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New York Times (May 2021)
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  Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently
  
  
13337 points • may 18, 2021
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  There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
  
  
11607 points • may 01, 2021
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  After Years of Quiet, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Exploded. Why Now?
  
  
9053 points • may 16, 2021
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  Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior
  
  
8346 points • may 16, 2021
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  From Best Friends to Platonic Spouses
  
  
7962 points • may 02, 2021
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  Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find
  
  
7937 points • may 27, 2021
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  C.D.C. Is Investigating a Heart Problem in a Few Young Vaccine Recipients
  
  
7630 points • may 23, 2021
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  Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
  
  
7556 points • may 03, 2021
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  How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
  
  
7293 points • may 01, 2021
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  Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide Their Chests
  
  
6875 points • may 23, 2021
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  Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications
  
  
6773 points • may 23, 2021
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  A Pastor’s Son Becomes a Critic of Religion on TikTok
  
  
6522 points • may 22, 2021
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  Her High School Said She Ranked Third in Her Class. So She Went to Court.
  
  
6509 points • may 29, 2021
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  Heads Up! A Used Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth This Weekend.
  
  
6432 points • may 07, 2021
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  What Is ‘Cheugy’? You Know It When You See It.
  
  
6416 points • may 01, 2021
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  A Teenager Mistakenly Moved Into a Senior Living Complex. TikTok Loves It.
  
  
6224 points • may 04, 2021
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  Girl, Wash Your Timeline
  
  
5982 points • may 01, 2021
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  What Activities Can Unvaccinated Children Do? Advice From 828 Experts.
  
  
5886 points • may 22, 2021
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  Want to Move to Our Town? Here’s $10,000 and a Free Bike.
  
  
5776 points • may 01, 2021
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  Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split from the G.O.P.
  
  
5746 points • may 12, 2021
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  Biden to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Make U.S. More Competitive
  
  
5640 points • may 27, 2021
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  Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fails Drug Test
  
  
5419 points • may 09, 2021
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  Paulina Porizkova, Full-Frontal Emotion
  
  
5384 points • may 16, 2021
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  A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer.
  
  
5380 points • may 20, 2021
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  Bill and Melinda Gates Are Divorcing After 27 Years of Marriage
  
  
5364 points • may 03, 2021
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  The Separate Worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates
  
  
5295 points • may 09, 2021
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  Police Find More Than 90 People Crammed Into a Houston Home
  
  
5228 points • may 01, 2021
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  It’s a Home in Brooklyn. What Could It Cost? $100,000?
  
  
4914 points • may 12, 2021
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  See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.
  
  
4888 points • may 06, 2021
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  The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.
  
  
4856 points • may 01, 2021
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  Miss Universe Myanmar Arrives in Florida With a Message for the Junta
  
  
4676 points • may 15, 2021
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  Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’
  
  
4634 points • may 25, 2021
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  Women Who Said No to Motherhood
  
  
4627 points • may 03, 2021
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  Covid Killed His Father. Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills.
  
  
4627 points • may 21, 2021
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  When to Watch a Lunar Eclipse and Supermoon in Late Night Skies
  
  
4522 points • may 25, 2021
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  China Says Debris From Its Rocket Landed Near Maldives
  
  
4520 points • may 09, 2021
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  He’s a Dogecoin Millionaire. And He’s Not Selling.
  
  
4503 points • may 14, 2021
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  Man Rescued in Colorado Mountain Pass Is Accused in 1982 Murders
  
  
4478 points • may 27, 2021
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  Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government
  
  
4458 points • may 15, 2021
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  The virus is an airborne threat, the C.D.C. acknowledges.
  
  
4446 points • may 08, 2021
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  They’re Vaccinated and Keeping Their Masks On, Maybe Forever
  
  
4431 points • may 17, 2021
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  Charles Grodin, Star of ‘Beethoven’ and ‘Heartbreak Kid,’ Dies at 86
  
  
4410 points • may 19, 2021
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  Wild Horses Adopted Under a Federal Program Are Going to Slaughter
  
  
4400 points • may 15, 2021
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  4 Years After an Execution, a Different Man’s DNA Is Found on the Murder Weapon
  
  
4373 points • may 07, 2021
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  I’ll Take ‘White Supremacist Hand Gestures’ for $1,000
  
  
4330 points • may 17, 2021
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  Damon Weaver, Child Reporter Who Interviewed Obama, Dies at 23
  
  
4216 points • may 16, 2021
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  Beneath Joe Biden’s Folksy Demeanor, a Short Fuse and an Obsession With Details
  
  
4201 points • may 14, 2021
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  World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Is Spooked by Covid Spike
  
  
4114 points • may 12, 2021
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  Australia Exhumes the Somerton Man, and His 70-Year Mystery
  
  
4110 points • may 23, 2021
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  Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon
  
  
4020 points • may 28, 2021
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  Andrew Yang Promised to Create 100,000 Jobs. He Ended Up With 150.
  
