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Visiting Tehran, Iraqi FM Fuad Hussein says there’s a ‘problem’ with the negotiating mechanism in Vienna, where US and Iranian officials only communicate through intermediaries

(NEW YORK) — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died.

When Didion started writing in 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn’t been there before. (Image credit: Kathy Willens/AP)

Move follows state attorney’s opinion that the Environmental Protection Ministry had full authority to act against the agreement

There’s a quote stamped on Jenell Theobald’s contact cards, which she hands out to new connections: “We are all unique, and have our own special place in the puzzle of the universe,” it says, a nugget of wisdom attributed to

They are at higher risk at becoming seriously ill from the virus, but they also don’t want to ‘stop doing the things that are most important.’

Actor addresses 2018 allegations at length for the first time; says relations were consensual but a mistake, and that he was ‘not clearheaded’ at the time

State follows several others in pulling money from ice cream firm’s parent company; move lauded by Israel and mainstream Jewish groups, poo-pooed by dovish activists

Omicron Drives U.S. Virus Cases Past Delta’s Peak  The New York Times ‘Enormous spread of omicron’ may bring 140M new COVID infections to US in the next two months, model predicts  USA TODAY Omicron live updates: Latest news on the COVID variant  New

The Food and Drug Administration authorization of Merck’s molnupiravir comes one day after the agency cleared a competing drug from Pfizer.