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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
When Republicans tried to repeal a law voters passed to ban gerrymandering, Utah’s women spoke up. The state's male politicians have punished them, but the women so far are unbowed. nyti.ms/3UTwX6r
Five conservatively dressed women sit for a portrait in front of paintings. Photo by Kim Raff for The New York Times
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal agents may have broken state laws as part of an effort to find noncitizens on voter rolls, a whistle-blower said.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Why were so many powerful people in America, a country whose civic culture is steeped in resistance to tyranny, so willing to abase themselves and their institutions?” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They?
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2026
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” won the Emmy for outstanding variety series after ending its 11-year-run in May. nyti.ms/4ywmEDM
Stephen Colbert stands on the Emmys stage with an award in his hand. A headline reads: "‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Goes Out With an Emmy Win." Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com We’re still living in the 1980s, “trapped in the invisible architecture built by a clutch of executives, politicians and conservative advocacy groups (that was later abetted by a generation of business-friendly Democrats),” Jonathan Kaufman writes.
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Opinion | The Decade That Ruined Everything
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here are our two 50501 Rising Star candidates (Jeromie Whalen for Congress in MA-1 & Patrick Roath for Congress in MA-8) for the State Primary Elections in Massachusetts today! There's also plenty of other races to watch, so make sure to vote!
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Massachusetts Primary Rising Stars:
Jeromie Whalen for MA-1
& Patrick Roath for MA-8

No Kings!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “With A.I. capabilities advancing at extraordinary speed and behaving in ways we often can’t anticipate, we cannot afford to wait for disaster to tell us which signals mattered,” Jen Easterly writes. “Our failure of imagination has to end here.”
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Opinion | We Know the Risks of A.I. We Need to Act.
A.I. could turn one of our country’s worst habits into a national security crisis.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
Three Senate Democrats sent a letter on Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security, asking for more information about the department’s purchase of 10 used jets for $464 million. The New York Times reported earlier this month that the department has barely used its new fleet.
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Democratic Senators Ask Homeland Security for Details About Idled Planes
The request follows a New York Times story, which revealed that Homeland Security had spent $464 million on used jets that rarely fly.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “No Lafayette will appear to us today, but the story of his last service to America still offers timely reminders to its citizens,” Ryan Cole writes. “Our rights must be exercised lest they atrophy.”
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Opinion | Men Wept. Women Fainted. What Lafayette’s Tour of America Tells Us About Ourselves.
The Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States in 1824. His tour carries key lessons for a country still fighting over how to remember its past.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
From @theathletic.com: There were heartwarming scenes at a one-star hotel high in the French Pyrenees as shivering WorldTour cyclists were saved from an extreme hailstorm. "We simply opened the doors wide so that everyone could take cover."
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‘It’s an open bar’: How a one-star hotel sheltered the Vuelta a Espana peloton from extreme hailstorm
There were heartwarming scenes in the Pyrenees on Monday afternoon as shivering WorldTour cyclists were saved from the elements by a hotel
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Because the symptoms of postpartum psychosis wax and wane, mothers can seem to be coping when, in fact, they are drowning,” Michelle Oberman writes. “This on-and-off psychosis also makes it difficult for women who kill their children to qualify for the insanity defense.”
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Opinion | Lindsay Clancy Deserves Mercy, Not Life in Prison
It is too hard for women suffering from postpartum mental illness to prove the insanity defense.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
A long-shot candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator in Alaska will be on the ballot in November. That could be a problem for the GOP.
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In Headache for Republicans, Second Dan Sullivan Advances in Alaska Senate Race
A long-shot candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator will be on the ballot in November. That could be a problem for the G.O.P.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Meta reached a landmark settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 states, D.C. and U.S. territories and has to make major changes to its products over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms. nyti.ms/4gwjgkP
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Breaking News: The FDA approved a first-of-its-kind pill that could substantially extend the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer.
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F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer
In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Powerful software that Ukraine has developed, called Delta, pulls streams of battlefield intelligence into a single platform that helps detect targets. The technology is credited with helping to cut Russian advances to a near standstill.
