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Profile: Surfer, Environmentalist, Novelist. Australia’s Living Legend.
Tim Winton has carved a voice that is uniquely Australian, finding poetry and an austere beauty in local vernacular and landscape.
Nick Meglin, 82, a Mad Magazine Mainstay, Is Dead
Nick Meglin at the Mad magazine office in Manhattan in the 1980s. The magazine’s publisher, William M. Gaines, once called Mr. Meglin “the soul and conscience” of Mad.
Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to Resolve Dispute With Greece
Demonstrators in Pella, Greece, protesting the use of the name “Macedonia” in any solution to a dispute between Athens and Skopje over the former Yugoslav republic’s name.
Fact Check of the Day: With Misleading Claims, Trump Dismisses 1994 North Korea Nuclear Deal
Following his summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, President Trump claimed on Tuesday that North Korea “took billions of dollars” during the Clinton administration for “nothing.” Neither claim is true.
Elon Musk, in Search of Profit, Cuts Tesla’s Work Force
A Tesla Model S at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany in 2015. Elon Musk, the carmaker’s chief executive, said on Tuesday that the company was reorganizing amid a push for profits.
Where U.S.-Canadian Border Is Marked by Petunias, Not a Wall
A row of flower pots delineates the border between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt.
The German Feminists’ Dilemma
A memorial for a 19-year-old medical student who was raped and murdered in October 2016 in Breisgau, Germany, by an Afghan asylum seeker.
The Ohio Purge and the Future of Voting
Demonstrators including, second from right, Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, outside the Supreme Court on January at a rally opposing Ohio’s system of purging infrequent voters.
Facing Defeat on Brexit, May Gives Ground to U.K.’s Parliament
Anti-Brexit demonstrators outside Parliament in London.
Trump Concession Over Military Drills Blindsides Many South Koreans
South Koreans at a train station in Seoul watching television coverage of the Singapore summit meeting between President Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
Trilobites: Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?
“The Great Day of His Wrath” by John Martin, circa 1851.
Air Force Captain Who Deserted in 1983 Is Found in California, Using a Fake Identity
In 1983, Capt. William Howard Hughes Jr. deserted from the Air Force. Last week, he was found living in California. He said he fled because he was depressed with his job.
Matter: A Crispr Conundrum: How Cells Fend Off Gene Editing
Embryonic stem cells surrounded by feeder cells. When a team of scientists tried using Crispr to turn stem cells into neurons, they found that many of them died unless a cancer-fighting gene also was
A Play Caught in the Crossfire
Antoinette Nwandu gave up her teaching job to focus on writing for the stage, a risk that paid off with her new play.
Another Chance at the U.S. Open for Phil Mickelson and Shinnecock Hills
At the 1995 United States Open, Phil Mickelson was six over on the par-5 16th at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club for the week, including a double bogey in the final round.
What Country Will Win the 2018 World Cup? Here Are Big Banks’ Predictions
As Russia prepares to host the World Cup, the world’s major banks have been using their quantitative skills to predict the winner.
