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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Future Infiniti Edition
Infiniti announces plans to build the QX30 and Q30 in England; a Chinese businessman sues Tesla Motors for trademark infringement.
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The Upshot
Voting Totals Reveal Crucial Boost From Blacks in Thad Cochran’s Victory
The precinct level returns in Hinds County bolster the theory that a surge in black, Democratic turnout was decisive in a Mississippi Senate runoff.
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U.S.
Campaign Atmosphere Amid Detroit Vote on Debt Plan
The deadline is Friday for public workers and retirees to cast ballots on a plan that depends in part on cutting their benefits.
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N.Y. / Region
Congress Unlikely to Step In as L.I.R.R. Strike Looms
Among transportation experts, attention has turned quickly to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who had publicly distanced himself from the standoff though it involved an agency he oversees.
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U.S.
Republicans Say Ex-I.R.S. Official May Have Circumvented Email
Lois Lerner, who is at the center of an I.R.S. scandal, may have used an instant-messaging system instead of email so that her communications could not be retrieved, lawmakers said.
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Opinion
Hobby Lobby’s Disturbing Sequel
In exempting a Christian college from a federal regulation, the Supreme Court’s male justices make another move that could hamper universal contraception coverage.
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U.S.
House Committee Takes Step Toward Renewing Highway Trust Fund
The House Ways and Means Committee released a bipartisan plan to provide federal financing for transportation projects through May 15, 2015, a step toward replenishing the Highway Trust Fund.
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Opinion
How Much Do Our Genes Influence Our Political Beliefs?
Recent research with twins suggests that cultural traditionalism has very deep roots.
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Opinion
In Arizona, Dreamers Can Drive
An appellate court ruled correctly that the state cannot deny driver’s licenses to young unauthorized immigrants who have permission to work.
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World
Obama Administration Defends Israeli Airstrikes but Cautions Against Ground War
In a telephone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would try to help Israel fulfill its goal of stopping Hamas’s rocket fire without a ground assault.
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N.Y. / Region
Nearly 3,500 Years Old, an Egyptian Monument Gets a Laser Cleaning
The Obelisk, which was first erected in Egypt and was then re-erected in Central Park in 1881, has been darkened by decades of sooty accumulation.
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Fashion & Style
Tangled Web of Memories Lingers After a Breakup
Scrubbing painful memories from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other sites can be a challenge.
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Sports
Senate Committee Presses N.C.A.A., Signaling Interest in Direction of College Sports
The hearing came at a time when the N.C.A.A. was facing increased scrutiny on a number of fronts.
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Opinion
Saving Water in California
The state needs much stronger conservation measures if it wants to battle its worst drought in decades and not to face severe water shortages.
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N.Y. / Region
As New York Landlords Push Buyouts, Renters Resist
Tenant groups cite illegal harassment and a growing threat to affordable housing, while landlords say buying out longtime tenants in low-rent apartments is lawful.
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N.Y. / Region
Study Finds Racial Disparity in Criminal Prosecutions
A study that examined 222,542 cases in Manhattan found that race was a significant factor in setting bail, negotiating plea deals and sentencing.
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World
North Korea Fires 2 More Ballistic Missiles
In test-firing two Scud-type missiles, North Korea was flexing its military muscle even as it was reaching out to Japan and South Korea.
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Sports
Sterling Shouts at Wife in Courtroom
Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, shouted, “Get away from me, you pig,” at Rochelle Sterling, his estranged wife, at a trial that will determine whether she legally removed him from a trust in order to sell the team.
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World
A Harsh Climate Calls for Banishment of the Needy
While the rest of Norway has generous welfare programs, in the frigid territory of Svalbard, unemployment and homelessness are illegal, which officials say reduces crime.
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Opinion
Religious Freedom in Peril
This is no Supreme Court case. This is about intolerance in some Muslim-majority countries.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Ciao Bella Edition
Fiat releases ads that poke fun at the cultural differences between Americans and Italians; Honda to recall hybrids sold in Japan.
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World
Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers
It is not yet clear how far the hackers penetrated the systems of the Office of Personnel Management, in which applicants for security clearances list their personal information.
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Opinion
Reform Conservatism and the Culture War
A response to E.J. Dionne and Andrew Sullivan on conservatives and cultural modernization.
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World
Polls Slow Japan’s Plan to Revise Constitution
Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, appears to have slowed efforts to expand the role of the military after polls showed a significant drop in his administration’s approval rating.
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U.S.
Reputation for Zeal Precedes Republican Leading New Benghazi Inquiry
Representative Trey Gowdy, who will lead the new House panel investigating the 2012 attack in Libya, has more nuanced relationships with Democrats than many conservative brethren.
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U.S.
Justice Dept. Declines to Investigate Rival Claims of C.I.A. and Senate Panel
Charges growing from a dispute over a classified report on the agency’s detention and interrogation practices during the George W. Bush administration.
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Automobiles
The Car That Witnessed the Spark of World War I
Contrary to many Internet sources, the 1910 Gräf & Stift touring car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 is not cursed.
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Business Day
Dish Asks F.C.C. to Block Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
A merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable and a joining of AT&T and DirecTV would both pose competitive threats, Dish said.
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N.Y. / Region
U.S. Naming a Monitor for the Police in Newark
The city’s new mayor, Ras J. Baraka, has been a critic of a department that has long been accused of brutality and bias.
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World
Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border
An increase in gang-related killings of children is a key factor driving the surge of migration of young Central Americans to the United States.
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World
Kurdish Government Calls On Maliki to Quit as Iraqi Premier
The political fissure in Iraq was widened, and the Iraqi government alerted a United Nations monitoring agency that Sunni militants had seized low-grade nuclear material.
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World
‘Low-Grade’ Nuclear Material Is Seized by Rebels in Iraq, U.N. Says
The International Atomic Energy Agency says the material, taken by Sunni insurgents, does not present a significant security threat.
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