The improbable arrest of Ismael Zambada GarcÃa, who for decades had evaded the authorities, at a small airport outside El Paso appears to be a tale of subterfuge and betrayal.It sounded like a story ripped from a narco thriller: One of the biggest drug lords in Mexico was lured onto...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating whether Boar’s Head meat sliced at deli counters has played a role in an outbreak of listeriosis that has caused two deaths.Amid an outbreak of listeria that has killed two people in the United States and sickened around three dozen others, Boar’s Head...
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Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.After almost two decades of failed attempts to reopen, a landmark Upper West Side movie theater may be resurrected with a plan from a potential...
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With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.NASA officials on Friday said they expected congestion at the International Space Station in the coming month, following a couple...
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Kamala Harris’s dizzying rollout as a presidential candidate somehow pulled off the rare feat of looking organic and organized, fun but without cringe-inducing artifice. Vibes shifted, memes spread, coconuts fell.Things were bound to get hokey.Somehow, the Biden-turned-Harris campaign managed to make former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, once America’s...
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Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.Officials said on Thursday they feared as much as half the town of Jasper, Alberta, had been destroyed by wildfires so intense they generated their own weather.“It’s a sad day here because...
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The shooting took place just a half block from Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the New York City mayor, and was related to a child-custody dispute, according to the police.Two women were shot to death in a murder-suicide on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Friday morning, according...
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The agency charged with protecting presidents and foreign leaders has its largest ever budget, but employees say it is still unable to recruit and retain enough people to carry the load.Over the years, whenever the United States Secret Service’s lack of resources has been an issue, agents invoke a tongue-in-cheek...
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Ever since President Biden’s Sunday announcement that he would not seek re-election, clearly because of age, I keep thinking about Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s contemptuous reactions to one of the most difficult personal decisions a president has ever made, and what it says about their character.“The Democrats pick a...
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The arson attacks were carefully planned to cause maximum disruption on a train network so vast it is virtually impossible to fully secure.Before dawn on the day of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, arsonists on Friday sabotaged three critical high-speed rail lines, stranding thousands of travelers, heightening security...
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The Park fire in Northern California quickly became the state’s largest and most destructive wildfire this year, not far from where Paradise, Calif., was decimated in 2018.Ryan Kendall’s crew of firefighters arrived too late to save the house on Dear Abby Road.All that was left on Friday, amid the thick...
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When the Olympics arrive and I hear the familiar kettle drums of the Games’ fanfare music I’m always catapulted back to 1972, when the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut dazzled the world on the uneven parallel bars. As a kid, I watched transfixed. For the rest of the summer and to...
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