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Half of New York City Children Passed Math and Reading Tests

The pass rates are up, but the state’s annual exams were overhauled, so the results can’t really be compared with…

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Russia May Be Planning to Test a Nuclear-Powered Missile

Visual evidence from a remote base in the Arctic shows launch preparations mirroring those that preceded earlier tests.

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Health

F.D.A. Moves to Regulate Lab Tests That It Says Put Patients ‘at Risk’

Genetic testing that reveals potential cancer risks or other maladies with no regulatory oversight is among the targets of the…

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Arts

How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture

From the Trinity test to “Oppenheimer” and “Asteroid City,” the symbol of nuclear destruction has held multiple but equally disturbing…

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World

What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test

July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were…

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North Korea Launches Two Ballistic Missiles: What to Know

The test came two days before North Korea was set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that…

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Travel

Ohio Train Derailment: Separating Fact From Fiction

The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that spilled toxic chemicals and led to a controlled burn of the substances…

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World

Are North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Tests as Safe as the Country Claims?

The country has conducted six underground nuclear tests, and a seventh may be on the way. Rights groups fear their…

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Travel

Many in East Palestine, Skeptical of Official Tests, Seek Out Their Own

The moves reflect residents’ deep-seated mistrust of government screenings of toxic chemicals and fears of long-term effects from the train…

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World

North Korea Launches ICBM

It was the North’s first test of a long-range missile in three months, and came as the country warned of…

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