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Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West

To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking with its agenda.

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Duisburg has long been at the heart of Germany’s steel industry. The site of one former steel plant is now an urban park.

Alex Polikoff, Who Won a Marathon Housing Segregation Case, Dies at 98

He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure the ruling was enforced.

Trump Era Tests Ties in German City Long Home to American Troops

While the German government frets over the sudden chill in relations with the United States, residents around American bases hope that ties are too tight to cut easily.

© Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

A U.S. military honor guard carrying American and German flags leading the procession at a memorial ceremony in May in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online

His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.

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John L. Young in 2013. “I’m a fierce opponent of government secrets of all kinds,” he said. “The scale is tipped so far the other way that I’m willing to stick my neck out and say there should be none.”
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