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Ukraine’s Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army
The Delta system pulls together battlefield data to identify targets, creating a miles-wide “kill zone.” The technology is credited with helping to cut Russian advances to a near standstill.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Bill Gates is loudly warning that A.I. poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that addressing the risks should be “the world’s top priority.” In an interview with The New York Times, Gates said the tech industry was knowingly downplaying those threats. nyti.ms/4qApGnH
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1DegreeOutside @1degreeoutside.com · 13/08/2026
Isolated t'storm Friday, Saturday stunner & PM/night rain likely Sunday. All the weekend details in Insights: 1do.us/weekendinsights
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Hilltown Families @hilltownfamilies.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
💛 Will Bike 4 Food is September 20 in Hatfield. Routes from 4 to 100 miles for every ability, plus virtual. Raises funds for nutritious food across four Western Mass counties. After Party at the finish. Sign up! #Cycling #HungerAction #WesternMass
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Will Bike 4 Food - Hilltown Families
Pedal for a purpose at Will Bike 4 Food on Sunday, September 20, 2026, beginning at the Lions Club Pavilion in Hatfield. Cyclists of…
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Whalen for Congress @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People from the Berkshires to Belchertown to West Brookfield are joining together to support Jeromie because we love this district enough to vote and fight for it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2026
In Opinion “Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are branded threats to national health and unity,” our columnist M. Gessen writes. “The Trump administration has fixated on two groups most of all — immigrants and trans people — in just this way.”
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/08/2026
Donald Trump launched a $100,000 monthly subscription service for early access to his posts. trib.al/WhTXnzB
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Trump Sued for Truth Social Scheme to Manipulate Markets
Donald Trump launched a $100,000 monthly subscription service for early access to his posts.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/08/2026
Trump’s corrupt scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First and Fifth amendments to the Constitution. We're taking him to court.
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Lawsuit: Early access fee for Trump Truth Social posts unconstitutional
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:New York, Aug. 12, 2026 — President Donald Trump’s scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First ...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 13/08/2026
Commentary: Dishonor should be disqualifying in politics. It is not. Scandalous behavior or public corruption should end political careers. They do not. Ohio politicians proved the point last week ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/12/a...
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America's sunk so low, dishonor and disgrace don't end political careers. Ohio politicians prove it. • Ohio Capital Journal
Dishonor should be disqualifying in politics. It is not. Scandalous behavior or public corruption should end political careers. They do not. Ohio politicians proved the point last week.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13/08/2026
A Fort Worth activist who cursed out the Republican-majority Tarrant County Commissioners Court over a plan to gut polling sites was arrested in the middle of the night.
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GOP-led court orders activist's arrest after profane rebuke of voting curbs
A Fort Worth activist who cursed out the Republican-majority Tarrant County Commissioners Court over a plan to gut polling sites was arrested in the middle of the night.Efrin "EJ" Carrion, a Fort Worth activist and host of the 817 Podcast, was booked into Tarrant County Jail early Wednesday on a cha...
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NPR @npr.org · 13/08/2026
Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, n.pr/3TUn3Rv
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/08/2026
"As of mid-May, the administration had detained an estimated 400,000 people since the beginning of the term. Almost 66,000 are being detained right now. In conditions that, beyond putting their lives at risk, are undeniably brutal and cruel." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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Editor's Notes: Los Desaparecidos de ICE
Trump's mass deportation campaign will produce more atrocities than the Argentinian military junta did.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2026
The first frame of the video Carolina Molina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera. Molina’s video from a Virginia encounter has deepened conversations about the aggressiveness of ICE enforcement.
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It ‘felt like a Renée Good situation,’ U.S. citizen says after ICE encounter
Video from the Virginia incident, which shows an agent with a gun, has reignited conversations about the aggressiveness of ICE enforcement.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Even if the Department of Justice is done with the Epstein files, the public is not done with justice,” Rachel Louise Snyder writes in a guest essay.
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Opinion | I Visited the Evidence of Epstein’s Crimes
We need to hold accountable the web of accomplices who enabled his crimes.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/07/2026
The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is confronting how to chart its path forward. After a string of election victories in the city, the organization is eager to tax the rich and push condemning Israel’s military actions through legislation.
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Democratic Socialists Are Winning Big. Now They Want Action.
The Democratic Socialists of America, after a string of election victories in New York, is eager to tax the rich and enact anti-Israel policies.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Without saying one word about modern politics, Christopher Nolan has rebuked the spirit of the age. His retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ is an admonition: Moral transgressions always carry a consequence,” our columnist David French writes.
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Opinion | Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse
This “Odyssey” takes us somewhere we didn’t know we were going.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/07/2026
Listen to “The Headlines,” which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes.
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U.S. Pauses Iran Strikes Amid Growing Risks, and Measles Cases Hit a New Record
Plus, the soaring costs of President Trump’s new Air Force One.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026
An investigation by The New York Times found that President Trump’s push to quickly get a new Air Force One led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features that potentially left the president and others who travel with him vulnerable. Our reporter Eric Lipton explains. nyti.ms/4pF8OM1
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026
Earlier this week, the Pentagon had reported on its website that 18 American service members had been killed during the war in Iran, but that number was later lowered to 14. The change in the count has prompted scrutiny over the Defense Department’s accounting and reporting practices.
