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The Dystopian Horror of AI Data Centers

Where have all the natural resources gone?

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Text of the Email That Pete Hegseth’s Mother Sent Him (Gift Article)

Penelope Hegseth sent the email to her son in 2018 as he was in the middle of a divorce from his wife, Samantha.

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The Times (UK) legalpoliticsworld
London tourist tax ‘would deter majority of visitors’

Polling suggests that the proposal by the mayor of London to impose a levy on hotel stays could backfire

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New York Times opinion
Man Utd knew this WSL start would be brutal. Now they know what needs to be improved

Manchester United lost 5-0 against Chelsea on Sunday, continuing their difficult start to the new Women's Super League season

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Why Carney Isn’t Rushing Back to the Negotiating Table
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NY Daily News culturelegal
Young man and woman sit down together on Manhattan subway tracks, killed by train

The incident is not being investigated as a crime, police said, though it is not yet clear if the duo intended to kill themselves.

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Medium politics
the possibility that love is not enough

what do you fear most?

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New York Times sports
Texas’ Steve Sarkisian says ‘we’ll see’ if Horns keep scheduled home-and-home with Notre Dame (Gift Article)

One of college football’s upcoming marquee nonconference games in 2028 and 2029 might not get played after all.

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Medium healthscience
A New Shot Could Reset Aging Eyes and Bring Back Lost Sight

A gene treatment built on age-reversal science has entered its first human trials, aiming to repair the kind of eye damage doctors once…

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The Mythology of Lord Dunsany

Œ’s tribute to the King of Dreams

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Medium culture
The DiGenovas Just Quit.

No fraud. No proof. No indictment. Just another RepubliCON couple running from the lie they built their whole career on.

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Bloomberg businesspoliticsscience
Brazil Inc. Can Boom — If the Government Cleans Up Its Act

A tight formation of panettone streams past me on a conveyor belt. There must be what, 300 pieces? 400? They move too fast to count, perfectly aligned, marching toward a giant resting area before head...

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New York Times sports
George Chuvalo, Boxer Who Was Never Knocked Down, Dies at 89 (Gift Article)

Though he lost to the great champions of his era, his resilience earned him a reputation for having the sport’s strongest chin.

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New York Times politics
What Manchester United did wrong against Manchester City’s 10 men – and what City did right (Gift Article)

City's resilience was built upon the security of Elliot Anderson's cover runs while United's wastefulness saw them stutter at Old Trafford

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The Atlantic politicsworldculture
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

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Sydney Sweeney advert sparks backlash from female athletes: ‘This is what women in sport look like’

U.S. actor's naked commercial for a sports gambling firm has prompted women athletes to launch their own campaign.

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New York Times sports
In blowing out Colts, Declan Doyle and Ravens offense were ready for their close-ups

Under Doyle, the team's 30-year-old offensive coordinator, Lamar Jackson, Zay Flowers and company overwhelmed the Colts on Sunday.

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Bloomberg business
Canada to Prioritize Tax Rulings for Large Investment Proposals

Canada will prioritize requests for income tax clarity related to investments of at least C$1 billion ($720 million), a move meant to help international firms seeking to deploy capital in the nation.

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New York Times sports
Pistons fan survey: Did Detroit do enough this offseason to compete for a title? (Gift Article)

We surveyed hundreds of Pistons fans about a variety of topics. The results are in.

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New York Times sports
Payton Tolle’s ‘amazing’ fastball-heavy immaculate inning, Willson Contreras back (Gift Article)

Plus, a look at Tanner Houck's timeline for return among other takeaways as Boston gets set to embark on its final road trip of the season.

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The Atlantic culture
George Lucas’s Next Great Epic Is an Art Museum

Inside the “Star Wars” creator’s temple to storytelling

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Medium culturesportsentertainment
Pellizza da Volpedo: The Device of Distance

How the Italian Divisionist painter turned optical distance into presence — and made the viewer part of the picture.

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New York Times culture
‘Garry Starr’ Review: Half-Man, Half-Penguin, Full-Frontal (Gift Article)

Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.

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National Observer politicsscience
David Eby’s pipeline reversal comes at a political price

British Columbians who remember why the tanker ban and the court challenge mattered deserve to hear why Premier David Eby has given up opposing another pipeline from Alberta.

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Medium culturebusiness
The Cost of Healthcare and the Value of Human Lives

What matters more? A human life, or money?

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Medium businessworldlegal
Driven to Abstraction

Discussing and defining abstract art, from Cave Paintings to Kandinsky.

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New York Times politicsworld
Russian Strike on Train Station Near Ukraine-Poland Border Seen as Warning to Kyiv’s Allies (Gift Article)

The attack on Ukraine’s rail network, which connects the country to the West, was a jab at Europe, officials said.

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New York Times culturemediaopinion
Sam Sifton

Sam Sifton, the host of The Morning, was previously an assistant managing editor responsible for culture and lifestyle coverage and is the founding editor of New York Times Cooking.

