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Oldest Recording of Louisiana’s Vanishing Creole Language Is Published (Gift Article)

The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a language rooted in the state’s history of slavery and French colonialism.

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Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Dies (Gift Article)

The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

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Opinion | Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? (Gift Article)

American capitalism may never be the same again.

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Opinion | I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s My Side of the Story. (Gift Article)

I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s my side of the story.

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Bloomberg technologyculture
The Woman Breathing Life Into Next Generation Home-Help Robots

Dreame’s Huo is working on artificial intelligence algorithms and humanoid machines to handle cleaning, washing and other chores.

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NRC cultureworldpolitics
Rekenkamer: het gaat slecht met het veen, terwijl dat Nederland wapent tegen klimaatverandering en biodiversiteit bevordert

Grondsoort: Het natuurveen in Nederland verkeert in een deplorabele staat, zo rapporteert de Algemene Rekenkamer: slechts in 18 van de 173 onderzochte gebieden gaat het wel goed. Terwijl: „Veen voorko...

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The Five-Borough Route: The Beating Heart of the NYC Marathon (Gift Article)

When the event’s five co-founders first proposed moving it out of Central Park, it seemed impossible. Much has changed in the sport and the city since that 1976 race.

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The Chicken Dinner, Both Humble and Noble (Gift Article)
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Three Stone Age Caves Reveal Continual Cannibalism (Gift Article)

A tour of the three caves in southern Spain suggests that people in the area cannibalized one another as funerary practice over many generations.

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NRC worldopinionculture
Een unicum: zeven agenten voor de strafrechter wegens dodelijke arrestatie man in Rotterdam

Politiegeweld: De zaak uit 2023 draait om een man die zich verzette tegen zijn aanhouding. Het is een unieke strafzaak: nooit eerder werden zoveel politiemensen vervolgd wegens het onjuist aanwenden v...

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New York Times sportsculture
A Clash Over Trans Women in Sports Erupts at a Pro Soccer Game (Gift Article)

For protesters seeking a ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports, it made sense to protest near fans of the Portland Thorns, who are known for progressive politics.

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The Atlantic cultureentertainment
The Cat Who Saved Me

I will never owe another cat the debt that I owe her.

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The Atlantic culture
The Long, Weird Tale of Comet Ping Pong

Whatever happened to the D.C. pizza place that became a target for the internet’s darkest obsessives?

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He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos.

The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch

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The Times (UK) culture
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

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Bodacious A.I. Bots Are Stealing Jokes From Young Female Comedians (Gift Article)

Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience.

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Mike Beigel, Whose Devices Shaped the Sound of the 70s, Has Died (Gift Article)

Have a listen. He’s responsible for a funky texture in the 1970s that defined hit songs by Stevie Wonder, the Grateful Dead and many others.

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Ernie Johnson, the best to sit in a sports studio, made ‘Inside the NBA’ must-see TV (Gift Article)

For more than three decades, Johnson helped turn "Inside the NBA" into a 21-time Sports Emmy Award winner.

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Column | Vogels kijken verrijkt je wereld, probeer het eens zelf

Wie vogels gaat kijken moet in de eerste plaats leren luisteren. Want als je alleen maar met je ogen vogelt, dan vind je vrijwel niets.

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The Atlantic mediaculture
The Epstein-Pizzagate Connection

The seminal conspiracy theory of the Trump era gets a facelift 10 years later.

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The Atlantic politicsculture
Why Wouldn’t Google Tell Me Who Won the 2020 Election?

The world’s most popular AI tool dodged a consequential question.

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Linda McMahon Spends $43,000 on Furniture as She Looks to Close Education Department (Gift Article)

The education secretary says her old furniture “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated” into new office space.

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Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies (Gift Article)

She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.

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At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Visitors Enjoy the Music (Gift Article)

The program “Met Live Arts” aims to create immersive experiences with notable performers in surprising museum locations.

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Why Is Every Book ‘Gothic’ Now? (Gift Article)

Candlelit corridors, eerie old portraits and other tropes aren’t exclusive to horror and romance this year — they’re everywhere.

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Mosquito Lasers (Gift Article)

China has come up with an innovative way to kill the insects.

