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Rightist Intellectual Groups Rise in France (Gift Article)

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NFL Week 1 power rankings: Rams a superteam at the top, but lots of questions below them (Gift Article)

Sean McVay's Rams seem to have the makings of a Super Bowl champion. Can all of his stars shine in Los Angeles this season?

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New York Times sports
BASEBALL JOY AT HARVARD.; Matthews, the Colored Player, Is the Hero of the Hour and May Be Elected Captain. (Gift Article)
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The Atlantic politicsbusiness
Why Trump Has It Out for Canada

The superficial similarities between the U.S. and its closest friend are likely driving much of the president’s vitriol.

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New York Times sports
Kimi Räikkönen’s 11-year-old son joins Red Bull junior team (Gift Article)

Robin, who goes by the nickname 'Ace', will officially join the driver development program from 2027.

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Video Shows Grocery Store Manager Saving Toddler From Oncoming Traffic (Gift Article)

Luis Cruz dashed into a busy street in Puebla, Mexico, to pull a girl out of the path of an approaching S.U.V. Footage of the rescue has made him a local sensation.

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New York Times politics
Opinion | Trump Is Sabotaging the Midterms. The Supreme Court Must Stop Him. (Gift Article)

The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.

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NY Daily News sports
Yankees sending Jazz Chisholm Jr. to IL with sprained thumb: Who could replace him?

Imaging revealed that Jazz Chisholm Jr. suffered a sprained right thumb when he slid into second base during the eighth inning of Tuesday’s win over the Rockies.

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Defector sports
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector

Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...

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Bloomberg legalpolitics
DOJ Finds Berkeley Law School Admissions Racially Discriminatory

The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the University of California Berkeley School of Law discriminated against applicants based on race, the Trump administration’s latest crackdown on college...

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NRC cultureworld
Tentjes in bosjes en onder fly-overs van het spoor, een parallelle wereld in Amsterdam-Zuidoost: ‘Wij zijn Roma, maar we stelen niet’

Dakloze mensen: Het aantal daklozen in Nederland groeit de laatste jaren. En dat is misschien wel het meest zichtbaar in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, waar ruimte is in het vele groen en kampjes ontstaan die je...

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Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse (Gift Article)

Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, a Times investigation found. Family members have appealed to Elon Musk for help.

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Opinion | I Worked on Safety at OpenAI. The Fix Isn’t Hard. (Gift Article)

Even without government regulation, private companies can act on their own to address A.I. safety concerns.

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New York Times legalpolitics
Judge Lifts West Point’s Restrictions on Civilian Professors’ Speech (Gift Article)

A federal judge also said that the government had offered no real justification for limiting the ability of a professor who sued to express opinions in a Military Academy classroom.

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Big Ten expands live replay look-in to most home games, days after Michigan controversy (Gift Article)

The move comes after days of backlash toward the Big Ten for Michigan’s last-second Hail Mary win over Western Michigan.

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U.S. Designates Ecuador’s Los Tiguerones Gang as Terrorist Group (Gift Article)

The sanctions that will now be imposed on Los Tiguerones are an increasingly common U.S. tactic, though they unlikely to hurt the gang financially.

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New York Times politicsculture
Trump Administration Accuses Berkeley Law School of Racial Discrimination (Gift Article)

The Justice and Education Departments said the school had penalized white and Asian applicants, the latest in a series of investigations into admissions at elite universities.

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The Atlantic politics
How 9/11 Changed New York—And America

The attacks 25 years ago inspired a sense of national unity. It has since been shattered.

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The Atlantic politics
Does Trump Want Republicans to Win the Midterms?

Traditionally, candidates try to distance themselves from unpopular presidents. But this year, that’s impossible.

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Bloomberg businesstechnologyentertainment
Apple’s Priciest iPhone Duo Hits $3,199, Setting Industry Record

Apple Inc.’s breakthrough new iPhone Duo costs $3,199 for the highest-end configuration, setting a record for the price of a mass-market smartphone.

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New York Times politics
Thousands Gather for Funeral of Norway’s King Harald (Gift Article)

Royal families and heads of state, including President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, attended the funeral of King Harald V in Oslo.

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New York Times entertainmentpolitics
Justin Vivian Bond, Cabaret Chanteuse, Left New York for Paris. New York Called Her Back. (Gift Article)

Justin Vivian Bond, a cabaret performer and MacArthur “genius,” left New York to move to Paris. Now she’s back at Joe’s Pub to tell us all about it.

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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani will sit out of lineup for sixth time in 7 games: Source (Gift Article)

The Dodgers had said Ohtani was expected to be in the lineup Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds after receiving the day off on Tuesday.

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The Times (UK) worldpolitics
I’ll fund defence by… building council houses, Andy Burnham say

You could see the moment at PMQs when the cabinet fell in love with the prime minister, as he hailed ‘the Labour way’

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Medium technologyculture
Friend or Foe?

