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Rescue teams are searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, after catastrophic flash floods swept through the Himalayan region. At least 270 people have died and some 910 people remain unaccounted.
Rescuers race to find survivors after Himalayan floods kill at least 270
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The floodwaters that killed more than 250 people in Nepal and China on Wednesday were probably unleashed by a landslide from a collapsing glacier — a harbinger of the dangers posed by melting ice in a warming world.
A collapsing glacier probably triggered the deadly floods in Nepal
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Analysis: Alaska has always had its own brand of politics and uses an all-party, ranked-choice voting system. That system has led to a race featuring two candidates with the same name — one of whom Republicans claim was planted by Democrats.
Analysis | Alaska’s weird (and important) Senate race
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Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who disappeared from public view for decades and found global recognition late in life through her polka-dot paintings and mirrored, Instagram-friendly “infinity rooms,” died Aug. 14 in Tokyo. She was 97. wapo.st/3SuQDNc
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Column by Philip Kennicott: Critics, and anyone else who cares about artistic freedom and free expression, will be forced to defend Kehinde Wiley’s work not because it is good, but because the attacks on it are baseless.
Column | Removal of a ‘woke’ painting signals a new line of attack on artists
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