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The plot of a would-be hijacker was foiled in the skies above Saudi Arabia; the perpetrator, the copilot of an Israel-bound airliner, assailed the plane’s captain with an axe in an attempt to commandeer and likely crash the aircraft, but was subdued by its passengers, most of whom were Israeli.1 2 The Israel Defense Forces published the names of 170 Palestinians whom its soldiers killed in Gaza, suspecting them of being combatants posing as journalists; the Committee to Protect Journalists...

New York Dear Jean, The Dodgers never had to come back, as I guess you know. So we only had two games to watch in New York, and that was the start of the Dodgers’ sweep of the Series last fall. The second game was the one I saw. I could not have gone alone. I have no affection for these teams. The animus peculiar to Giant followers penned in with either the Yankees or the Dodgers rises in me, though with both teams in the same park—the Yankee Stadium at that—it subsides to melancholia.

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In his address before the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. president delineated his options in his country’s scrum with Iran.

Photograph courtesy Belén Fernández The Darién Gap, the more than sixty-mile strip of muddy, mountainous jungle that connects Central and South America, has remained sparsely populated for centuries. Yet some found refuge in its difficult terrain. In accounts of the colonial era, enslaved Africans who escaped bondage founded free communities along its rivers and coasts.

United Nations investigators stated in a report to the Human Rights Council that they had “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United States committed war crimes in at least two instances in Iran, including in its air strike of a primary school in Minab that killed 120 children.1 Ukraine fired more than 1,900 drones, cruise missiles, and rockets at Moscow, in what was the largest attack of the war on the Russian capital.2 Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,...

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