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Thursday, October 14, 2021 | |
By Jeanna Smialek Consumer Price Index data from the Labor Department showed that prices kept climbing in September, as supply chain snarls and rising rents fueled rapid inflation. | | By Hiroko Tabuchi These secretive investment companies have pumped billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects, buying up offshore platforms, building new pipelines and extending lifelines to coal power plants. | | By Andrew Higgins A wide range of parties in the Czech Republic banded together despite their differences to oppose Andrej Babis, the country's populist prime minister. Opposition parties in Hungary are hoping to duplicate the feat. | | |
New York By Michael Wilson Katrina Brownlee was abused, shot and left for dead. Told she'd never walk again, she went on to have a 20-year career with the N.Y.P.D. | | Opinion By Theresa Rebeck A major American theater planned to produce nine plays by men and one by a woman this season. Why did it take a male playwright to change that when women have flagged such inequities for years? | | |
By The Associated Press At 90 years old, the actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space and cross the Kármán line. The "Star Trek" star traveled to space with three other passengers on a mission that lasted about 10 minutes. | | By The Associated Press President Biden said the Port of Los Angeles would move toward 24/7 operations, joining its counterpart in Long Beach, in an effort to curb product shortages. | | By Reuters The World Health Organization hopes that the new advisory group, which includes scientists from 26 countries, can revive its study of the pandemic's origins, after previous efforts became bogged down in a political rivalry between China and the United States. | | |
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