Cleaning up the biggest New Year's mess in America

While the rest of us head to bed in the early hours of Jan. 1, New York's sanitation team gets to work

January 1, 2018

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Pfizer says 3rd dose of its vaccine is effective in kids under 5

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A reckoning is coming for blue-checked progressives

A photo illustration of a global map and the word "monkeypox."

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be aware

Florida health officials investigating 'presumptive' monkeypox case

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Briefing

The doctrine of stare decisis

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staying strong

Tornado tears through Gaylord, Michigan

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W. James Antle III

Who's disinforming whom? Why the DHS board failed

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not a good look

Wells Fargo under fire after reportedly staging job interviews for 'diverse' candidates

Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists at a protest.

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abortion in america

Oklahoma Legislature passes bill prohibiting abortion after fertilization

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Briefing

The deadly heat wave frying India and Pakistan

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big if true

Russia claims to have captured Mariupol

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