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Sports Briefing | Tennis: Serena Williams Cruises at Indian Wells

Serena Williams eased into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open, beating Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan, 6-2, 6-0, in 53 minutes.

School fund gap ‘costs 40 teachers’

Schools in the worst-funded areas of England get on average nearly £2m less - enough for 40 teachers - than those in the best-funded...

ArtsBeat: TV Review: HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ Finale Was Gut-Wrenching, Remarkable Television

HBO pioneered a new kind of appointment television on Sunday night. ...read more

ArtsBeat: TV Review: HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ Finale Was Gut-Wrenching, Remarkable Television

HBO pioneered a new kind of appointment television on Sunday night. ...read more

Sports Briefing | Winter Sports: Marcel Hirscher Builds Slalom Lead

Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway won a men's World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, while Hirscher recovered from a disappointing first run to place...

Sports Briefing | Sled-Dog Racing: Delicate Lead in Iditarod

Aliy Zirkle, a three-time runner-up, surged to the lead of the Iditarod, but the four-time champion Jeff King and Aaron Burmeister were about two...

Sports Briefing | Sled-Dog Racing: Delicate Lead in Iditarod

Aliy Zirkle, a three-time runner-up, surged to the lead of the Iditarod, but the four-time champion Jeff King and Aaron Burmeister were about two...

Sinosphere Blog: Q. and A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule

The highly influential American scholar of Chinese politics argues that his recent essay about the ‘‘endgame'' of the Communist Party envisions a protracted period...

On College Basketball: N.C.A.A. Tournament 2015: Villanova, Duke and Wisconsin Join Kentucky as No. 1 Seeds

The unbeaten Wildcats were named the top overall seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament. Virginia and Arizona were denied No. 1 seeds despite their strong...

Sinosphere Blog: A Rare Look Into One’s Life on File in China

There is a largely invisible mechanism of social control that governs hundreds of millions of urban residents in China: the dang'an, or personal file,...