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Los Angeles declares a 'homeless emergency'
New York Times, Published on 23/09/2015
» LOS ANGELES -- Flooded with homeless encampments from its freeway underpasses to the chic sidewalks of Venice Beach, municipal officials here declared a public emergency on Tuesday, making Los Angeles the first city in the United States to take such a drastic step in response to its mounting problem with street dwellers.
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Carol Doda, 78, pioneer of topless entertainment
New York Times, Published on 13/11/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Colourful Carol Doda, widely credited with triggering a nationwide topless revolution as a 26-year-old go-go dancer in 1964, died on Monday in her native San Francisco. She was 78.
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Survey: Clinton has clinched Democratic nomination
New York Times, Published on 07/06/2016
» Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture the presidential nomination of one of the US major political parties on Monday night, according to an Associated Press survey of Democratic superdelegates, securing enough of them to overcome a bruising challenge from senator Bernie Sanders and turn to a brutal five-month campaign against Donald J. Trump.
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Rising sea shocks Pacific's Kiribati
News, New York Times, Published on 04/07/2016
» One clear bright day last winter, a tidal surge swept over an ocean embankment here in the remote, low-lying island country of Kiribati, smashing through the doors and windows of Betio Hospital and spewing sand and debris across its maternity ward.
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American hospitalised in Phuket after sexual assault
New York Times, Published on 08/09/2016
» It was supposed to be a relaxing break at a friendly southern Thailand beach resort for Hannah Gavios, an adventurous 23-year-old New Yorker on a three-day leave from her job teaching English in Vietnam.
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Man to serve up to five years for attacking American
New York Times, Published on 29/10/2016
» MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A Thai man will serve a maximum of five years in prison after pleading guilty to obscene behaviour and causing serious injury to a New York tourist, who fell off a cliff in southern Thailand as she fled his initial attack, authorities said Friday.
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US aircraft carrier not yet near North Korea
New York Times, Published on 19/04/2017
» WASHINGTON - A week after the White House declared a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier was being re-routed from Singapore to the Sea of Japan, near North Korea, it still has not arrived there.
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The moon cloaks the sun, and a nation gapes in awe
New York Times, Published on 22/08/2017
» CHARLESTON, South Carolina -- The United States basked in the glory of a total eclipse Monday, as the moon’s shadow swept from the rocky beaches of Oregon to the marshes of South Carolina.
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Damp, dark and disarrayed, Florida tackles Irma’s aftermath
New York Times, Published on 12/09/2017
» Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma on Monday as a landscape of blacked-out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now-weakened storm kept sweeping northward.
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Coming home to a shipping container
Business, New York Times, Published on 07/10/2017
» Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the corrugated walls, and beyond that an expansive living room, kitchen and small bathroom. Several tall windows looked out on the Catskill Mountains, a vista that stretched for miles.
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