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These searing photographs helped ban child labor in America — until now

May 1, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDTComment on this storyCommentA version of this story first published on Sept. 3, 2018, with the headline...

New Orleans Mayor Moves Past Failed Recall Effort, but Unease Persists

NEW ORLEANS — The murder rate in New Orleans had surged, becoming the nation’s highest. Car thefts were nearly constant, basic city services...

Trickling Tax Revenue Complicates Debt Limit Talks

WASHINGTON — A vote by House Republicans last week to lift the nation’s debt limit in exchange for deep spending cuts was the...

Independents Saw Urgency in Ousting Trump. Will They Feel the Same About Re-electing Biden?

Although Donald J. Trump has been out of office more than two years, receding as an all-consuming figure to many Americans, to Margot...

Tornado Damages Homes and Uproots Trees in Virginia Beach

A storm that passed over Virginia Beach on Sunday evening brought one confirmed tornado and caused damage to multiple homes close to the...

‘Zero Leads’: Dragnet Continues for Man Sought in Fatal Shooting of 5 in Texas

A Texas gunman who was being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of five people on Friday night after a neighbor asked...

Opinion | GM stops production of a popular car to make an expensive one

I read with interest the April 26 news article on GM’s decision to stop making its affordable electric Chevy Bolt, “GM to stop...

Opinion | Republicans should protect our economy and improve our lives

Comment on this storyCommentI am deeply concerned by the events reported in the April 27 front-page article “U.S. drifts toward cliff as debt...

Opinion | The last thing the world needs now is a baby boom

Had the world population been stable since 1970, rather than almost doubling, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration would now be far less. Source link...

Opinion | Earth Day cleanup lessons

Literature and philosophy love pithy phrases such as “I think, therefore I am” from Frenchman René Descartes. William Shakespeare in “The Tempest”: “What...

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