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Young Thug Lawyer Clashes With Judge in Chaotic Gang Case
Brian Steel, a lawyer for the Atlanta rapper, was ordered to serve 10 weekends in jail after a dispute with…
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Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for…
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David Boaz, a Leading Voice of Libertarianism, Dies at 70
At the Cato Institute, he argued against government interference in Americans’ lives, including policing their drug use, and supported legal…
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Welcomed Into Joan Didion’s Home, if Not Her Inner Circle
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait…
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She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is…
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Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.
Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new…
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What My Father Taught Me About Texas Barbecue, and Being a Dad
Gabriel H. Sanchez My mother often jokes that her children’s first taste of barbecue was in the womb. It’s the…
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Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store
Last year, Americans bought a half a billion packets of Shin Ramyun, the spicy, beefy Korean instant noodle. The bold…
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Trump Nephew to Publish Memoir in July
Fred C. Trump III’s “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” will hit shelves months…
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Get an Online Sex Account
Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s…