  
4003 points • may 02, 2021
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  The Latest Coronavirus Comes From Dogs
  
  
3986 points • may 21, 2021
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  Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government
  
  
3929 points • may 14, 2021
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  21 Runners Dead After Extreme Weather Hits Chinese Ultramarathon
  
  
3929 points • may 24, 2021
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  His Comfort Is Not My Responsibility
  
  
3880 points • may 21, 2021
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  Paris Teenager’s New Gig: Would-Be Queen of Italy. A Nation Shrugs.
  
  
3867 points • may 10, 2021
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  Online Cheating Charges Upend Dartmouth Medical School
  
  
3851 points • may 09, 2021
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  A Farmer Moved a 200-Year-Old Stone, and the French-Belgian Border
  
  
3742 points • may 06, 2021
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  A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
  
  
3716 points • may 14, 2021
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  Belarus Forces Down Plane to Seize Dissident; Europe Sees ‘State Hijacking’
  
  
3713 points • may 24, 2021
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  Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build N.J. Temple
  
  
3709 points • may 11, 2021
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  7 Dead in Shooting at Birthday Party in Colorado, Police Say
  
  
3690 points • may 10, 2021
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  On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue
  
  
3658 points • may 05, 2021
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  Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters
  
  
3602 points • may 06, 2021
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  The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick
  
  
3553 points • may 24, 2021
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  Review: Going Home to Iowa With the Queen of Meth
  
  
3541 points • may 09, 2021
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  2 Airlines Will Postpone Serving Alcohol Amid Surge of In-Flight Violence
  
  
3458 points • may 30, 2021
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  A Misleading C.D.C. Number
  
  
3457 points • may 11, 2021
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  Boxer Charged in Killing of Pregnant Woman Found in Puerto Rican Lagoon
  
  
3414 points • may 03, 2021
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  Amy Cooper, White Woman Who Called 911 on Black Birder, Sues Over Firing
  
  
3398 points • may 27, 2021
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  Mayor Accused of Fraud Has New Problem: Drug Charges for Her Husband
  
  
3372 points • may 22, 2021
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  How a Miami School Became a Beacon for Anti-Vaxxers
  
  
3340 points • may 03, 2021
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  John Cena Apologizes to China for Calling Taiwan a Country
  
  
3280 points • may 26, 2021
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  A Country-by-Country Guide to Reopened Europe
  
  
3279 points • may 20, 2021
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  I Know What It Takes to Defeat Narendra Modi
  
  
3278 points • may 06, 2021
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  The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t
  
  
3273 points • may 26, 2021
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  These Twins Lived Together. In Covid, They Died Together.
  
  
3272 points • may 20, 2021
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  The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
  
  
3270 points • may 10, 2021
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  ‘Get People Off’: Shutdown Ordered for Cracked Bridge in Memphis
  
  
3226 points • may 14, 2021
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  For Trump, Hamas and Bibi, It Is Always Jan. 6
  
  
3218 points • may 17, 2021
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  A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune
  
  
3213 points • may 27, 2021
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  More Than 30 Dead in Gaza and Israel as Fighting Quickly Escalates
  
  
3182 points • may 12, 2021
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  An ‘Army of 16-Year-Olds’ Takes On the Democrats
  
  
3168 points • may 20, 2021
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  What Voters in Wyoming Say About Liz Cheney’s Lonely Stand
  
  
3144 points • may 14, 2021
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  Mysterious Ailments Are Said to Be More Widespread Among U.S. Personnel
  
  
3128 points • may 13, 2021
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  She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box
  
  
3059 points • may 28, 2021
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  Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?
  
  
3054 points • may 01, 2021
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  Goodbye to a Yankee Farmer, the Ghost of Exit 8
  
  
3046 points • may 27, 2021
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  Who Gets Xanadu 2.0, the Gates Family Mansion?
  
  
3044 points • may 06, 2021
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  A Sharp Divide at the Supreme Court Over a One-Letter Word
  
  
3022 points • may 01, 2021
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  The Best Time of Day to Exercise for Metabolic Health
  
  
2989 points • may 26, 2021
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  A Super Blood Moon Dazzles Earthlings
  
  
2966 points • may 27, 2021
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  Harry Reid: What We Believe About U.F.O.s
  
  
2948 points • may 22, 2021
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  Japan Is Shaken After a Detainee, Wasting Away, Dies Alone in Her Cell
  
  
2930 points • may 18, 2021
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  A Psychedelic Drug Passes a Big Test for PTSD Treatment
  
  
2908 points • may 04, 2021
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  Fauci says indoor mask guidance should ‘start being more liberal.’
  
  
2862 points • may 10, 2021
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  Plague of Mice in Australia Overruns Farms, Shops and Bedrooms
  
  
2859 points • may 30, 2021
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  How a 17-Year-Old’s Birthday Party Became the Biggest Thing on the Internet
  
  
2852 points • may 25, 2021
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  The Myth of Labor Shortages
  
  
2843 points • may 21, 2021
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  ‘Death Is the Only Truth.’ Watching India’s Funeral Pyres Burn.
  
  
2806 points • may 01, 2021