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Facing criticism amid fraying relations with China, American officials privately acknowledged missteps in the handling of the Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng.
In China’s media and on the Internet, discussion of Mr. Chen’s plight has been aggressively censored.
Shares of the hottest initial public offerings go mostly to Wall Street banks that oversee the stock sale, but Facebook has discussed making more shares available to retail investors.
Al Qaeda’s senior leadership was split by debates on tactics, strategy and even marketing in the months leading up to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Some of Washington’s leading lobbyists are mounting a concerted push to earn, if not respectability, at least something short of disdain. Above, Howard Marlowe.
Some construction workers are getting more than they bargained for as they search for ad hoc jobs.
A print tucked into an old text at Brown University was signed “P. Revere Sculp,” and Marie Malchodi, the technician who found it, knew it might be big.
Japan will become a nuclear-free nation for the first time in more than four decades, at least temporarily.
The Yankees’ durable closer, Mariano Rivera, crumpled to the ground with a knee injury after chasing a fly ball, casting doubt on the team’s prospects for the season.
Friends and those who knew him remembered Junior Seau, whose death was ruled a suicide Thursday, from his teenage years to after his N.F.L. career ended.
The treatment of Jose Padilla was indisputably cruel and in breach of the minimum standard required for a person in American custody.
Culinary wizardry, architectural marvels and more await in the Catalan city by the sea.
A guide to three sites that will help you get money back if the cost of your flight or hotel goes down.
Crash-induced foreclosures on second homes haven’t been a real drain on the market, because most foreigners buy in cash.
For the Terrafugia Transition, federal regulators have had to determine which rules — aircraft or automotive — take precedence, because the vehicle is both.
Shellye Archambeau of MetricStream says that earlier in her career, she didn’t ask anyone directly about becoming her mentor, but that “I would just start treating them like it.”
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