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World
Live Updates: Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners Are Freed as Trump Hails ‘Historic Dawn’ in Mideast

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Hamas freed the 20 hostages and Israel released some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners as part of a cease-fire. President Trump, in Israel, proclaimed an “end” to the war, but Israel and Hamas have not agreed on next steps in Gaza....

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World
To Inflict Pain on Russians, Ukraine’s Drones Zero In on Oil Refineries

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir V. Putin to change course....

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World
China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped out independent advocacy groups....

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World
Bolivia Pushes to Reclaim the Coca Leaf From the Stigma of Cocaine

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Long criminalized as the raw material for cocaine, coca is woven into Bolivian life. The government is lobbying the U.N. to ease international restrictions....

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World
Palestinians See Little to Celebrate Even Though the Bombs Have Stopped

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The cease-fire in Gaza has taken hold. Hostages and prisoners have been exchanged. But amid the utter devastation of two years of war, a sense of gloom pervades....

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World
The Return of Israel’s Living Hostages From Gaza Signals a Time to Heal

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

With the releases, Israelis basked in a joyous moment of unifying national redemption after months of agonizing, polarizing war....

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Lifestyle
They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay....

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Lifestyle
W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics....

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Lifestyle
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

Sun, 12 Oct 2025

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded....

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Lifestyle
Trump Cuts a Deal With AstraZeneca to Lower Drug Prices

Sat, 11 Oct 2025

The president and top health officials acknowledged using the leverage of tariff threats to forge an agreement. Other companies are still in negotiations with the White House....

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Lifestyle
Chinese Surgeons Perform First Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant

Thu, 09 Oct 2025

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later....

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Lifestyle
He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

Tue, 07 Oct 2025

Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people....

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Business
First Brands’ C.E.O. Steps Down, While Its Accounting Is Questioned

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The auto-part maker’s bankruptcy has rocked Wall Street and revealed trouble in the private credit markets....

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Business
Apple TV Subtracts the + in a Quiet Rebrand

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The service unveiled the change in the ninth paragraph of a news release announcing a streaming date for “F1: The Movie.”...

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Business
Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Mr. Lebda died on Sunday following an all-terrain vehicle accident on his family’s North Carolina farm, a company spokeswoman said....

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Business
Investors Fear the Return of the U.S.-China Trade War

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

The market is rebounding, but analysts see plenty of reason for concern about heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing....

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Business
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt Share Nobel in Economics

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said....

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Business
Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns....

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Fashion
Diane Keaton Was the Definition of a Style Icon

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Her legacy will include the ways she shaped fashion, rather than allowing fashion to shape her....

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Fashion
Diwali Ball: Priyanka Chopra and Nora Fatehi Celebrate Festival of Lights in New York

Sun, 12 Oct 2025

Celebrities, designers and local leaders filled the All That Glitters Diwali Ball in Manhattan to celebrate South Asians’ influence on the city....

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Fashion
Trump’s Aides and Officials Take Political Battles Online

Fri, 10 Oct 2025

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones....

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Fashion
Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

A drastic new procedure, which inflicts tiny fractures to the ribs, emerges at the forefront of body modification....

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Fashion
Why Are the Microphones on Social Media So Small?

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Once a quirky accessory, small external microphones have become ubiquitous in social media videos....

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Fashion
Hagfish Doesn’t Forget About ‘Forgotten’ Female Authors

Sat, 11 Oct 2025

Hagfish is a small press focused on out-of-print and obscure books by women. But it’s flexible on all of those things....

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