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KYIV, Ukraine —  More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry against President Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Volodymyr Zelensky gathered a small group of advisors on May 7 in the capital of Kyiv for…

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES ‘Something Very, Very Special’ in Syria President Trump has ordered an end to economic sanctions against Turkey that were imposed just over a week ago after that country’s invasion of Syria. With that, Trump declared his moves in the region to be a success —…

Click:Canva Pro費用與優惠對比 The stages are now set for the first two Democratic debates next week in Miami. NBC News, which is the media partner for the first debate, announced the candidates’ positions on stage for both debates on June 26 and June 27. The network previously said it was based on their polling numbers. For…

Thirty-six years ago, a yellow Mercedes truck loaded with twelve thousand pounds of explosives sped into the barracks of U.S. Marine peacekeepers in Beirut. It was 6:22 A.M. Lance Corporal Eddie DiFranco, on guard duty nearby, was the only one who saw the bomber. “He looked right at me, smiled,” DiFranco said later. “Soon as…

News photos of Ambassador William B. Taylor, Jr., leaving Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening showed him to be a white man with light-gray hair. He was wearing steel glasses and a dark suit. If you had to pick him out of a police lineup, about the only distinguishing feature that would help you are his…

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The South African writer, academic, and activist Fatima Meer was a busy woman. While still in high school, in the nineteen-forties, she established the Student Passive Resistance Committee, in response to apartheid laws restricting Indian land rights, and gave speeches at anti-apartheid rallies. She went on to be involved in the founding of several more…

Thinking of conversation starters for a first date can be nerve-racking, but, with Earth’s climate-change-induced apocalypse imminent, there are more options than ever before. What do you do for fun . . . when you’re not panicking about breaking-news notifications? What’s your go-to cocktail . . . to drink when it’s a hundred and forty-seven degrees out? Are you more introverted…

While browsing a table of new books at the Strand and spotting one that I wanted to buy, I experienced a common, modern-day itch: Do I purchase the book there and then from the Strand without pause, thus supporting bookstores, publishers, authors, and everything that I believe in? Or do I drive myself crazy by…

The Ivorian attacker struggled in north London but the former Roma ace is back in Serie A and already looking like the signing of the season Gervinho had never seen George Weah’s iconic, coast-to-coast goal for AC Milan before last weekend.  “I was nine at the time and we didn’t have a TV in my…