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and TIM STELLOH
Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times
Many of Representative Anthony D. Weiner’s constituents wondered why he could not recognize a pair of gray boxer briefs.
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By JAMES WARREN
The Illinois legislature has approved an extension of casino gambling, with the blessing of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but lawmakers should not believe that all will necessarily be well.
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By JOSEPH BERGER
Ozier MuhammadThe New York Times
Removing baskets at three intersections has supporters, but some merchants complain people are tossing soda cans on the sidewalk near them.
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By BEN SHPIGEL
Members of the commissioner’s office were said to have spoken with the Yankees and were satisfied that Yuri Sucart, who was implicated by Alex Rodriguez as his steroid provider, was not in violation of restrictions that were imposed two years ago.
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By ELLEN BARRY
Russia’s investigative committee announced that it had enough evidence to prove that Rustam Makhmudov, a fugitive arrested in Chechnya on Tuesday, was hired to kill the journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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After asking sacrifices from the citizens of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie was using a State Police helicopter for nonstate business.
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Some of the most important antibiotics ever developed should be used to treat sick humans, not to promote growth among farm animals.
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
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By KARI LYDERSEN
Paul Beaty for Chicago News Cooperative
The federal government will soon begin a new phase in its effort to clean the Grand Calumet River, a huge undertaking considering that the river is one of the nation’s most polluted.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad withdrew as the caretaker chief of Iran’s oil ministry and appointed an ally to the job, state television reported Thursday.
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The justices upheld a ban on corporate donations to candidates. Now Judge Cacheris can.
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By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
A Chilean judge has opened an investigation into the death of the country’s revered poet, Pablo Neruda, responding to allegations that he may have been poisoned just days after the 1973 coup, officials said Thursday.
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Federal officials are right to block the Republican drive against Planned Parenthood.
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By REUTERS
Three former Coast Guard pilots were charged Thursday over so-called death flights during the dictatorship era.
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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and CHARLIE SAVAGE
The efforts, from the Republican leadership and a liberal Democrat, highlight tensions over a president’s ability to wage war.
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By JIM DWYER
Millions were spent to convict and sentence Vincent Basciano to life in prison, his second such sentence.
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By ANN MARLOWE
Why is Afghanistan letting its cultural sites fall to pieces?
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By BETHANY LYTTLE
Jennifer May for The New York Times
A couple tears down a log cabin with little charm but lots of bats in favor of an airy home with porches overlooking woods and a stream.
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Congressional districts in Illinois have been remapped, and Republicans are not happy with all of the results.
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By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
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By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Matt Rainey for The New York Times
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and the Republican Party reimbursed the state more than $3,300 on Thursday for his use of a state police helicopter for personal travel.
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Sports
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nebraska hired the former major leaguer Darin Erstad to lead its baseball program into the Big Ten, and his immediate goals are high.
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By DAVID WALDSTEIN
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By AZAM AHMED
Winifred Jiau is accused of trafficking in nonpublic information, but was it material to companies? The prosecution and the defense laid out their cases.
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World
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By JACK HEALY and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times
Rights group see recent arrests in Baghdad as an attempt to nip dissent in the bud, while fatal explosions in Ramadi raise new concerns about security.
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By KARRON SKOG
Michael Appleton for The New York Times
Kenny Wong, a former Marine, owns PeaceCore training studio in Chelsea and leads exercise classes atop the High Line each week.
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By MATT RICHTEL and VERNE G. KOPYTOFF
Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press
The Gmail attacks Google disclosed used a rapidly proliferating form of e-mail fraud called spear phishing to steal hundreds of passwords and monitor accounts.
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By CHRISTY M. GLASS, STEVEN A. HAAS and ERIC N. REITHER
Shannon Freshwater
Being overweight affects economic outcomes, not just health.
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By GEOFF MACDONALD
Rafael Nadal says this semifinal matches "the best player of the time against the best player of history."
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The Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins come from regions with a passion for hockey.
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Jay Laprete/Reuters
Rory McIlroy had a birdie putt on his last eight holes and converted half of them on his way to a six-under-par 66 to join Chris Riley in the lead after the first round.
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By JOSEPH PLAMBECK
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
New York City’s first casino is being built at the Aqueduct race track, which straddles Ozone Park and South Ozone Park. It is not clear what its presence will mean for the neighborhood.
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By N. R. KLEINFIELD
The Bronx trial was one of the first to gauge the degree to which jurors care about a sweeping police scandal, which may involve as many as 300 officers.
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By EDWARD WONG
China Daily/Reuters
The dam’s planners failed to properly gauge its effects on lakes and other bodies of water downstream, especially during the drought conditions that are now ravaging the area, an official said.
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By NICK BILTON
A report from JPMorgan Chase notes that companies hoping to compete with the Apple iPad have gotten a lukewarm reception with consumers. As a result, production output has been reduced.
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By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press
Runoff from the Mississippi River that has agricultural chemicals in it threatens to create the largest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
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By LIAM STACK and SEBNEM ARSU
Adem Altan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Government forces shelled a string of towns even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned President Bashar al-Assad that his legitimacy had “nearly run out.”
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By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray make for a striking quartet.
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By ROB COX
Japanese companies should resist the temptation of buying foreign companies and focus on domestic consolidation instead.
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By BETTINA WASSENER
The New York Times
The sudden burst of activity on the Hong Kong stock market shows that recent worries over China's economic slowdown is fading as investors focus on Asia.
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By EDWARD WYATT
Senator Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat facing a tough fight for re-election, wants to offer an amendment that would delay reducing the debit-card fees.
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By DAVID BROOKS
Peace cannot be found without acknowledging and wrestling with a government’s moral character.
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By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Mike Blake/Reuters
Twelve penalties were called Wednesday, when the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks met for only the second time this season.
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By TIMOTHY EGAN
Can there really be no possible alternative to California's plan to close one-fourth of its state parks?
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By JOSHUA HAMMER
In this season’s travel books, the most resonant journeys are recorded by writers who hit the road to escape failed relationships, broken marriages and dead-end careers.
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By DOMINIQUE BROWNING
A bumper crop of new gardening books that make a good case for the simple joy of growing things.
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By SAM SIFTON
More than a dozen new cookbooks, full of fantasy, truth, good meals and bad.
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Seven more notable new gardening books.
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