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China Is Buying Appliances and iPhones. What Happens When the Subsidies Stop?

Shoppers are taking advantage of a $42 billion government trade-in program aimed at boosting spending. But in recent weeks, some cities have started to cut back on the subsidies.

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A shopping area in Beijing. Confronting a trade war with the United States, China’s government has poured $42 billion this year into a consumer trade-in program.

Samuel Abt, Tour de France Writer for 30 Years, Dies at 91

He wrote about the elite cycling race for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. He said he was smitten by the Tour from the first day.

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Samuel Abt in 2001. An editor for several newspapers before joining The New York Times, he went to Paris to work for The International Herald Tribune. There that he discovered the beauty of bicycle racing,

Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions Recorded With Autopen

Donald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name.

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Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets of vindictive criminal investigations by his successor.

Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions

The former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.

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Toward the end of his presidency, Joseph R. Biden Jr. granted large batch commutations to reduce the sentences of three categories of federal convictions.

South African President Opens Corruption Inquiry of Police Leader

The police minister was suspended amid allegations that he had protected figures with ties to a criminal syndicate, adding pressure on the country’s embattled government.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who has been facing turmoil from within his coalition government, announced on Sunday that he was forming a commission to investigate allegations against Senzo Mchunu, the country’s police minister.

How Trump’s Latest Tariff Threat Risks Deeper Damage to Europe’s Economy

Economists had already downgraded growth for the European Union, and the new duties would hit industries there especially hard. Companies are looking for ways to blunt the impact.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said on Sunday that European Union officials had decided to hold off on imposing any countermeasures to the latest U.S. tariff threats.

The Royal Box: Who’s in Wimbledon’s Most Exclusive Seats?

The event’s most coveted seats are available only through invitation, reserved for celebrities and dignitaries. Here’s a look at who’s sitting in them.

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Queen Camilla, seated bottom center, watched the Wimbledon Tennis Championships from the Royal Box on Centre Court on Wednesday, accompanied by actor Hugh Grant, to her left, during the tenth day of the tournament in London.

Heavy Rain Pounds Central Texas, Forcing a Halt to Search Efforts

Flood warnings were in effect in several areas, including ones that were devastated by the July 4 floods. By the afternoon, the rain had eased up in some parts, and some rescuers resumed their work.

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Rescuers on Sunday visited a memorial for those killed in flash flooding in Central Texas last week.

Bob Geldof Reflects on Live Aid, 40 Years Later

The rock star-turned-activist reflects on the 1985 benefit concert and why it could not happen now.

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The singer and activist Bob Geldof at home in London. The Live Aid shows were seen by about 1.5 billion people in more than 150 countries and would go on to raise more than $140 million.
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