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New Jersey’s governor signed a law Friday intended to protect the public’s right to reach the beach and other waterways around the state. Democrat Phil Murphy signed the bill Friday, which codifies in law the state’s public trust doctrine — meaning that waterways including the ocean, bays and rivers, are common property held in trust […]

ALGIERS — Much of the capital is boiling over with stifled anger at 20 years of police-state repression. But the Casbah, in the heart of Algiers, is strangely quiet, the ancient stone alleys empty in the glare of the sun. There is no need for demonstrations in the historic district to underscore the dead hand

In a non-descript building in North Miami, two dozen dancers in bouncing yellow skirts are high kicking the can-can, aerialists are spinning perilously high from silk cords and frantic seamstresses are hemming outfits in a 20,000 square-foot costume shop. They are all part of a company that puts on more live productions a year than

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — To outsiders, Kentucky’s largest city may be best known for its active bourbon distilleries, a baseball bat factory, famous fried chicken and a certain horse race run the first Saturday in May, but just ask someone there where to buy a book. “Carmichael’s,” said one longtime resident, “is a Louisville institution.” The

Anti-government protesters marched in France on Saturday for a 25th straight week, and several dozen demonstrated at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport to denounce privatization plans. The crowds at the yellow vest protests in Paris appeared thin as they got underway — in contrast to the thousands who joined the annual May Day march Wednesday,

Amenities Inside my room, a Nespresso Essenza Mini coffee maker sat atop a mini-fridge stocked with Voss water, Coca-Cola, Fever-Tree mixers and Labatt Blue beer —- the sole Canadian product. A tiny welcome box from Montreal’s Suite88 Chocolatier delighted me, until I noticed prices on a little placard (6 to 11 dollars). The hushed, subterranean

This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, South Africa’s predominantly female team of anti-poachers. Established in 2013, the 36 women patrol the Balule Nature Reserve, a 100,000-acre private wildlife reserve in northern South Africa, on the western boundary of Kruger National Park. The women, some of whom are as young

Carbon Beach is a beguiling and exclusive crescent of sand along the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, famous — infamous might be a better word — for the long and mostly losing battle conducted by its wealthy homeowners to keep the public off this stunning mile of coastline. It is also known as Billionaire’s Beach, a

Carbon Beach is a beguiling and exclusive crescent of sand along the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, famous — infamous might be a better word — for the long and mostly losing battle conducted by its wealthy homeowners to keep the public off this stunning mile of coastline. It is also known as Billionaire’s Beach, a

It’s been a year since a Hawaii volcano rained lava and gases on a rural swath of the Big Island in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim says residents are just beginning to come to terms with the devastation. More than 700 homes were destroyed