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An uncle of an Afghan journalist who was killed this week said he asked him to quit his job many times. "He kept telling me that if he left his job and his other colleagues left, who would show the sorrow and pain of the Afghan people to the world?”https://nyti.ms/2wSsLF8 

The Playboy Bunny is returning at a New York City club. But is a cotton-tailed cocktail server simply a specter of sexism past?https://nyti.ms/2QafSiP 

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit, in the midst of a push by the Trump administration to restart peace talks with the Talibanhttps://nyti.ms/2wPQNRg 

In Opinion The editorial board writes, "Presidents do not get to outlaw speech simply because they find it distasteful."https://nyti.ms/2MTvmd9 

Naomi Osaka will become the first woman born in Japan to play in a Grand Slam final. Revisit our profile of the 20-year-old tennis star.https://nyti.ms/2wRahVM 

The U.S. and India are strengthening their military partnership as both powers warily eye the rise of Chinahttps://nyti.ms/2CtQ7an 

"Placentas are often colonized with bacteria. Many are infected. As a general rule it’s best not to eat something that is potentially teeming with bacteria."https://nyti.ms/2MRwr54 

What is the weirdest, most interesting or most beautiful roadside attraction you have ever seen?https://nyti.ms/2wQNucG 

Mexican authorities found a mass grave with 168 human skulls in Veracruz State, a somber reminder of the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing at the hands of organized crime membershttps://nyti.ms/2CrZPdp 

A giant, multimillion-dollar complex in Manchester, England, has won architecture’s most unwanted prize: Britain’s ugliest building of 2018https://nyti.ms/2MXi5QI 

The beauty of the Genoa Bridge was its simplicity. But engineers gradually recognized that the structure had so few crucial supports that if even one of them failed, an entire section could collapse.https://nyti.ms/2wNVlaV 

Burt Reynolds's hairy-chested centerfold was the nude heard around the worldhttps://nyti.ms/2MRs6yG 

Almost demolished. Almost donated. The saga of a Frank Lloyd Wright home in Phoenix continues: It is now for sale for almost $13 million.https://nyti.ms/2MQeJyR 

Almost exactly a year after NFL players’ protests exploded into a polarizing political debate, thousands of eyes once again scanned the sidelines to see if anyone in uniform was kneelinghttps://nyti.ms/2MSlyQq 

Henry Golding — the newly minted “Crazy Rich Asians” heartthrob — was in the front row at Tom Ford, the first show of New York Fashion Weekhttps://nyti.ms/2Q8Ske6 

“Everyone in the administration thinks they are a senior administration official,” said Jason Chaffetz, a former Republican congressman. “It doesn’t eliminate anybody.”https://nyti.ms/2CueZPi 

Judges at the International Criminal Court said they could investigate the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes in Myanmar as a crime against humanityhttps://nyti.ms/2CuwW0e 

“Chinese people really dislike this kind of westernized Chinese culture,” a film critic said, comparing "Crazy Rich Asians" to General Tso’s chicken and fortune cookieshttps://nyti.ms/2CsX6Al