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‘No Alarm Went Off’: Hong Kong Fire Survivor Recounts Harrowing Escape

Many windows were covered, preventing residents from seeing the fire and smoke, one survivor said.

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A survivor said the fire moved with terrible speed as it seemed to climb up the tall apartment towers and then jump across the gaps between them.
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Sean Duffy Longs for the ‘Golden Days’ of Air Travel. What Was That Like?

Back in the ’50s and ’60s, passengers (well-dressed, of course, and with perfect manners) could count on hot meals on china, plenty of legroom, the occasional piano bar, even wool blankets. Those days are gone.

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Fewer people flew in the 1960s, which allowed airlines to use the extra space for lounges where people drank and socialized.
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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

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Paulina Borsook in Berkeley, Calif. Her 1999 book, “Cyberselfish,” was largely ignored and written off as overly skeptical of Silicon Valley at the time.
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ABBA’s Popular Hologram Show Could Come to New York City

ABBA Voyage, the popular London show, features holograph versions of the Swedish pop band when they were decades younger.

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The ABBA Voyage show has drawn millions of spectators to the ABBA Arena in London.
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Amid Strobes and a Beat Drop, Pope Blesses Rave-Goers

A papal video message appeared before a crowd of hundreds in Slovakia, as Guilherme Peixoto, a priest who doubles as an electronic D.J., put on a show.

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Pope Leo XIV addressed the crowd on video at a rave in Slovakia earlier this month.
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Heading to the Mideast, Pope Leo May Show ‘Who He Really Is’

The pontiff begins a trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday — the first foreign voyage of his papacy, and his biggest test yet.

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A billboard welcoming Pope Leo XIV in Beirut, Lebanon. The country has the largest community of Catholics in the Middle East.
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Operation Allies Welcome, Gave Some Afghans Entry to the U.S.

The Biden administration set up the initiative after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021 for those who assisted U.S. troops.

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Brig. Gen. Dan Gabrielli greeting Afghans at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico as part of Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.
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Dominican Republic Allows U.S. to Use Territory to Fight International Organized Crime

The Dominican leader, Luis Abinader, said the Pentagon could use restricted areas within the San Isidro Air Base and Las Américas International Airport for refueling and transporting equipment and technical personnel.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a news conference after meeting with President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.
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Leaked Transcript of Witkoff Call Shows U.S. Deference to Russia

The White House envoy’s conversation suggests that President Trump is determined to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine, even if it is mostly on Russia’s terms.

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President Trump defended his envoy Steve Witkoff’s leaked conversation as a “standard thing” that “a deal maker does.”
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Trump Orders 500 More National Guard Troops to D.C. After Shooting

The deployment also follows a monthslong debate about the role of the National Guard in American cities.

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A cordoned-off area near a shooting in Washington on Wednesday. Last week, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the president’s National Guard deployment appeared to violate the law.
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