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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com How did we get here? Our columnist Carlos Lozada doesn’t really want to know — or, at least, is sick of hearing that question.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In 2025, the American and global economy, led by A.I. and capital markets, skated through a series of obstacles. But the next round is just beginning,” Mohamed El-Erian writes.

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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has hailed the troops fighting his war in Ukraine as sacred heroes. But confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal a pattern of brutality and coercion in the ranks that is hidden from the Russian public. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Thousands of New Yorkers packed the plaza outside City Hall and the streets of Lower Manhattan to see Mayor Zohran Mamdani take office on Thursday. See more photos here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Our modern conception of hope is flawed,” the research psychologist David DeSteno writes. “It practically invites hopelessness when the stakes are greatest.”

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Nearly 40 scientists are aboard the Araon, an icebreaker heading for Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers. Our journalists are traveling with them for a two-month expedition that could unearth crucial data about rising sea levels. Here’s a tour of the ship. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...

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“The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations. Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously.” Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after a public inauguration on Thursday that drew tens of thousands of people.

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In his inaugural address, Mayor Zohran Mamdani frequently invoked the cuisines of New York as metaphors for the city’s diversity, ambitions and promise.

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Jumaane Williams captivated the crowd when he was sworn in as New York City’s public advocate during Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony on Thursday. Williams broke into tears after taking the oath for a third term, addressing a portion of his remarks to his younger self.

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Movie ticket sales in North America totaled $8.9 billion for in 2025, up 2% from the previous year. But the box office remains far below prepandemic levels.

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor and its youngest in more than a century, was inaugurated in a public celebration outside City Hall on Thursday. See highlights: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... Read his inauguration speech: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

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Christopher Nolan goes (even more) epic. Lisa Kudrow makes a new season of “The Comeback.” Marcel Duchamp gets an overdue retrospective. Here’s what our culture critics are looking forward to in 2026.

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In a bid to reclaim deteriorating attention spans, a social media trend has young people sharing videos of themselves doing … absolutely nothing. Some last 15 minutes.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday appointed Michael Flynn as New York City’s next commissioner of the Department of Transportation. Flynn, a longtime transit official and consultant, is tasked with making city buses fast and free.

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The Grammy-winning singer Lucy Dacus performed “Bread & Roses,” whose political slogan began amid the women’s suffrage and labor movements, at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor of New York City on Thursday.

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Minnesota day-care providers and parents are warning of severe consequences if federal health officials carry out plans to withhold funds for a program that makes child care affordable for thousands of families.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on New Yorkers to celebrate the moment as their own inauguration on Thursday during opening remarks at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ceremonial swearing-in.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Zohran Mamdani “is part of a long tradition in New York City that has framed itself as seeking to reclaim the democratic community of the city from wealth, power and greed,” Kim Phillips-Fein writes.

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In the hours after the deadly overnight fire in a bar in a Swiss resort town, survivors desperately searched for news of the victims at the nearest major hospital.

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Toby Morton, a comedy writer who has worked on “South Park,” secured a certain web domain months ago, while President Trump was working to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Now, after Trump’s name was added on the facade, Morton’s parody website is drawing attention.

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Around 40 people were killed and 115 others were injured after a fire broke out early Thursday morning at a bar at a ski resort in Crans-Montana, an Alpine town in Switzerland, the police said. Officials said the fire started during a New Year’s celebration. Here’s what we know about the disaster.

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After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan had 90 minutes to get a beating heart inside a 6-month-old infant. It was her first heart transplant as the lead surgeon and her first ever in an infant. Here's a look at the steps in the milestone operation.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony is about to begin in New York City. Watch live and follow updates here.

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Jigsaw puzzles can be a relaxing and meditative way to spend an afternoon. These are a few of our testers' favorites, including one consisting almost exclusively of edge pieces. nyti.ms/4qtXPEm

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Zohran Mamdani announced a number of key appointments in the lead-up to his inauguration as New York City mayor on Thursday. The appointments include some of the biggest jobs in city government, as well as smaller but influential roles. Here are a few of them.

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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City shortly after midnight on Thursday in a private ceremony. A larger, more public inauguration ceremony will take place this afternoon. Here’s how to watch.

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Breaking News: The police in Switzerland have counted around 40 deaths, and about 115 injuries, in the fire at the Crans-Montana ski resort. The blaze broke out during a New Year’s celebration. Follow live updates.

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The famously prickly comedian Chevy Chase found a sympathetic adversary in Marina Zenovich, the director of a new CNN documentary about him that premieres on Thursday. Chase and Zenovich sat down for a lively discussion.

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"I make this at least twice a month. It is always tasty and you can substitute any greens and it is still wonderful." This complex and colorful chickpea stew is rich in vegetables, olive oil and Parmesan cheese.

