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With the Capital One-Discover Deal, Credit Holds All the Cards
A fight has commenced over Capital One’s effort to acquire Discover, a deal that would birth an enormous credit-card company…
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How Education and Experience Can Help Prisoners Achieve Parole
More from our inbox: Close Call on Jan. 6: Perhaps the Secret Service Helped Save DemocracyA Faulty Analogy on the…
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America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
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Switching the Clocks Twice a Year Isn’t Just Annoying. It’s Deadly.
An hour of the day will be unceremoniously snatched away on Sunday as we “spring forward” to daylight saving time.…
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World
José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up
Since October, organizers and Palestinian cooks working with the World Central Kitchen — the aid organization founded by the renowned…
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World
Nervous Democrats Press Biden on Gaza Ahead of State of the Union
Mainstream Democratic lawmakers want the president to speak out more forcefully for the policies that his administration has embraced, including…
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Business
Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study Says
New U.N. research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries. But there…
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Business
The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.
Bologna has become the first major Italian city to impose the limit on most streets, citing safety and livability. But…
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The World May Be Entering a Much Bloodier Era
War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict…
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Real Estate
How to Create the Best Kind of Cozy Space: a Room That’s Like a Hug
‘You can call it different things,’ said one designer, but it ‘all adds up to the same idea: You feel…