A new AI device touted as a stand-in for human friends expands our surveillance culture and arrives with serious privacy issues. Plus, NYC

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New York Times worldpolitics
Iran’s Strikes on Base in Jordan Caused Limited Damage, U.S. Officials Say (Gift Article)

The latest round of fighting may result in reports of traumatic brain injuries among American service members, officials warned.

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New York Times transportation
Opinion | The Data Center Conundrum (Gift Article)

Let’s learn from Nordic Countries: If America actually supported workers, we’d have a better shot at embracing technological change.

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New York Times sportsculture
NFL Week 1 picks against the spread: Take the Rams Down Under (but don’t crown them yet) (Gift Article)

Don't worry about the Rams' late arrival in Australia. Meanwhile, we see the Bills, Chiefs, Bengals and Bears all getting upset in Week 1.

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Medium politicsculture
The Fading-Out Electoral Vortex

Blowing up immigration myths on a psychedelic L Street ride

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Medium science
Authority in Transition: How “Thoughts Become Reality” Keeps Finding a New Science to Wear

The claim that thoughts become reality is not a modern invention. Napoleon Hill built a publishing empire on it in 1937. New Age teachers…

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Medium culture
Coyote Vs. Acme: We Are All Sisyphus

One can imagine Wile E. Coyote happy

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New York Times sports
Mike Evans is fitting right in with the 49ers: ‘He’s a stud’ (Gift Article)

Evans is "a very savvy, confident veteran football player who adds a lot of leadership qualities to our room," Klay Kubiak said.

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New York Times politicsworld
Toxic PFAS Cleanups at Military Sites Face Decades of Delay (Gift Article)

The Pentagon has again postponed PFAS cleanups at hundreds of military sites, in some cases up to 19 years, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.

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New York Times entertainment
Book Review: ‘Call It Evil,’ by Susan Neiman (Gift Article)

In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.

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New York Times politics
Trump Is Delayed After Emergency Slide Deploys on New Air Force One (Gift Article)

The mishap occurred while the Qatari-donated jet was parked on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. It delayed President Trump’s departure to a Republican convention in Dallas.

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New York Times entertainment
Why the U.S. Open’s nights leave fans in the dark as tennis goes later in the earlier rounds

Increased parity, thrilling early matches and tennis itself are conspiring to push New York's famous late nights to extremes.

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New York Times politicstransportation
Election Officials Grapple With Uncertainty as Supreme Court Considers Mail Ballot Plan (Gift Article)

As they wait for word on whether the Trump administration’s new system to screen ballots can move forward, local officials say they are running out of time.

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The Atlantic politics
All the Places Trump Was on 9/11

The president’s latest version doesn’t square with the facts.

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New York Times sportsculturelegal
Lucien Smith, Art-World Star Whose Career Abruptly Turned, Dies at 37 (Gift Article)

A phenom in his 20s, he became the poster child for Zombie Formalism before abandoning the gallery frenzy for Montauk.

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Medium businesstechnology
iOS 27 Version Will Be Here Soon

Why can’t we have history on iOS Spotlight?

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New York Times politics
Why Trump’s Republican Midterm ‘Convention’ Isn’t a Real Convention (Gift Article)

No nominations or formal party business will be happening, as they would at a traditional presidential convention. But the made-for-TV speeches will look much the same.

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New York Times politics
Trump’s Convention Offers an Unusual Fund-Raising Opportunity for Republicans (Gift Article)

Republicans are hoping to use the Dallas extravaganza as a fund-raising opportunity, with some local parties charging as much as $20,000 to be an “honorary delegate.”

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Column | Ik keek naar ON zoals je naar wandelende takken in een terrarium kunt kijken

Ik was het deze week eens met Arjen Lubach, die het op zijn beurt weer eens was met Angela de Jong. Verwarrend. Aanleiding was het Hitler-filmpje van de met bloedspoed ontslagen Joost Niemöller, hoofd...

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The Times (UK) legalpoliticsworld
When the British left Palestine — Sebastian Faulks’s foreboding new novel

Faulks returns with Farewell to Eden, the story of a soldier sent into the febrile atmosphere of Palestine in 1947, just as the Mandate is about to expire

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Medium opinion
The Firemen Who Never Carried Donald trump

Twenty-five years after 9/11, he’s still stealing a rescue that never happened from men who actually gave everything

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New York Times legalpoliticsbusiness
Is LSU vs. SEC feud cooling? Lawsuit hearing postponed, president says roster issue ‘moot’

LSU president Wade Rousse sent SEC commissioner Greg Sankey a letter, dated Wednesday, to “clear up the allegations against LSU.”

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New York Times politics
60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality (Gift Article)

With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.

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Medium opinionculture
So, I’m Crazy?

Apparently, I’m crazy.

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Defector culture
Should I Be Worried That My Kid Hasn't Found A Best Friend? | Defector

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. This week, Ju...

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New York Times politicsworld
Opinion | Canada and the Bully to Its South (Gift Article)

Readers discuss the contrasts between the United States and Canada, and the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America. Also: Conquering “digital territory.”

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