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With no plans for American military intervention, the United States is frantically brokering peace talks between the warring factions while trying to fortify a United Nations peacekeeping force.
The assassination of Hassane Laqees, Hezbollah’s master technician and logistics expert, has exposed a convulsing region’s shifting alliances and enmities.
The activities of Steven C. LaTourette, a former congressman who defends centrist Republicans from Tea Party challengers, have raised questions.
President Obama insisted that lawmakers make restoring unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans their “first order of business” in 2014.
As New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, right, will reunite with his friend and sidekick, John Miller, a prominent CBS News reporter. Above, the two in 2004.
Liberals were excited about the mayoral win of one of their own, Bill de Blasio, but he has yet to crystallize his agenda.
Carmen Fariña, a 40-year veteran of the city school system, gained a reputation as a stern manager. Ms. Fariña will lean on her experience in her new role.
Songs by Mr. Everly and his older brother, Don Everly, carried the close fraternal harmonies of country tradition into pioneering rock ‘n’ roll.
The approval of an eight-year contract extension ensures that the new 777X aircraft will be built in Washington State.
What stopped the world’s biggest tunnel-boring machine? A cottage industry of speculation yields to mundane metal.
Melissa Clark makes a a spinach salad with prosciutto; David Tanis makes tagine, a Moroccan stew.
Secretary of State John Kerry presses Israelis and Palestinians to stick to the peace negotiations timetable he set in July.
Experts weigh in on where the economy is heading and what kind of strategies investors should explore.
John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?
Chang-rae Lee’s new novel imagines a future after the breakdown of society.
This week’s properties include a condo in Miami Beach, a four-square in Idaho and a midcentury modern near Chicago.
After being knocked out of commission in 1969 by an engine fire and spending the next 44 years in hibernation, a rare 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS will come under the glare of spotlights on Jan. 18 when it is auctioned in Arizona.
“I have an office, but most of the time I just walk around and try to determine if we’ve got any problems.”
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