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Geena Rocero can stop traffic. This is more than a metaphor. On a recent Saturday in Manhattan, she confidently stomped into West 34th Street, giving a shrug and a wave to a braking car before getting into a Lyft. “I’ve counted: I can stop three lanes,” she said. “Not four.”…

Like most Britons, many Danes have known only one queen throughout their lifetime — one who was extremely popular, and known for her sense of responsibility, propriety and commitment to her duties. On Sunday, the Danish queen, Margrethe, said she would step down this month. That paves for the way…

Milan Kundera, a Communist Party outcast who became a global literary star with mordant, sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in the workers’ paradise of his native Czechoslovakia, died on Tuesday in Paris at age 94. A spokeswoman for Gallimard, Mr. Kundera’s publisher in France, said…