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The Department of Justice will unseal charges against several People’s Liberation Army workers, accusing them of stealing secrets from American firms and marking the first time the U.S. has charged state actors with economic espionage.
Nigeria has claimed to have killed Abubakar Shekau in the past, but the Boko Haram leader’s emergence in a video of kidnapped girls has brought attention to his long record of ferocious violence and harsh rhetoric.
AstraZeneca on Monday rejected Pfizer’s latest — and, according to the American pharmaceutical giant, final — takeover bid.
Nine months into his tenure as F.B.I. director, James B. Comey acknowledges that he underestimated the threat the United States still faces from terrorism.
Guanabara Bay, the venue for the 2016 sailing and windsurfing events, is so foul that a biologist called it “a latrine” and a sailor said he has encountered bodies.
Male-dominated machine politics and unions, and persistent prejudice, have helped keep women from governorships in the region.
Workers who built the campus faced grim conditions, in stark contrast to the university’s pledges to treat them fairly.
With Ukraine still roiled by separatist violence in the east, the growing air of inevitability around the presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko has redrawn the conflict.
Instances of wrongful imprisonment revealed the flaws of microscopic hair analysis, a staple of forensics for years.
The lack of decorum in Jill Abramson’s dismissal from The Times was stunning, David Carr writes.
Lawsuits to overturn the Affordable Care Act are just desperate attempts to do in the courts what Republicans have failed to do in the political arena.
State legislatures have favored employers over their employees.
The activist has organized an unlikely group to protest TransCanada’s pipeline project: Nebraska ranchers and farmers.
Women’s events aren’t just about consciousness-raising anymore. They’re a business.
Offstage, the actors retreat to their quiet Westchester home.
The 2014 Chevrolet SS is a strange beast. It’s a Chevy performance sedan that used to be a Pontiac and a thoroughly American car that’s built in Australia.
The head of a marketing company is out to prove the impossible is possible.
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