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US will use ‘any appropriate measures’ to combat North Korea, says Trump aide

Alex Wong | Getty Images White House Deputy Assistant To The President Sebastian Gorka speaks as he is interviewed by Fox News remotely from the White House June 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. “We do not telegraph our future scenarios and how we are going to react. That’s how the …

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The Architect, the Red Scare and the House That Disappeared

“The Breuer-designed ‘House in the Museum Garden’ was intended to counter Levittown,” said Barry Bergdoll, a MoMA curator, referring to the banal tract housing development built by William Levitt on Long Island in the 1940s. “It was to show that you could have a good house — tasteful, modern, in …

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Iran may pose a nuclear problem for Donald Trump

Mahmood Hosseini | TIMA | Reuters A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, March 9, 2016. Walker also said that, if the Trump administration can’t keep both issues in-check at the same time, “they should quit and go home.” Walker added, “President Trump has put …

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What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me’ and ‘S.N.L.: Weekend Update’

Photo A scene from “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me.” Credit Richard Landers/Area 23a “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” follows the singer and guitarist, who died on Tuesday after battling Alzheimer’s, on his farewell tour. And “Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update” lampoons the news in a summer edition. What’s Streaming GLEN …

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Modern Love Podcast: Betty Gilpin Reads ‘A Lost Child, but Not Mine’

On this week’s podcast, the actress Betty Gilpin reads “A Lost Child, but Not Mine,” about a woman who imagines the course her life might have taken had she chosen to see her pregnancy to term. Photo Credit Brian Rea Kassi Underwood, the writer, expanded her essay into the memoir …

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Bill Murray Attends ‘Groundhog Day’ Again, and It Feels Like … Well, You Know

Photo Bill Murray on his way to attend “Groundhog Day” on Broadway on Tuesday. He returned on Wednesday. Credit Hilary Swift for The New York Times What did Bill Murray do today? Oh. Same-old, same-old. Mr. Murray, for the second night in a row, went to see “Groundhog Day,” the …

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Shares jump 36% for major Chinese conglomerate unit on news of $1 billion deal

VCG | Getty Images Wanda Group’s chairman Wang Jianlin makes speech at China University of Political Science and Law on May 12, 2017 in Beijing, China. Wanda Hotel Development, a unit of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group ledby Wang Jianlin, said it would buy assets worth over 7 billion yuan …

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Taylor Swift’s Mother Confronts Man She Says Groped the Star

Eight jurors — six women and two men — are deciding the two cases in a trial scheduled to last nine days. Photo Ms. Swift’s mother, Andrea Swift, center, sitting between her daughter, left, and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2010. Credit …

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Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster

The statuette was in the 1881 exhibition of the Impressionists, a group that Gauguin wheedled his way into as a collector. At first he was only an amateur artist, holding onto a day job as a stockbroker’s assistant. Yet by 1885 his commitment to art was so total that he …

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North Korea says it will develop Guam strike plan by mid-August

KCNA | Reuters North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-fire of inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July, 4 2017. North Korea will develop a plan by mid-August to launch four intermediate range …

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