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Assad and Aides Are Wanted in France for Deadly Strike on Journalists

✇NYT | Top Stories
Marlise Simons
Judges issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six officials of his regime in Syria for an attack that killed two journalists, including Marie Colvin.

© Nicole Tung for The New York Times

A damaged plaque with an image of former President Bashar al-Assad of Syria outside an abandoned base in Quneitra Governorate, Syria, in August. Mr. al-Assad and his family fled to Russia last December.

Dan Rather Is Still Chasing the News

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Jacques Steinberg
He’s 93, and 20 years removed from signing off as a CBS anchor. But he’s still tapping out stories. “As Popeye used to say, I am what I am.”

© Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times

Dan Rather publishes a newsletter three times a week, and it has more than half a million subscribers.

Carol Saline, 86, Dies; Journalist With a Story to Tell, About Her Dying

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Jeré Longman
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said.

© David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer

The journalist and author Carol Saline in 2021. She said she wanted to die the way she had lived, “with a glass of champagne in one hand and a balloon in the other, singing off key, ‘Whoopee, this has been one hell of a great ride.’”
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