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West Bank Town Becomes ‘Big Prison’ as Israel Fences It In

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US Electric Vehicle Tax Breaks Will Expire on Sept. 30

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Eyeing Arctic Dominance, Trump Bill Earmarks $8.6 Billion for US Coast Guard Icebreakers

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Trump’s Sweeping Tax-Cut and Spending Bill Wins Congressional Approval

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US Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Transgender School Sports Bans

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Stolen Away: Brooklyn Pitcher Recalls '51 Sign-Stealing Scam

NEW YORK — Stealing signals. Banging on a trash can. Beating the Dodgers in October. Sounds very familiar to Carl Erskine. "If they're going to go back to 2017 with penalties for the Astros," he said Wednesday, "then I want them to go all the way back to 1951 to...

Anti-Semitism Grows in Jewish Communities in NYC Suburbs

MONSEY, N.Y. — For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust. The...

NYC Orders Mandatory Vaccines for Some Amid Measles Outbreak

NEW YORK — New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak and ordered mandatory vaccinations in one neighborhood for people who may have been exposed to the virus. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual order amid what he said was a measles "crisis" in...

What the Dodgers’ and Giants’ 1958 Move West Meant for America

Few phrases are as evocative of a mythical, imagined urban past as “Brooklyn Dodgers.” Those two words, particularly in the borough that is now a punch line for hipster jokes, bring to mind a different America, one where the U.S. saw itself as more of a political innocent just discovering...

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