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How Russia is recruiting Cubans to fight in Ukraine

ALEX VEGAS DÍAZ WAS SURPRISED to find himself sleeping next to Russian soldiers in a trench in Ukraine, more than 6,000 miles from home. In his telling, the 19-year-old Cuban accepted an offer posted on WhatsApp to make good money doing \"construction work\" for the Russian military.

How NASA got a 'UFO czar' and why it matters

THE REAL CZARS MAY BE LONG GONE, BUT FOR DECADES, the White House has been keeping the honorific alive, appointing a director to oversee a task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it.

More than 2,900 in Morocco Victims of a devastating earthquake

FOR MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER A 6.8-MAGNITUDE EARTH-quake brought down houses and killed over 2,900 people on Sept. 8 in Morocco, people in Marrakech and across the country's High Atlas Mountains were still sleeping outside. While some are afraid to return to their homes in case of aftershocks, others have nowhere else to go.

Impeachment probe - Aiming for Biden

Under pressure from hard-right members, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Sept. 12 over his family's business dealings, despite an absence of evidence that Biden profited from them.

What's behind the spike in child poverty in the U.S.?

THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY IN the U.S. more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it began using its current method to count them. In 2021, 5.2% of children were living in poverty.

India tried to reintroduce cheetahs-then it all went wrong

LAST SEPTEMBER, EIGHT RADIO-collared cheetahs made the 5,000-mile-long journey from Namibia to Kuno National Park in India.

She Just Had a Baby. Soon, She'll Start Seventh Grade

In post-dobbs America, some girls can go out of state to get an abortion. This is the story of one who couldn't

Girls just want to have fun, yet this feels like work

There's always some way to reinvigorate an old genre, and anybody with the energy and imagination to do so should try.

The D.C. Brief

To hear his rivals tell it, he's a charlatan unfit for the job. But if you listen closely enough, you also hear fear about the prospects of Vivek Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old tech bro who was the surprising bull's-eye of Aug. 23's first Republican presidential debate.

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Bob Barker

Enduring host

Outsiders are shaking up Latin America's politics

GUATEMALA AND Ecuador held elections on Aug. 20; two small countries, but revealing some key trends in Latin American politics.

What is Florida's 'hurricane tax'?

IN FLORIDA, IT WON'T BE JUST THOSE with homes and businesses hit by Hurricane Idalia who might be stuck picking up the pieces.

The staggering economic impact of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SWIFTIE TO have been touched by Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, which kicked off in March and ended its first U.S. leg on Aug. 9.

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What Prigozhin's end says about Russia

Prigozhin was the latest in a long line of court favorites

THE DECAY OF IRAN

The Islamic Republic of Iran has thus far proved too ideologically rigid to reform and too ruthless to collapse. As in the late stages of the Soviet Union, however, the foundations decay in plain sight. Outside their homeland, women of Iranian origin become world-class mathematicians and astronauts; inside Iran, the ruling clerics debate whether women should be allowed to ride bicycles.

5 red flags for online mental-health content

THE CLASSIC VISION OF THERAPY REVOLVED AROUND A PERSON ON A COUCH, SUPINE, TAPPING into their deepest and darkest hopes and fears to a seated guy with a beard.

Small grocers are hurting. My buying habits don't help

EVERY WEEK, I GO ONTO WALMART'S WEBSITE AND order a bunch of groceries to be delivered to my house, and then feel a little bit guilty.

TESTING A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS

New York struggles to accommodate tens of thousands of migrants bused from other states

5 ways to strengthen a friendship

It might sound obvious, in the midst of a loneliness crisis, that having friends matters. But many of us "underestimate the very real impact our friendships can have on our life," says Marisa Franco, a psychologist and author of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make-and Keep-Friends. "Connection is the most important factor predicting our health, both physical and mental."

Half human, half robot

I was born missing my left arm. And while there really isn’t anything I can’t do, it felt like an obvious inadequacy in a world saturated with an obsessive desire for perfection.

Writing for Friends was no joke

EVER SINCE I RETIRED FROM TELEVISION WRITING AT the ripe age of 38, people have asked me, \"Why would you quit such a cool career?\" It's impossible to answer this question over cocktail-party conversation. Where would I even begin? There were the grueling hours, the egotistical bosses, the dysfunction-there's everything the Writers Guild of America is currently fighting against with their ongoing strike, and the issues have only gotten more complex since I left in 2008.

The man who was everything, and then some

IN A NATION TORN APART BY, OF ALL THINGS, the perception that drag performers will corrupt our children, the time is right for a documentary about the glitter king himself, Little Richard, a performer who broke all kinds of boundaries at a time when doing so could be life-threatening.