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 Hundreds of millions gathered Wednesday in homes and crowded festivals to mark the beginning of the Chinese lunar calendar new year, ringing in the Year of the Snake with feasts, dances, firework shows and traditional festivals.A dancer prepares...

 For nearly two years, as members of the storied Kennedy family reluctantly went public to warn that their brother and cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a dangerous man unfit for higher office, the one voice conspicuously missing...