attack the company has experienced.
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