How The Times Is Counting Every Coronavirus Case in the Country
Date: 29 June 2020
By Sarah Bures
Sarah Bures
The effort began with one reporter’s spreadsheet, and expanded with contributions from dozens of people with varying skill sets across the newsroom.
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The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News
Date: 29 June 2020
By Kellen Browning and Jack Nicas
Kellen Browning
The Times said Apple News did not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.
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Don’t Cancel That Newspaper Subscription
Date: 29 June 2020
By Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl
News organizations make mistakes. But shunning them will only hasten the death of journalism itself.
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Iran Issues Death Sentence for Opposition Journalist
Date: 30 June 2020
By Elian Peltier
Elian Peltier
Ruhollah Zam once ran a popular news service that helped share information about the widespread protests in 2017. He had been exiled in France until October, when he traveled to Iraq and then disappeared.
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NASA Scientist, Detained in Turkey for Years, Returns to U.S.
Date: 30 June 2020
By Carlotta Gall
Carlotta Gall
Serkan Golge, an American caught up in increasingly fraught Turkish-U.S. relations, arrived with his family in Washington after nearly four years of imprisonment and house arrest.
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After Iranian Missile Facility Blows Up, Conspiracy Theories Abound in Tehran
Date: 29 June 2020
By David E. Sanger, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi
David Sanger
Satellite photographs show the explosion happened at a missile production facility. Iran said the episode was a gas explosion at a different military base.
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Swift Charges Against Atlanta Officers Met With Relief and Skepticism
Date: 30 June 2020
By Richard Fausset
Richard Fausset
When Paul L. Howard Jr., locked in a tight re-election bid for Fulton County district attorney, announced criminal charges in Rayshard Brooks’s death, some said he was tainted by politics.
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A Black Man Was Tortured and Killed in Denmark. The Police Insist It Wasn’t About Race.
Date: 30 June 2020
By Thomas Erdbrink
Thomas Erdbrink
One of the two white suspects has far-right ties. The prosecutor in the case called it “a personal relationship that has gone wrong.”
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Gunmen Wage Deadly Battle at Pakistan Stock Exchange
Date: 29 June 2020
By Salman Masood
Salman Masood
Police and paramilitary forces surrounded the exchange in Karachi during a firefight in which at least three security officers and four attackers were killed.
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Trump Shares Video of Armed White Couple Confronting Protesters
Date: 29 June 2020
By Annie Karni
Annie Karni
A day after sharing on Twitter a video with a supporter yelling “white power,” the president retweeted a tense episode in St. Louis.
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