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  1. 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?”

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

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  3. 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 Taliban

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  4. In Opinion The editorial board writes, "Presidents do not get to outlaw speech simply because they find it distasteful."

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  5. 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.

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  6. The U.S. and India are strengthening their military partnership as both powers warily eye the rise of China

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  7. "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."

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  8. What is the weirdest, most interesting or most beautiful roadside attraction you have ever seen?

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    The Facebook page of journalist Samim Faramarz, killed on live TV as he reported on the death of other civilians, reads like a calendar of loss. His poetic eloquence reflected the frustrations of a generation losing hope in the face of cruel attacks.

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  10. 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 members

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  11. A giant, multimillion-dollar complex in Manchester, England, has won architecture’s most unwanted prize: Britain’s ugliest building of 2018

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    President Trump has never handled criticism well, and Bob Woodward's book and a critical Op-Ed by an anonymous senior administration official made this past week especially challenging.

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  13. 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.

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  14. Burt Reynolds's hairy-chested centerfold was the nude heard around the world

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  15. Almost demolished. Almost donated. The saga of a Frank Lloyd Wright home in Phoenix continues: It is now for sale for almost $13 million.

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  16. 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 kneeling

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  17. Henry Golding — the newly minted “Crazy Rich Asians” heartthrob — was in the front row at Tom Ford, the first show of New York Fashion Week

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  18. “Everyone in the administration thinks they are a senior administration official,” said Jason Chaffetz, a former Republican congressman. “It doesn’t eliminate anybody.”

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  19. 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 humanity

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  20. “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 cookies

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