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Migrants traveling north through Mexico toward the United States on a northbound freight train. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times


Wreckage of Air Algérie Plane Is Found in MaliNYT Now

Officials said the jet, which took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with 116 people on board, went down during a storm in a semidesert area.


Mapping Drought’s Spread Across the U.S.

Droughts appear to be intensifying as a result of global warming, and about 34 percent of the contiguous United States was in at least a moderate drought as of July 22.






The Opinion Pages

Op-Ed | Linda Greenhouse

With All Due DeferenceNYT Now

In a ruling on the University of Texas affirmative action case, the Fifth Circuit supplies what the Supreme Court’s decision lacked: understanding.

Op-Talk

Trouble for Canada’s Aboriginal PeoplesNYT Now

Canada is often lauded as a model of successful multiculturalism – but some say policies have largely neglected its native communities.


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With the Blessing of Bill Gates, a Best Seller

Microsoft’s co-founder has declared “Business Adventures,” published in 1969, his favorite book about business.


Movie Reviews »

A Search and Destroy Thyself Mission

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in “A Most Wanted Man.”

Sleight of Heart

In Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight,” a magician is summoned to the French Riviera.

 

Not Ordinary

Luc Besson’s “Lucy,” turns Scarlett Johansson from a cheerful young woman into a killing machine.

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