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    7 Dec 2021

    In the middle of the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of new Americans flooded into New York. They found homes in buildings like this one, on Orchard Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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  2. 7 minutes ago

    Rocky ledge falls onto boats in Brazil and kills several people, authorities say

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  3. 33 minutes ago

    Why is Kazakhstan claiming foreign links to the unrest? Here’s what we know.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    A growing global potato shortage is affecting french fries, from Japan to Kenya

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  5. 1 hour ago

    First fatality of rare Colorado winter fire identified as Robert Sharpe, family archivist who cherished his home

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Marian Liu is tired of hiding her true identity. She’s starting by changing her byline.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Rolling Stones Altamont concert footage found in Library of Congress archives

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  8. 2 hours ago

    In Baton Rouge, there’s a $100 million football coach. Everyone else — even LSU students and employees — scrape by.

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Omicron forces short winter courses to go online at many colleges

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  10. 3 hours ago

    Analysis: Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 — two anniversaries that explain how Democrats approached governing over the past year

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  11. 3 hours ago

    Between an active monsoon and hurricane season, the sky unleashed an unusual amount of lightning in the Southwest, Northeast and Gulf Coast in 2021.

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  12. 3 hours ago

    After second suspension, Metro says timing for return of railcars is unknown

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  13. 3 hours ago

    Names can be potent symbols that evoke pride, but also bigotry, shame and fear. Did you feel the need to Anglicize your name to fit in? Or did you choose to use your given name? Share your name journey here:

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  14. 4 hours ago

    Liu wants her name to tell her whole story. She's going to start by telling folks she has a Chinese name and how to properly pronounce her last name. Let her reintroduce herself as Marian Chia-Ming Liu:

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  15. 4 hours ago

    We’ve deleted a tweet that inaccurately represented the scope of the story.

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  16. 4 hours ago

    Biden, funerals and a bygone America

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  17. 4 hours ago

    Analysis: 2021 shattered job market records, but it’s not as good as it looks

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  18. 4 hours ago

    Liu's last name is pronounced “LEE-ō” (柳) and means “willow tree.” Her mom’s maiden name is Ling (林), meaning “forest,” and together with her dad’s last name, they represent a beautiful partnership.

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  19. 4 hours ago

    Many Chinese names are made up of three characters: the family name, followed by a name that is shared with one's generation, then the individual name. These names show not only the ties to family and history, but how Chinese people put them first.

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  20. 4 hours ago

    Russia’s rifts with the West keep growing. Here's a chronology of how we got here.

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  21. 4 hours ago

    Like many Asian Americans, Marian Liu has long spurned her full name. Her experience reporting on the increase in anti-Asian sentiment and violence made her realize she needed to stop hiding. And her name was a good place to start.

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