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Los Angeles was still burning two weeks ago when Mayor Karen Bass turned to one of this city’s most prominent developers and asked him to serve as her rebuilding czar after vast parts of the region were leveled by wildfires. Steve Soboroff, a longtime civic leader and onetime resident of the Pacific Palisades, the coastal…
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The Aga Khan IV, who as the leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims fused entrepreneurship and philanthropy in becoming one of the world’s wealthiest hereditary rulers, died on Tuesday in Lisbon. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his Aga Khan Development Network in a post on X, the social media site. No cause…
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When I look at the torrent of executive orders and tariffs President Trump has issued since taking office, I fear that I’m watching the real-life version of that Certified Financial Planner Board commercial that tries to show why expertise really does matter. In the commercial, a surgeon comes into a hospital room and meets his…
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Flying helicopters near Ronald Reagan National Airport always carries some risk. But the conditions on the moonless night of Jan. 29, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided, were unusually challenging. Many of the factors that contributed to the disaster are still being uncovered as investigators from the National…
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Search crews on Tuesday recovered the final remains of 67 people who died in Washington last week after a collision between a passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter. The authorities said that all but one of the bodies had been identified. “Our hearts are with the victims’ families as they navigate this tragic loss,”…
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The idea was so tantalizing. Drugs in the GLP-1 class, which includes Wegovy and Ozempic, have proved miraculous in treating weight loss and other diseases. And some researchers hoped that the drugs could also help with some of the most difficult diseases to treat — those of the brain, like Parkinson’s. But now, at least…
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A Georgian man charged with buying and reselling stolen watches, handbags and other luxury items in Manhattan’s Diamond District is linked to a group believed to have burglarized the home of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, according to a person with knowledge of the case. The man, Dimitriy Nezhinskiy, and another suspect, Juan Villar, were…
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As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way. Since the inauguration, Mr. Musk has attacked journalists and X users for…
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Josh Kraft, a son of the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert K. Kraft, and the head of the team’s philanthropic foundation, announced on Tuesday that he is running against Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, a progressive Democrat, who is up for re-election this year. At an event kicking off his campaign, Mr. Kraft,…
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That is why the early moments of such a fire are so critical, said Venkatesh Kodur, the director of the Center for Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. Fires grow exponentially, he said, so it is vital for crews to be able to combat a blaze as much as possible in the…