BEHIND THE BYLINE Oct. 14, 2019 The Reader Center has started an interview series, Behind the Byline, to introduce you to Times journalists. Is there a reporter, photographer or editor whom you would like to get to know? Tell us in the form below. Over his 20 years at The New York Times, Marc Lacey […]
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No matter what weather service, station or app you rely on for your forecasts, there’s a good chance it relies on data from the National Weather Service. And as John Oliver pointed out on “Last Week Tonight,” that information is now under threat. President Donald Trump nominated ex-AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers to an under-secretary role that
Image copyright Getty Images This year’s Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for their research on alleviating global poverty. Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer’s work focuses on different ways to reduce poverty. Their work had “dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice”, the Royal Swedish
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Step aside, goat yoga. The chic way to unwind now is fly fishing. That’s right. For some of the same reasons millennials recently flocked to bird-watching, this sport — long dominated by old white men — is gaining popularity with a younger set. For those who can afford the leisure time and some rudimentary equipment,
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The Yankees went to the bullpen early and kept a parade of relievers going to the mound — even CC Sabathia. But New York’s bullpen buckled in the 11th inning when Carlos Correa led off with a home run off J.A. Happ, the Yankees’ ninth pitcher, to give the Houston Astros a 3-2 win Sunday
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“In a way, it’s a twofold historical accident,” said Mr. Sandoval-Strausz, a professor at Penn State. Domestic demographic trends left cities in need of people (and businesses, and tax revenue), just as major new waves of immigrants began to enter the country after the immigration overhaul of 1965. In Chicago and Milwaukee, new Hispanic residents
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Brexit negotiators were meeting again Monday in an attempt to allow Britain to leave the European Union with a divorce deal at the end of the month. Ireland said a Brexit deal may be possible in the coming days, after technical teams from Britain and the EU worked through the weekend, although both sides said
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Promotional posters for the film have been taken down Vietnam has banned the new DreamWorks film Abominable from cinemas because of a scene involving a map illustrating China’s claims in the South China Sea. The map shows China’s unilaterally declared “nine-dash line”, which carves out a huge area in the
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Economics Prize for 2019 awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for studies on poverty. BREAKING NEWS:The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/SuJfPoRe2N
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The family destination that had changed the most since I was a child was the Saint Louis Zoo. The original exhibit, the “flight cage,” now houses 15 species of “cypress swamp” birds, that is, birds that inhabit Southern Illinois and southern Missouri, where the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers meet. One of my favorite earlier
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