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Young Tourist Dies in Central Park After the Horse Bolted: the Driver Had Stepped Off to Take Photos

An attraction that exists purely for the photo op took a young life over a single careless second. Why, in...

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Artist Who Mocked Putin Killed in Poland: Tusk Says It Bears the Marks of a Political Assassination

A man whose only weapon was a pencil and irony, gunned down outside his own home. What kind of regime...

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Trump Accidentally Admitted Why He Backed Down on Iran: Not Strategy, but Fear of the Markets

One of the world's most powerful leaders admits he made his call while watching the charts. Maybe the whole game...

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Lady Pamela Hicks, Queen Elizabeth's Confidante, Has Died: a Willow Coffin and a Plea for Silence

At 97, the last witness of an era is gone - the woman who first learned of Elizabeth and Philip's...

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The Collapse of Cuban Tourism: A 58 Percent Drop and Children Without Medicine

An island that lived off sunshine and nostalgia is watching its tourism fall apart under American pressure. When geopolitics is...

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San Andreas Under Its Greatest Strain in 1,000 Years: The Silence Before a Big Quake

The longer the silence lasts, the stronger the blow being prepared. The quiet before an earthquake is the same everywhere...

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Trump Floats New Sanctions on Russia: The Morals Haven't Changed, the Math Has

Cheap oil opened the door for him to hit Russian energy without lighting up prices at home. The sanctions are...

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The Country That Exports Oil to Half the World Has Started Rationing Fuel for Its Own Drivers

Tatneft is handing out 20 litres of petrol per vehicle across Russia. Rationing is a word governments don't say lightly...

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FBI Foils a Plot With an Explosive-Laden Drone for Trump's Birthday: Five Arrested

An elaborate multi-stage plan, 23 suspects on Signal and a sniper team. If a crowd of 23 people spent months...

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Norway's Princess Mette-Marit Has a New Lung: Illness Doesn't Ask About Titles

For months she appeared on oxygen, and now she's had surgery. The palace says the operation went well - but...

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