America’s bird-flu luck has officially run out
Plus: The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

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Bird flu has spread so widely that it was always going to make someone seriously sick.

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A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the backlash.

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The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

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America is suddenly getting healthier. No one knows why.

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