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NRC cultureopinionworld
In de vrouwenwagon van de metro in Dubai zijn mannen niet welkom. ‘Het geeft me een veiliger gevoel’

De leefbare stad | Dubai, Verenigde Arabische Emiraten: Met stranden, metrowagons en clubs die verboden zijn voor mannen biedt Dubai een veilige omgeving, zeggen vrouwen. Het emiraat strijdt tegen het...

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Medium businesspoliticsworld
Sell Smarter to High-Value Clients

Clarity, proof and trust turn higher prices into easy yeses

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Bloomberg business
The UK’s Standout Success at Schooling Immigrant Kids Baffles Experts

In the UK, children from immigrant families tend to perform better than their peers, making the country a rare bright spot in the latest global education rankings. The issue for policymakers is that…

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New York Times sports
The Falcons’ quarterback question remains unanswered, and they have no hope until it is (Gift Article)

Cooper Rush threw two interceptions and was sacked four times in the Falcons' 20-13 season-opening loss to the Steelers on Sunday.

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New York Times sports
John Hynes Q&A, Part 1: Wild line combos, Shabanov’s opportunity, Coleman’s role and more (Gift Article)

The Wild coach discussed a wide range of topics in his annual pre-camp Q&A with The Athletic.

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New York Times sports
How Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes recovered so quickly from knee injury: ‘It’s incredible’ (Gift Article)

General manager Brett Veach wants you to know what Mahomes accomplished this offseason is not normal. Here’s why.

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New York Times sports
2026 NHL Prospects Challenge: Leafs, Canadiens, Jets and Senators standouts (Gift Article)

Scott Wheeler analyzes 45 players who appeared for Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Winnipeg at the NHL Prospects Challenge.

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National Observer transportation
Fibre optic cables reveal ‘icequakes’ in endangered glaciers

The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.

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National Observer politicstechnology
Viral mayoral campaign ad about disabled sex exposes AI's hazards for politics

A Winnipeg mayoral candidate's ad about disabled sex, and far-right's virulent online response to it, is an extreme example that highlights the growing challenges that AI poses to municipal elections ...

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National Observer legalsciencetechnology
Why conservationists are thinking and acting like beavers

As Canada faces worsening drought, wildfire and water insecurity, governments and conservation groups are using beaver technology to fortify landscapes.

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National Observer businessscience
A rave for plants: Calgary company tests pulsed lighting to cut indoor-farm energy use

A pulsed-LED system that flashes too quickly for the human eye to detect is moving into commercial trials at four farms in Alberta and Ontario. In controlled tests, it produced the same harvest as reg...

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Medium culturelegal
The Problem With "Women" Is Usually the Fine Print

Womanism did not emerge because Black women needed another label. It emerged because supposedly universal womanhood kept arriving with…

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New York Times scienceentertainment
Kent Monkman, an Indigenous Painter, Sees a Vermeer and the Sparks Fly (Gift Article)

For a new show at the Frick Collection, Kent Monkman imagines what Indigenous people see when they see fur trappers, General Custer and even Jeff Bezos.

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New York Times politicslegal
She Bashed the Government on a Private Call. Then She Was Detained for Months (Gift Article)

Racial and political tensions have flared in Trinidad and Tobago after members of an ethnic minority were accused of an assassination plot based on a private phone call.

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New York Times sportsculture
From ‘useless’ to perfect: How Enric Mas and Movistar won the 2026 Vuelta a Espana (Gift Article)

Spain's WorldTour squad finally won their home race again – this is how they did it

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New York Times sports
The ‘Big Six’ academy wars: How the Premier League elite turned on each other and why that’s a problem (Gift Article)

For decades, England's biggest clubs largely avoided signing youth players from each other. That has changed

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New York Times sports
Justin Herbert, Mike McDaniel have problems to fix after Chargers’ loss to Cardinals (Gift Article)

McDaniel was supposed to unlock more out of Herbert and the Chargers offense, but Sunday's mistakes show how much work remains.

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New York Times sports
Josh Allen’s audacity leads the way on a scintillating Sunday: NFL Wake-up Call (Gift Article)

Elsewhere in Week 1, Ben Johnson called his shot, the Chargers came up (way) short and the Packers earned a dubious honor.

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Medium sports
The Subjugation of Desiree — Earth 3 Origin Story

“Desiree, where did you go child? You can’t walk away from the Accommodation in the middle of the night like a banished nomad.”

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The Atlantic culture
Blind Into Baghdad

The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge. The inside story of a hi...

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New York Times businesssports
Private Equity Wants to Invest in College Sports. Some Schools Are Wary. (Gift Article)

As desperate as many athletic programs are for money, they are proceeding cautiously when it comes to deals with private equity.

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New York Times opinion
How much longer will Browns ask everyone to absorb cost for their Deshaun Watson debacle?  (Gift Article)

The most important thing Todd Monken can realize is this isn’t his mess. It’s not his bill to pay. Stop pretending like it is.

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