The New York Times
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Mujib Mashal
– Jul 1, 4:16 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan — He was a lowly drug smuggler, neighbors and relatives say, then ventured into contracting, seeking a slice of the billions of dollars the U.S.-led coalition was funneling into construction projects in Afghanistan. But he…
The New York Times
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Jim Tankersley
– Jul 1, 9:02 AM
The nascent restart of America's economy has begun to stall as a surge in new coronavirus cases dampens consumer and business activity across states like Florida, Texas and Arizona. After weeks of a pandemic-induced contraction, the economy had…
The New York Times
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Kurt Streeter
– Jul 1, 4:26 PM
Jonathan Irons, whose bid for freedom from a 50-year prison sentence was embraced and pushed by the W.N.B.A. star Maya Moore, walked out of a Missouri penitentiary on Wednesday, nearly four months after a judge overturned his conviction on charges…
Vanilla Ice is throwing a Fourth of July weekend concert deep in the heart of pandemic hotspot Texas. The Iceman will cometh this Friday at a concert venue in Austin, where all the bars are otherwise closed due to COVID-19. The concert is titled…
The Washington Post
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Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig
– Jul 1, 4:29 PM
Health-care workers were quizzed about whether they had leaked the information about the positive cases to the news media — and then were given a different list of people to test, according to two people with direct knowledge of the events.
