5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

Field: Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott, piano (Deutsche Grammophon) The Irish composer John Field (1782-1837) is commonly said to have invented the nocturne as a piece for piano, passing the form along for his younger contemporary Frédéric Chopin to perfect. If sometimes forgotten, Field’s contributions have hardly escaped notice. Liszt …

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Benjamin Black Weighs Shift in U.S.A.I.D. Funding

Benjamin Black Weighs Shift in U.S.A.I.D. Funding

At the United States Agency for International Development, thousands of workers have been fired or put on administrative leave and many of its projects addressing global issues like health, hunger and education have been halted. Now, a former Goldman Sachs analyst and son of a private equity billionaire has ambitions …

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Gaza Truce Imperiled as Netanyahu and Hamas Send Dueling Warnings

Gaza Truce Imperiled as Netanyahu and Hamas Send Dueling Warnings

The future of the cease-fire in Gaza and the territory’s long-term fate hung in the balance on Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned Hamas that if the scheduled release of hostages did not take place on Saturday, the truce would end and Israeli troops would resume “intense …

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Hamas Makes Gaunt Israeli Hostages Thank Captors Before Release

Hamas Makes Gaunt Israeli Hostages Thank Captors Before Release

Hamas released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for 183 Palestinians jailed by Israel, in a staged handover where rifle-toting Hamas fighters prodded their gaunt captives to give short speeches, effectively at gunpoint, thanking the militants who had held them captive for 16 months. The events made an already …

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Complicates Hoped-for Saudi-Israeli Deal

Trump’s Gaza Plan Complicates Hoped-for Saudi-Israeli Deal

President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term. Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just …

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Complicates Hoped-for Saudi-Israeli Deal

Trump’s Gaza Plan Complicates Hoped-for Saudi-Israeli Deal

President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term. Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just …

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest

Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest

President Trump took the world aback with his declaration that the United States was going to “own” Gaza and move out the Palestinians there to build “the Riviera of the Middle East.” As unrealistic and bizarre as it may seem, Mr. Trump was pointing to a serious challenge: the future …

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Inside Trump’s Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza

Inside Trump’s Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza

When President Trump announced his proposal for the United States to take ownership of Gaza on Tuesday, he shocked even senior members of his own White House and government. While his announcement looked formal and thought-out — he read the plan from a sheet of paper — his administration had …

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Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move

Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move

Follow reactions to President Trump’s Gaza proposal. President Trump declared on Tuesday that the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced in years. Hosting Prime Minister …

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