Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Harlem Kills 2 and Sickens More Than 50

The source of the illness has not been conclusively identified more than a week after people began getting sick.

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Jacob’s Pillow Cancels Remainder of Festival After Death at Center

A production manager died at the dance center last week in what the district attorney’s office in Berkshire County, Mass., described as a workplace accident.

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Trump Sends His Envoy to Russia With Sanctions Deadline Looming

The envoy, Steve Witkoff, is making his fifth visit this year. He has managed to secure some prisoner exchanges but made no clear progress so far on ending the war in Ukraine.

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Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. Advance in Detroit Mayoral Election

Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. will face off in a November election. Mike Duggan, Detroit’s mayor for a dozen years, is not seeking re-election.

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China Is a Nation of Savers. Many Are Drowning in Debt.

As Beijing pushes consumer lending to stimulate the economy, millions of Chinese borrowers, especially the young, are falling into debt spirals.

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Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers

Eighty years after the atomic bombing, some Japanese think that peace for peace’s sake is no longer enough.

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How the Nuclear Attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Changed Japan

The country’s postwar Constitution is under scrutiny as Japan rebuilds its military, spooked by a rising China and other potential threats.

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Wednesday Briefing: Netanyahu’s Next Steps in Gaza

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Video Forces Pakistan to Confront ‘Honor Killings’ and Gender Violence

Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video.

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RFK Jr. Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.

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