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So far this year, New York City has issued permits for 74 projects that would convert old office buildings into homes to address its housing shortage, a New York Times analysis of city data shows. The pace of these office-to-residential conversions has quickened sharply.

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Some survivors of the deadly flood and landslide that struck Nepal last week have no access to food, and there are about 10,000 households affected by the disaster, according to the UN. Officials and volunteers are testing how drones can help.

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News Analysis: Five years ago, the U.S. left Afghanistan. Today, America’s longest war offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless conflict in Iran.

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NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday. It will chart galaxies and black holes with a new level of precision, allowing astronomers to study the dark universe and search for new worlds. nyti.ms/4qM0ieZ

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People have recently been recorded sneaking in and out of maintenance holes in New York City’s vast sewer system. Their motives have not yet been determined, the police said, but concerned officials warn of danger underground.

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A climber this month was stranded for hours on Laurel Mountain in California before rescuers reached him. He recalled thinking: “One wrong move now, and that’s it. I die.”

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After tasting 26 maple syrups, Wirecutter testers were happy to discover that nearly every sample in our lineup was pretty good. That said, we found a few particularly special bottles that we think are worth trying: nyti.ms/4caXmSZ

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One woman was killed and five more people were wounded in a shooting at a rave in Switzerland on Sunday. The police were looking for one or more attackers, but it was still unclear in the afternoon how how many perpetrators and guns were involved.

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, this week.

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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. Even though the game is timed, there’s no way to lose. nyti.ms/3UM77B7

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Strands is a word search with a unique twist. Can you uncover the theme? Play here: nyti.ms/4xwdIOT

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Connections is a daily game about finding common threads between words. Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play now. nyti.ms/3Uqy4dC

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In summer and fall, the stretch of ocean from the northern tip of the Outer Cape down past Chatham, on the Cape’s elbow, is now the best place to see great white sharks swimming close to shore. Though the sharks may deter some beachgoers, one thing is certain: They’re luring others. nyti.ms/46rCPGu

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Google Maps has updated to label Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S., following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. trib.al/5axpigr

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At least seven people died when a passenger ferry carrying 267 people capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus on Sunday, prompting a search and rescue effort for the remaining passengers.

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If you’re a parent transitioning your children from summertime fun to the classroom, you’ve come to the right place. On the latest episode of The Wirecutter Show, we asked journalists what crafty shortcuts they’re using to make school mornings run a little smoother. nyti.ms/4wSyln7

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There are signs that Spaniards are eating earlier in the evening. Experts say it could make for a healthier country, but not everyone is ready to part with the late-night dinner custom.

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Voting by mail would become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of millions of Americans if the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to implement a restrictive rule governing mail voting that President Trump has demanded. Here’s what to know.

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At 7:26 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blasted off from the Florida coastline and sailed toward the stars. Astronomers will use data collected by the $4.3 billion telescope to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com In a way, Rhonda Garelick writes in a guest essay, Dolly Parton was a drag artist. Her hair, heels and hourglass figure were “exaggerated versions of the standard feminine proportions and embellishments that women are encouraged to strive for.”

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Icelanders voted against resuming negotiations on joining the EU, the country’s national broadcaster reported on Sunday, after a divisive national debate.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Like termites gnawing on a house’s framing, rising air temperatures seem to be chewing away at the ice and permafrost holding slopes together at high elevations,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay about the glacier collapse in Nepal.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com With the departure of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from California, Robin Givhan writes in a guest essay, “can America please shake off its obsession with royalty?”

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The president “has ripped an enormously damaging Trump-size hole in the constitutional order, and a future president with autocratic designs will have every tool he needs to push the envelope even further,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

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Two men stole a diamond necklace once owned by an Egyptian queen from a museum in Vienna on Thursday, the Austrian police said, adding that they were searching for the thieves.

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Less than a decade after becoming the first woman to translate “The Odyssey” into English, Emily Wilson is retranslating the ancient Greek poem from scratch.

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Spurred by influencers and America’s protein obsession, cottage cheese sales have increased nearly 40% over the past few years. We tasted almost 30 varieties to find five that are creamy, tangy, and utterly craveable. nyti.ms/4c2yDAo

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Dozens of Israeli settlers broke into a Palestinian man’s house in the West Bank on Saturday, trapping and attacking people inside, the Israeli military and Palestinian witnesses said. It was the latest incident amid rising settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territory.

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Rescue teams were struggling on Saturday to extricate workers trapped in hydropower tunnels after this week’s deadly floods in Nepal, even as the Nepal Army said its thermal drones were not detecting any signs of life.

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