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Military Families Express Outrage After Pentagon Lowers Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War
The change in the number to 14 from 18 this week has prompted scrutiny over the Defense Department’s accounting and reporting practices.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026
The 98 illnesses have been reported in 17 states, the FDA said. The cases of salmonella were reported starting on Nov. 21, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
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1.6 Million Egg Cartons Are Recalled Over Salmonella Risk
The voluntary recall included eggs produced in Texas and sold under several brand names in six states, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Come to Boston, we're peaceful and flexible! 🕊️ 🧘🏻‍♀️
Map and chart of gun ownership and yoga interest showing Massachusetts having low gun ownership and high yoga interest.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We are a nation that has moved at speed from the realm of fact colored by opinions to a kingdom of delusion infested with fear,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Vice President JD Vance’s recent interview with Joe Rogan.
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Opinion | Call the Veep, Agent Mulder!
Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2026
In Opinion “The president’s attempt to drum up a third Red Scare is certain to fail,” writes Jamelle Bouie. “If it matters — if it is interesting — it is only because it gives us a glimpse into the stunted imagination of a man who seems to value only the worst this country has to offer.”
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Opinion | Trump’s New Insult Won’t Save Republicans
The president’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2026
Emergency officials in Kentucky were digging through the damage after reported tornadoes as a sprawling weather system delivered a violent combination of heavy rain, flash flooding and strong winds all the way to New England.
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Tornadoes Are Reported in Kentucky as Storms Sweep Across the U.S.
Storms set off tornado warnings all the way to New York on Tuesday. Forecasters also warned of flash flooding.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2026
A 700-acre fire was spreading on Tuesday afternoon in the parched hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, according to fire officials.
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Bay Area Wildfire Prompts Evacuation Orders for Thousands of Residents
A fire in the Pleasanton, Calif., area was spreading quickly across dry hillsides and threatening neighborhoods.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Democracy is not a sheltered structure we live inside,” the editorial board writes. “It is a habit we must practice — or lose.”
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Opinion | Five Questions That Will Determine America’s Next 50 Years
The truth worth celebrating this summer is that our country is still being made.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “You want security, health care and the American dream? Look to Scandinavia,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | What We Should Learn From Nordic Happiness
Scandinavia is the land of five-week vacations, virtually free university, one-year parental leaves, easy child care — and very happy citizens.
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Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#EpsteinClass #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrials #Republican
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Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
FWIW, if you’re holding high level emergency strategy meetings on how to “spin” the Epstein files, 3 things quickly become clear to everyone: 1) you are in the Epstein files. Significantly. 2) you are a very bad actor in Epstein’s heinous criminal activities. 3) you can’t spin, so you COVER-UP
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Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I urge ALL AMERICANS to keep their guard up and be ready to fight. The mid-terms are NOT guaranteed. We have to fight voter suppression, gerrymandering intimidation, false claims, DOJ interference, and more. Check your registrations BEFORE voting. Spread the word.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We don’t agree on everything,” write Senators Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren, “but here’s one thing we do agree on: Congress must act now to save Social Security for generations of Americans to come.”
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Opinion | Social Security Is Running Out of Money, Fast
To save the program, we need to eliminate the payroll tax cap.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026
Jeffrey Epstein lived in a tight-knit community in New York among relatives and classmates and teachers and neighbors. We spoke to those who knew him as a boy about the sexual predator he came to be.
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Searching for Clues in Jeffrey Epstein’s Boyhood
“Jeff” grew up in an insular world, kept company with a few brainy boys and fixated on girls. Was a monster hiding in plain sight?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/06/2026
News Analysis: President Trump billed the U.S. war on Iran as an unprecedented step toward transforming the Middle East. But neither the war nor the recent deal terminated the main threats emanating from Iran, many analysts said.
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Neither the War Nor Trump’s Deal Terminated the Main Threats in Iran, Analysts Say
Neither the war nor the agreement terminated the main threats emanating from Iran, many analysts said.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2026
A surge in pedestrian deaths in the U.S. has baffled researchers for years. A New York Times analysis estimates that about 10% of the increase in pedestrian fatalities in recent years was caused by the growth in vehicle sizes since 2002. Here’s why.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/06/2026
The war against Iran lasted just over 15 weeks before a preliminary U.S.-Iranian peace deal was reached this week. But the human and economic toll mounted rapidly, with consequences far beyond the region.
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The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars
The human toll and economic costs mounted rapidly after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.
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