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Medium culturelegalpolitics
‘The Ghost of Oyuki’ and Her Twin

‘Hangonkō no Zu' and other Ghost Paintings by Ōkyo Maruyama templated the genre and defined ghosts in Japan…

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The Atlantic cultureentertainment
What Horror Films Have to Say About God

Scary movies may appear irreverent or profane—but many of them are deeply interested in theological questions.

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Medium culturehealth
Scared on Purpose: Why Horror Movies May Calm an Anxious Mind

New research says a good fright can give worriers something they rarely get: a fear they can switch off.

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The Atlantic opinionpoliticsculture
Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions

Sorry!

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The Rise of American Chenin Blanc (Gift Article)

More producers, especially in California, are making excellent wines as the audience gets to know this versatile white grape. Here are 10 bottles to explore.

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How the Japanese Spy Drama ‘Vivant’ Became The Target of China’s Anger (Gift Article)

“Vivant,” a Japanese thriller that features Chinese spies, has drawn intense criticism from Beijing. Its creators defend the show, saying it is “completely fictional.”

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Dementia Comes in Many Forms. Alzheimer’s Is Just One. (Gift Article)

Here’s what to know about the other main types and how they affect the brain.

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NRC cultureworldopinion
De ‘super-El Niño’ is begonnen. Hoe erg kan het worden?

Klimaat: El Niño, het weerfenomeen dat het wereldwijde klimaat ontregelt, is dit jaar sterker dan ooit. Dat gaat leiden tot droogte én zware regenval. Waar zijn de grootste extremen te verwachten?

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Cecily Gemmell Has Died. She Was Churchill’s Last Surviving Secretary. (Gift Article)

Starting with the British leader at age 18, she traveled the world with him. “I was terrified of him,” she later recalled.

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Bloomberg culturetechnologyopinion
Trying Not to Sound Like AI Is Changing How We Write

As AI transforms writing and detectors like Pangram police what counts as machine-generated, authors and students are reshaping prose to prove they’re human.

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The Times (UK) businesspoliticsculture
St Andrews bans rector for seven years over bullying claims

Stella Maris has been told to stay away from the university’s campus after an investigation found her behaviour was ‘unprofessional and aggressive’

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sugar? (Gift Article)

This quiz is our treat.

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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed (Published 2022)
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We Know the Pledge. Its Author, Maybe Not. (Published 2022)
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New York Times sportsculture
‘I never thought you’d do it to me’: Inside Troy Aikman and Joe Buck’s ESPN unraveling (Gift Article)

The relationship between the longtime NFL TV partners is ruptured. How did it get to this point and where do things go from here?

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Medium culturebusinessscience
The Woes of Boeing: Anatomy of an Industrial Atrophy and the Path Forward

Is Boeing’s plight a metaphor for the broader meltdown of America?

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Natalie Nakase’s Asian American roots help inspire her community on and off the court (Gift Article)

“She’s inspiring this next generation of women, of any ethnicity, to say, hey, why not?" Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

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Trump is nooit een goede bondgenoot geweest, daar komen de Russen ook nog wel achter, zegt politicoloog Krastev

Ivan Krastev | politicoloog: Nu de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump meer kiest voor Rusland, breekt niet alleen voor Oekraïne, maar ook voor de Europeanen een bijzonder zware periode aan, zegt polit...

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Opinion | You Never Forget the Password to Your DVD Player (Gift Article)

I like that our DVD player is neither smart nor intelligent. You put in the disc, and the movie appears.

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Conservation Efforts for Caucasian Leopards Show Promise (Gift Article)

In Armenia, a three-legged Caucasian leopard’s astonishing hike signals that conservation efforts for the endangered animal may be working.

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Medium culture
I returned to my Forest Teachers to begin where i left off.

True art always appears where we dont’t expect it , where nobody thinks of it or utters its name. Art detests being recognised and greeted…

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Trump Rally Canceled Kansas Iowa
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The Atlantic culture
The Rise of the Sexy-Cozy Autumn Read

It’s spooky season. Time to read … romance?

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Medium culture
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother — Mahershala Ali impresses in a moralistic revenge thriller

A devoutly religious Islamic hitman embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children after his wife dies.

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