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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was among the guests at the NFL Hall of Fame ceremony for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones Saturday. Christie flew out to Canton, Ohio Friday for Jones’s induction ceremony into the hall, according to the Associated Press.

Sen. Corey Booker (D-N.J.) recounted his hug with Sen. MORE (I-Vt.) hugged McCain. "Long story short," Booker said, "he comes to the senate floor to do what I don't want him to do. In fact, he puts the vote in to move the bill that I've been fighting to the floor. And then, the vote's over. We line up.

SEOUL, South Korea — Divorced and out of money, Kwon Chol-nam fled North Korea for China in 2014 by wading across a river border at night and then crawling over a barbed-wire fence. After a perilous trek that included walking through a jungle in Laos, he reached Thailand, where he was allowed to fly to South Korea to start a new life. After all that trouble and danger, Mr. Kwon now wants South Korea to allow him to return home to the North. “You have to ride a horse to know whether it’s the right mount for you,” Mr. Kwon said in an interview in Seoul.

SEOUL, South Korea — Divorced and out of money, Kwon Chol-nam fled North Korea for China in 2014 by wading across a river border at night and then crawling over a barbed-wire fence. After a perilous trek that included walking through a jungle in Laos, he reached Thailand, where he was allowed to fly to South Korea to start a new life. After all that trouble and danger, Mr. Kwon now wants South Korea to allow him to return home to the North. “You have to ride a horse to know whether it’s the right mount for you,” Mr. Kwon said in an interview in Seoul.

SAN JUAN, P.R. — Two young graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did the unthinkable last summer: They quit enviable jobs in New York and moved back to beleaguered Puerto Rico, bringing their plan for a start-up with them. “People were like: ‘Are you crazy? Why would you ever do that?

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Right now, as you are reading this, Samuel L. Jackson is on a yacht in the Mediterranean, perhaps standing on the fantail, whacking golf balls into the deep, deep blue. “The golf balls are fish food, so they’re environmentally correct,” he said a few weeks ago, reassuringly. “And they fly great.” Each year, Mr.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela’s dissident attorney general sped away from her headquarters on a motorbike on Saturday as she was being ousted by the country’s new all-powerful assembly, which moved toward a swift consolidation of its power. “We have asked that she not only be suspended, but removed from her position,” Diosdado Cabello, a powerful member of the assembly, said of the dismissed official, Luisa Ortega. “It was approved unanimously.” Standing before the group, called the Constituent Assembly, Mr.

Scientists for the first time have successfully edited genes in human embryos to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation, producing apparently healthy embryos, according to a study published on Wednesday. The research marks a major milestone and, while a long way from clinical use, it raises the prospect that gene editing may one day protect babies from a variety of hereditary conditions. But the achievement is also an example of human genetic engineering, once feared and unthinkable, and is sure to renew ethical concerns that some might try to design babies with certain traits, l

Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?