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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. Although it remains both the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States as well as being third largest overall, behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the weekday circulation of the paper has fallen precipitously in recent years to fewer than one million copies daily for the first time since the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Gray Lady" and long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record", the Times is owned by The New York Times Company, which also publishes 18 other regional newspapers including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. The company's chairman is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., whose family has controlled the paper since 1896.
The paper's motto, printed in the upper left-hand corner of the front page, is "All the News That's Fit to Print." It is organized into sections: News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science,...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes - — NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. — The production platform, which was operated by the Houston-based Mariner Energy … |
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F.C.C. Seeks More Input on Wireless Internet Rules - — WASHINGTON — On the Internet, data moves at the speed of light. The Federal Communications Commission, not so fast. — After months spent gathering comments about preserving an open and competitive Internet, the F.C.C. requested … |
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Sarah's Amazing Race - — Sarah Palin is going to Iowa to be the headliner at a Republican fund-raiser. In the state that will be the first to hold a contest in the 2012 presidential campaign, even if it has to do it in 2011. — Her staff says this means nothing whatsoever, but let us acknowledge that Palin is on a roll. |
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Netanyahu and Abbas to Begin Direct Mideast Peace Talks - — WASHINGTON — The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace negotiations Thursday after committing to work to end the conflict that has endured for six decades. — The talks are to be held at the State Department … |
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A Dream House After All - IF you read the coverage ... - — IF you read the coverage of the latest figures on the sales of existing homes from the National Association of Realtors, you may well have come to the conclusion that the American dream is dead. It is indeed worrisome that sales in July were down 25 percent from a year ago. |
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Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond - — IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain's royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. |
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Obama Meets Netanyahu as Peace Talks Begin - — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday began the arduous process of coaxing and pressing the main Middle East participants to define and embrace a comprehensive peace settlement. But he had to begin by joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … |
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In Wisconsin, an Incumbent Holds Tight - — WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Senator Russ Feingold says he should not be considered the front-runner in his bid for a fourth term. If that self-appraisal is true, Democrats face a greater risk of losing their majority in the Senate than they believed when summer began. |
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Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque - — A group of teenagers in western New York have been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper with a vehicle and firing a shotgun outside, the authorities said Tuesday. |
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It Adds Up: This Was New York's Hottest Summer - — With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service's record books as the hottest ever in New York City. — Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in 1966 … |
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