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Chris Beekman, whose company sells the dietary supplement Opiate Detox Pro, does not understand what all the fuss is about. “If it works, it works,” Mr. Beekman, the owner of NutraCore Health Products, said in an interview. “If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.” His customers, addicts trying to shake a dependence on opioids, can always get their money back, he said. Opiate Detox Pro’s label says, “Opioid addiction ease,” and the company’s website claims, “Our ingredients are the most effective on the market for treating withdrawal symptoms.” Mr.

For two years, the Yankees moved deftly through an uncharacteristic rebuilding process, establishing a growing nucleus of inexpensive and talented young players that seemed to defy the team’s long-established identity as one of the biggest spenders in baseball. But always lurking below the surface was the signature desire to bust open the vault and grab the best, and most expensive, player available.

PARIS — A year ago, no one would have envisioned President Emmanuel Macron of France as the public face of Western diplomacy in the Middle East. But that is not the case anymore. President Trump’s decision this past week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, his anti-Muslim tweets and his State Department staffing cuts have signaled to many a retreat of American diplomacy. That has made room for those who want to expand their presence on the world stage, Mr. Macron among them.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Tunggal Pawestri says she’ll never forget being groped on a public bus while traveling to her high school in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, when she was 14. While Ms. Tunggal had become used to enduring daily harassment on her way to and from classes — mostly catcalls and sexually suggestive looks and comments — when a man suddenly began gyrating against her from behind, she said, “I froze.” “I didn’t know what to do — I didn’t even know that I should have screamed,” said Ms.

OJAI, Calif. — Ernest Niglio traded Brooklyn 20 years ago for healthy, spiritual living in this laid-back, picturesque town. His daughters could attend a vegetarian elementary school founded by a renowned Indian guru. He could practice meditation and the family could enjoy both the mountains and the ocean nearby. On Friday, Mr. Niglio, an owner of Rainbow Bridge, a popular organic grocery store downtown, was cruising the aisles in a protective mask. “Breathing smoke like this makes my fight-or-flight syndrome kick in,” said Mr. Niglio, sounding like a New Yorker again.

Welcome to the weekend. Keep your PJ’s on a little longer. Put on some holiday music, sink into a comfortable chair and give yourself the gift of reading because we have some great stories for you! Bela Raphael Simons was among the first in a wave of European immigrants to come to America, escaping the aftermath of World War II, the greatest refugee crisis in the last century. At the time, more than two-thirds of Americans objected to allowing Jews and other Europeans into the United States.

LOS ANGELES — While they tell tales of Death Stars and daddy issues, the “Star Wars” movies are also stories about duality: how goodness and evil can coexist — on the same planet or inside the same person — and what happens when they collide on an intergalactic scale. These themes are revisited once again in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the eighth episode in the science-fiction saga that George Lucas started in 1977. “The Last Jedi,” which opens on Dec.

LOS ANGELES — While they tell tales of Death Stars and daddy issues, the “Star Wars” movies are also stories about duality: how goodness and evil can coexist — on the same planet or inside the same person — and what happens when they collide on an intergalactic scale. These themes are revisited once again in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the eighth episode in the science-fiction saga that George Lucas started in 1977. “The Last Jedi,” which opens on Dec.

In most places, a dollar is a dollar. But in the tax code envisioned by Republicans, the amount you make may be less important than how you make it. Consider two chefs working side by side for the same catering company, doing the same job, for the same hours and the same money.

WASHINGTON — As another fevered push to open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration collapsed on the Senate floor in December 2005, Ted Stevens, then the powerful and wily Republican senator from Alaska, declared it “the saddest day of my life.” At that moment, it looked as though the decades-long fight over drilling in 1.5 million acres of the remote refuge could finally be at