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Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard Harvard sued and asked for a restraining order after the Trump administration had said it would block international students from ...

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An adventurer enlists his disapproving sister (Natalie Portman) in this Guy Ritchie movie with a hint of Indiana Jones. By Glenn Kenny A newly engaged Jew and gentile plan to introduce their ...

A one-man show, a box of old stories, and the strange intimacy of talking to a room full of strangers. The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of ...

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How Did a Surgeon in Florida Mistake a Man’s Liver for His Spleen?Inexplicable medical mistakes like this are called “never events,” and they aren’t quite as rare as their name suggests.

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