This ad depicts a true story. It begins: A young man walks around his car, which is up on a jack. He says in voice-over: “I got some Oxy after I hurt my neck. First I took them to feel better. Then I kept taking them. I didn’t know they’d be this addictive. I didn’t […]
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving swiftly to ensure that China is keeping its promises to protect American intellectual property, ratcheting up searches for counterfeit goods at ports and increasing pressure on e-commerce companies like Amazon to halt online sales of Chinese knockoffs. The administration’s effort, unveiled on Friday, included a Department of Homeland […]
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Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Judee Sill’s career had all the makings of a great singer-songwriter story. She was at the center of the 1970s folk-rock scene in California, alongside contemporaries like Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther. She became the first […]
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Juice WRLD, who rapped about his struggles with substance abuse and achieving meteoric success, died of an accidental drug overdose during a December drug raid at Midway Airport in Chicago, a medical examiner ruled on Wednesday. The rapper, whose real name was Jarad A. Higgins, died on Dec. 8 as a result of oxycodone and […]
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I came of age as a gay man in Greenwich Village during the late 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was raging. I watched my friends and lovers die left and right. At the peak of the crisis, I was attending a funeral every other weekend. Elected officials all across the country turned a blind eye […]
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