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President Biden had been scheduled to leave for Germany and Angola on Thursday. Source link

New York Mets fans taking the 7 train to Citi Field Tuesday for Game 3 of the National League Division Series might run into a beloved mascot, while riding on trains draped in its image. Yet the character in question won’t be the big-headed Mr. Met, the stalwart of the …

A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward also reports that Donald J. Trump, while still in office, secretly sent Vladimir Putin what were then rare Covid-19 tests for the Russian’s leader’s personal use. Source link

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — After the Connecticut Sun’s Game 3 semifinal loss to the Minnesota Lynx, Sun coach Stephanie White said her staff didn’t do a good enough job of getting players prepared. She said the Sun were outplayed, out-executed and, most of all, out-coached. On Saturday, the lone day between …

The official secretly took $3 million in gifts from a businessman to whom he steered the organization’s funds, a court ruled. The U.N. got a song about the ocean. Source link

By Fabian Ardaya, Andy McCullough and Ken Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Monday he thought San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado threw a baseball at him between innings of Game 2 of the NLDS, adding yet another layer to an emotion-filled debacle in …

Russian troops have now entered Toretsk, a strategic hilltop city, and are pressing with assaults elsewhere in the Donetsk region. Source link

A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris with a slim lead over Donald J. Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a break from the status quo. Source link

On the second day of the new term, the justices will wrestle with whether the federal government can regulate kits that can be assembled into untraceable homemade guns. Source link

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see. Source link