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Times editors have handpicked 12 stories for you to enjoy. Welcome to The Weekender.
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Three friends met as boys in western Ukraine. When Russia invaded, they enlisted in the same unit. There was comfort, and dread, in serving together.
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A huge religious carnival shows that India remains a country of diverse political and social beliefs, despite the right-wing national government’s dominance.
Dr. Michael R. Hayden has spent more than a decade patiently searching for the looted silver Judaica stolen from his grandparents, who were killed by the Nazis.
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Kim Kardashian’s Skims hooks up with Swarovski to bedazzle the body.
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New Zealand’s curling team wanted to train with the “big boys” in Canada, and a group of enthusiastic seniors has provided housing, a cheering section and lots of advice.
Investigators say they have figured out how bronze statues from a shrine built 2,000 years ago in Asia Minor to venerate the emperors of Rome ended up in museums around the world.
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When Mr. Lee, a TikTok food reviewer with 14 million followers, visited Atlanta, his reviews gave voice to influenzas that some have about parts of the city’s dining culture.
The festival of the intricately crafted textiles of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago off Scotland’s coast, draws hundreds of knitters from around the world for all things wool.
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More than 37,000 New Yorkers told us where their neighborhoods start and end. We mapped them all.
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What do we mourn when we mourn a TV companion?
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The evolution of Durham from a faded tobacco town to a diverse cultural and culinary destination has been years in the making.
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Our experts have curated the best gifts to help you check everyone off your list.
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Thanks for reading.
This edition of The Weekender was edited by Jonathan Wolfe.
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