Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think

We don’t think of the premiums we already pay as taxes, but maybe we should.

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Should These Clothes Be Saved?

Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?

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‘Game of Thrones’ Fans Are Thrilled, Confused and Setting the Internet on Fire

Did you think you were going to get some work done? Not today!

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Metropolitan Diary: ‘I Decided to Keep Mum, and He Kept Sneaking Glances My Way’

A familiar face riding uptown, a private tour at the Museum of Natural History and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to Step Down in May

The No. 2 Justice Department official submitted his resignation letter to President Trump after overseeing the Mueller inquiry through to the end.

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Terror Attack Thwarted in Los Angeles, Authorities Say

The arrest comes just two days after a shooting at a synagogue in the San Diego area that left one woman dead and three others injured.

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In Month After ‘13 Reasons Why’ Debut on Netflix, Study Finds Teen Suicide Grew

The TV series is linked to a troubling jump in suicide rates among boys the month after its premier.

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Spotify Reaches 100 Million Subscribers, but Not Without Some Dissonance

A milestone for the music streaming giant coincides with a bumpy entry into India.

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Man Charged With Killing 5 in Annapolis Newsroom Uses Insanity Defense

Jarrod W. Ramos’s lawyers said in a court filing that a mental disorder either prevented him from appreciating the criminality of his conduct or from following the law.

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Beast from the east: Indian mountaineers reckon they've found Yeti footprints

Mountaineers from the Indian army on a expedition in Nepal have found mysterious large footprints in the snow that they think belong to the Yeti, or the abominable snowman, the military said on Tuesday.

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Suspected explosive device found, man arrested in New Zealand's Christchurch

New Zealand police said on Tuesday a man was arrested and bomb disposal officers found a package with a suspected explosive device at a vacant property in Christchurch, where 50 people were killed in attacks by a lone gunman on two mosques in March.

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Factbox: The main political parties in South Africa's election

South Africans voting for a new national parliament on May 8 will have 48 parties to choose from -- more than at any election since the end of white minority rule in 1994.

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Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports that Islamist militants were planning fresh attacks before the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.

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Australian right-wing senate candidate resigns after strip-club video emerges

The leader of Australia's right-wing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, said on Tuesday one of her senate candidates has resigned from the party after footage emerged showing him making derogatory comments and touching a dancer in a U.S. strip club.

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Britain's Labour hails progress in cross-party Brexit talks: The Times

Prime Minister Theresa May's government has made substantive moves in Brexit talks with the opposition Labour Party, The Times newspaper reported, citing unidentified Labour sources.

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Islamic State airs video purporting to be leader al-Baghdadi

Islamic State's media network on Monday published a threatening video message purporting to come from its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in what would be his first appearance since declaring the jihadists' now-defunct "caliphate" five years ago.

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Sri Lanka lifts ban on social media, security remains tight

The Sri Lankan government has lifted a ban on social media platforms intended to stop the spread of rumors after the Easter Sunday bombings, a source from the president's office said on Tuesday.

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China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on Tuesday for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, amid heightened tension between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive.

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Emperor Akihito prays ahead of Japan's first abdication in two centuries

Japan's Emperor Akihito prayed to a Shinto sun goddess on Tuesday, starting a day of ceremonies to mark the end of a three-decade reign in which he sought to ease painful memories of World War Two and bring the monarchy closer to people.

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Japanese thank departing emperor whose era marked shift from 1980s boom

Japanese expressed warmth and gratitude toward Emperor Akihito ahead of his abdication on Tuesday, but judged his three-decade Heisei era as a period of difficulty and transition for Japan after the economic boom and confidence of the 1980s.

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Fearful and fenced in: foreign children of IS face indefinite stay in Iraq

The children ran along the narrow enclosure, screaming, fighting and crying for the attention of the prison worker distributing sweets and balloons. Bug-bitten toddlers, too small to walk, clung to the sides of the chain link fence, staring blankly.

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Exclusive: Blackwater founder’s latest sales pitch - mercenaries for Venezuela

Erik Prince - the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump - has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicholas Maduro, four sources with knowledge of the effort told Reuters.

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