For John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down

The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Listen to the conversation.

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E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email

Invoking an obscure provision, it said power plants and others could write to ask for exemptions to mercury, arsenic and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”

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Turkey Deports BBC Reporter Who Covered Mass Protests

Mark Lowen was detained in Istanbul after reporting on unrest prompted by the arrest of a rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the broadcaster said.

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Tourist Submarine Sinks Off Egypt’s Red Sea Coast

The vessel was said to be carrying more than 40 tourists near the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

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Volunteer ‘Puppy Raisers’ Train Service Dogs to Tackle Shortage

Volunteer “puppy raisers” are chipping away at a shortage of service dogs, one short-term adoption at a time.

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Auto Tariff Sticker Shock

President Trump’s vow to hit the global automotive industry with new duties risks raising inflation and inflaming trade-war tensions.

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Auto Stocks Tumble After Trump’s Tariffs Announcement

The U.S. levies are likely to disrupt the complex supply chains of major carmakers, hitting companies that export vehicles from Mexico, Canada Japan, South Korea and Germany.

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At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself

Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.

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In His Play, a Guard at the Met Finds Solace in the Museum

Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work through grief.

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