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This year will be Ukraine’s fourth under Russia’s full-scale invasion. Few soldiers fighting in eastern Ukraine seem to think it will be the last. After a year of Russian advances, the goal for 2026 is simply to survive, said one officer. “It’s hard to make any plans,” he said.

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A deconsecrated Amsterdam church built roughly 150 years ago was engulfed in flames in the early hours of New Year’s Day, prompting widespread evacuations and causing extensive damage to the cultural monument.

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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Enzo Maresca has departed as head coach of Chelsea, the team announced, five months after winning the Club World Cup.

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Breaking News: Dozens were presumed dead after a fire at a ski resort bar in Switzerland during a New Year’s celebration, officials said.

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Several people were killed and others injured after an explosion and a fire at a bar in Switzerland during a New Year’s celebration early Thursday, the Swiss police said.

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Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who captured New Yorkers’ attention and ardor, was officially sworn in.

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Big crowds braved the cold on Wednesday for one of New York City’s most popular annual events: the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square.

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A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday found that the Trump administration illegally moved to end temporary deportation protections for tens of thousands of people from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.

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Zohran Mamdani will be officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball drops in Times Square.

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New Year’s Eve celebrations in northwestern Syria were violently disrupted late on Wednesday after security forces tried to arrest a man at a checkpoint spotted wearing an explosive belt who then detonated it, killing one officer and injuring two others, according to the Syrian Interior Ministry.

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Breaking News: The Trump administration must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s control, a federal appeals court ruled.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Even President Trump’s most egregious efforts to stifle dissent “seem to quickly fade from public consciousness, and in that way, they’re clearly meant to overwhelm us and make us think twice about exercising our rights,” Nora Benavidez writes.

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Wearing colorful hats and costumes for a road race in São Paulo, dancing in a field in Bali, dipping into a frigid lake in Croatia and — of course — setting off lots and lots of fireworks, people around the world came together on Wednesday to celebrate the end of 2025 and bring in a new year.

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Our staff sifted through and tested dozens of this year’s most promising cookbooks to find the titles that not only offer top-notch recipes and stunning photography, but also deliver insight and guidance that can change how you cook every day.

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A cargo ship severed an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland on Wednesday in what the Finnish police said they suspected was an act of sabotage that led them to seize the vessel.

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Breaking News: In a major shift, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he would no longer seek to end mayoral control of New York City schools.

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Breaking News: President Trump abandoned, for now, his efforts to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France showed support for restricting children’s access to social media, joining a list of world leaders who have made similar pledges to counter the scourge of online abuse in recent months.

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We published thousands of puzzles in 2025. The editors, writers and community managers who make Games run got together to share the ones that stuck with us. See all 25 of our editors’ picks here: nyti.ms/4sf46pv Every puzzle we featured is free for a limited time.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com With Netflix looking to acquire HBO, TV is in danger of returning “to its default settings — low on risk, low on cost and concerned only with producing programming that brings in the biggest possible audience,” Alan Sepinwall writes.

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To anyone who happened upon a funeral in Washington Square Park in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon and wondered who was being honored, it was for the MetroCard, which is being retired on Wednesday. trib.al/1kiOgYB

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Across the U.S., new laws will take effect at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1 in virtually every state. From cellphone bans to higher minimum wages, here are some of the important policy changes set to go into effect in 2026.

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Breaking News: Venezuela has detained several Americans in the months since the Trump administration began a pressure campaign against the nation’s government.

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In theory, wearing a pair of glasses that can give you directions, play a podcast, let you respond to notifications, and take photos — all while your phone is tucked in a pocket — sounds like a dream. Reality was a whole different story. nyti.ms/4q1c18n

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have broad authority to search the electronic devices of travelers entering and leaving the country. Here are tips for keeping your data safe.

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Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim New York City mayor, will also be the first mayor to use the Quran at his swearing in. For his ceremony at City Hall, he will use his grandfather’s and at least one other family Quran.

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What does 2026 have in store for us? Dumb phones as status symbols, a war on A.I. slop and bets on “The Real Housewives” should make the coming year interesting. Here's what else our reporters predict.

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Our film critics ranked their 10 favorites of the year. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...

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Brigitte Bardot, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. But her retired years were punctuated by a series of hair-raising racist and Islamophobic declarations targeting Muslims and immigrants, along with gay people, feminists and more.

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The staff of The New York Times Book Review chose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Take a look. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Hottest newcomer: Zohran Mamdani. Biggest loser: Elise Stefanik. Most inappropriate gift: The Boeing 747 from Qatar. Michelle Cottle wraps up 2025 with her annual politics yearbook.

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A video posted in the past week, claiming to expose fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota, has been viewed by millions of people. The scale of the reaction to the video highlights the way the White House seeds narratives, then rewards sympathetic creators who deliver viral content.

