Hugh was described in a report on the inquest as a “respectable, hard-working man ... by the 1840s, had made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster if any leg of the three-legged stool ...

Israel is again starving Palestinians in Gaza as its renewed bombardment kills hundreds, many of them children.

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Let’s rank the 16 teams still standing in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament by their national championship chances.

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Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

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