Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions

Mr. Epstein, the late financier and sex offender, started by putting $40 million into Valar Ventures, a firm backed by Mr. Thiel. Today that investment is worth about $170 million.

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Edmund White, Pioneer of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 85

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

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Trump Allies Try to Discredit Experts Warning About the Cost of Tax Cuts

President Trump and his allies have united around a new foe: the economists and budget experts who have warned about the costs of Republicans’ tax ambitions.

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U.K. Exempt From Trump’s 50% Steel Tariff, but Europe Still Has to Pay

Despite an exemption from 50 percent tariffs, Britain still faces a 25 percent duty because its trade deal with the United States has yet to be put in place.

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Trump Says Putin Plans to Retaliate for Ukrainian Attack on Its Warplanes

President Trump said the Russian leader told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he would respond to the drone assault on its airfields.

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Rosana Paulino, a Brazilian Artist Who Wields Poetry and Persistence

Allegorical forest creatures meet ethnographic archives in Rosana Paulino’s art — influential in Brazil, and now on view in New York.

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It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’

Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new research shows.

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Deadly Crowd Crush Mars Celebration for Indian Cricket Championship

At least 11 people were killed, officials said, as assembled fans tried to push their way into a stadium for hastily arranged festivities.

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Putin and Zelensky Trade Accusations Amid Escalating Attacks

The belligerent language and the recent strikes make clear that a wide gap separates Ukraine and Russia, even as their officials have been engaged in direct talks.

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5 Books on Navigating Family

Researchers shared the titles they recommend most often.

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