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Two New York Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the MetroCard ends on December 31.

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Also known as el pastel imposible (the impossible cake), chocoflan is a baking wonder, its layers of chocolate cake batter and dulce de leche flan swapping places in the oven.

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As people in the U.S. prepared to ring in the new year, temperatures plunged as much as 20 degrees below normal across much of the country. nyti.ms/4jgj9uI

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What’s your most-played game? Do you tend to solve in the morning, afternoon or evening? Your Year in Games will tell all, with personalized game stats from Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, and Strands. Check out your own Year in Games: nyti.ms/4syF4Sm

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Two brutal killings by guards, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? The New York Times identified more cases of inmates who died after beatings in the past three years.

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Some of the best journalism from our reporters at The Upshot starts with a reporter squinting at a table, or a list, or a rough chart, and trying to divine meaning from it. Here are some memorable examples of when that process paid off this year.

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A reader asked: “I’ll have a cigarette at parties, especially when other people are partaking. Is it really that bad for me?”

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Isiah Whitlock Jr., a character actor best known for his scene-stealing role as a smooth-talking, corrupt politician in the widely acclaimed HBO show “The Wire,” died on Tuesday. He was 71.

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Officials were still working on Tuesday to recover and identify the bodies of three hikers who were confirmed dead near a Southern California trail known for its sharp drop-offs and physically demanding terrain, after high winds complicated efforts.

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Breaking News: Renee Hardman, a Democrat, won a special election for the Iowa Senate, blocking Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority.

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Making sure your furry friend’s nails and coat are groomed properly does not come cheap. As pet care costs continue to climb, we want to know how you’re dealing with rising grooming costs. Let us know in this form.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We have ideas. We have kids. We exist,” writes the Palestinian artist Raghda Zaiton on continuing to make art during the war in Gaza.

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We cooked over 200 meals from 11 different meal kits to find the best services that can make dinnertime a bit easier.

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This three-ingredient vegan soup isn’t a trick: It’s as velvety and rich as its creamy, dairy-full counterparts.

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A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary deportation protections for migrants from South Sudan, a move to halt any deportations that came a week before the migrants’ status was set to expire.

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Celebrate making it to the end of 2025 with some bubbly beverages. nyti.ms/44PeGJL

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.

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Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. There are three new puzzles each day — can you beat them all? nyti.ms/4pZqO3h

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​​Antarctica’s melting ice is raising global sea levels, worsening damage from floods and storm surges. Our reporter explains why the Thwaites Glacier is crucial for scientists who are trying to pin down how much extra water to expect, and how soon. Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

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Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr

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Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz

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Our reporters who write about relationships spend their days talking to sex researchers, couples counselors and psychotherapists about how to maintain and strengthen your connections. Here is some of the most inspiring advice we’ve heard this year.

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After storms Christmas week, forecasters said Southern California should get more rain beginning on New Year’s Eve, bringing potential mudslides, downed trees and localized flooding.

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Cecilia Giménez, an amateur painter in Spain whose attempt to restore a church fresco of Jesus in 2012 ricocheted across social media, has died at 94. Giménez turned her town into a tourism hot spot.

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From @theathletic.com: New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs faces felony charges of strangulation or suffocation and assault pertaining to an incident that allegedly occurred on Dec. 2.

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Since taking over as chief executive of NPR last year, Katherine Maher has confronted one crisis after another. The organization has managed to hold on to its influence, even as Congress stripped more than $500 million in annual funding from public media. trib.al/0ljCOCa

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A.I. has made it easy to put words in people’s mouths. A fake video of Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain announcing a nationwide curfew attracted more than 430,000 views and inspired similar posts on X and Facebook.

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Adult birthdays can be an exercise in expectation management. But after a pandemic birthday led to an epiphany with a box of Betty Crocker cake mix, the writer and baker Tanya Bush found a new ritual. nyti.ms/48YLKRU

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump "has mimicked the strategies of such greats as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt," Thomas B. Edsall writes. "In doing so, he will, unlike them, leave the nation worse off than it was when he took office."

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Bacterial vaginosis, or BV, is the most common vaginal infection worldwide. Gynecologists long viewed it as solely a women’s issue until a new study. Here's what researchers found.

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If you wake up in the morning experiencing more back pain than you went to bed with, you may need to switch up your mattress. Experts we spoke with actually recommended a medium-firm mattress, which should provide support while also cushioning your joints.

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These party nibbles are perfect for a festive New Year's Eve gathering. nyti.ms/4pdc7s5

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France has granted citizenship to George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, according to government decrees issued over the weekend. The Hollywood star has praised French culture and said that the country's privacy laws enabled him and his family to pursue a quieter existence.

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