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New York Times (May 2021)
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  Schools Are Open, but Many Families Remain Hesitant to Return
  
  
2798 points • may 10, 2021
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  The Gateses’ Public Split Spotlights a Secretive Fortune
  
  
2783 points • may 15, 2021
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  Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? An Investigation
  
  
2782 points • may 08, 2021
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  A ‘Community for All’? Not So Fast, This Wisconsin County Says.
  
  
2712 points • may 18, 2021
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  Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year
  
  
2690 points • may 14, 2021
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  A Scratched Hint of Ancient Ties Stirs National Furies in Europe
  
  
2686 points • may 17, 2021
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  ‘What Do I Do Next?’: Orphaned by Covid, Two Teens Find Their Way
  
  
2666 points • may 30, 2021
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  Dogecoin continues its scarcely believable surge.
  
  
2644 points • may 05, 2021
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  Texas Senate Passes One of the Nation’s Strictest Voting Bills
  
  
2632 points • may 30, 2021
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  Vaccinated Travelers Will Be Allowed to Visit, E.U. Says
  
  
2614 points • may 20, 2021
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  Eric Carle, Author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Dies at 91
  
  
2609 points • may 27, 2021
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  Judge Says Barr Misled on How His Justice Dept. Viewed Trump’s Actions
  
  
2584 points • may 05, 2021
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  Who’s Really Leaving California?
  
  
2544 points • may 11, 2021
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  SpaceX Makes First Nighttime Splashdown With Astronauts Since 1968
  
  
2500 points • may 03, 2021
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  The F.D.A. is set to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 12-15 years old by early next week.
  
  
2496 points • may 04, 2021
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  An abrupt U.S. change on mask guidance has set off a confusing scramble for states and cities.
  
  
2494 points • may 14, 2021
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  ‘We have all longed for this moment’: Federal guidance says vaccinated Americans may go without masks.
  
  
2490 points • may 14, 2021
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  Our Pathetic Herd Immunity Failure
  
  
2487 points • may 07, 2021
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  Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency
  
  
2486 points • may 28, 2021
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  Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
  
  
2473 points • may 08, 2021
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  Why Herd Immunity Is Slipping Away
  
  
2468 points • may 07, 2021
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  Are Plant Milks Good for You?
  
  
2439 points • may 10, 2021
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  What You May Not Know About Poison Ivy
  
  
2436 points • may 12, 2021
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  Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina
  
  
2435 points • may 20, 2021
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  Farmworker Convicted of Fatally Stabbing Iowa College Student
  
  
2434 points • may 29, 2021
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  Has Biden Changed? He Tells Us.
  
  
2405 points • may 21, 2021
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  Liz Cheney delivers defiant speech on House floor ahead of vote to oust her from G.O.P. leadership.
  
  
2404 points • may 12, 2021
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  Stampede at Israel Religious Celebration Kills at Least 45
  
  
2392 points • may 01, 2021
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  Is It OK to Ask Health Care Providers if They’re Vaccinated?
  
  
2374 points • may 27, 2021
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  The U.S. Birthrate Has Dropped Again. The Pandemic May Be Accelerating the Decline.
  
  
2374 points • may 05, 2021
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  The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
  
  
2367 points • may 07, 2021
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  The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok
  
  
2345 points • may 28, 2021
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  Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Social Network’s Ban of Trump
  
  
2338 points • may 05, 2021
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  The E.U. agrees to reopen to vaccinated visitors and those from Covid-safe countries.
  
  
2317 points • may 20, 2021
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  Life Under Occupation: The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict
  
  
2316 points • may 23, 2021
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  Faye Schulman Dies; Fought Nazis With a Rifle and a Camera
  
  
2278 points • may 29, 2021
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  Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past
  
  
2263 points • may 07, 2021
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  How a Genetic Trait in Black People Can Give the Police Cover
  
  
2262 points • may 16, 2021
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  New York’s Attorney General Joins Criminal Inquiry Into Trump Organization
  
  
2240 points • may 19, 2021
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  The Assorted Teachings of Dogecoin
  
  
2224 points • may 15, 2021
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  Teens Are in Crisis. So Are Their Parents.
  
  
2216 points • may 07, 2021
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  CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Dismissive Comments About Native Americans
  
  
2204 points • may 23, 2021
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  T.I. and Tiny Under Investigation by Los Angeles Police
  
  
2200 points • may 19, 2021
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  Claims From an Organized Crime Boss Rock Turkey’s Government
  
  
2192 points • may 19, 2021
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  The C.D.C. director offers a stark reassurance: Only unvaccinated people are at risk by unmasking.
  
  
2172 points • may 17, 2021
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  Trump Justice Dept. Seized CNN Reporter’s Email and Phone Records
  
  
2158 points • may 21, 2021
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  Oregon Lawmaker Who Let Protesters Into State Capitol Is Charged in Breach
  
  
2156 points • may 02, 2021
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  Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls
  
  
2142 points • may 01, 2021
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  The New Menu at Eleven Madison Park Will Be Meatless
  
  
2127 points • may 03, 2021
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  Cyberattack Forces a Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline
  
  
2126 points • may 09, 2021
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  Boris Johnson Married in Stealth Ceremony
  
  
2118 points • may 30, 2021
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  Ex-Priest Dies Just Before Facing Charges in 1972 Killing of an Altar Boy
  
  
2106 points • may 30, 2021
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  Remember the Homeless Chess Champion? The Boy Is Now a Chess Master.
  
  
2105 points • may 09, 2021
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  Good Luck to Republicans if Biden’s Family Plan Becomes Law
  
  
2089 points • may 01, 2021
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  Is the Second Dose Bad? If I Feel OK, Is It Working? Can I Take Tylenol?
  
  
2058 points • may 04, 2021
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  House Republicans oust a defiant Liz Cheney for her repudiation of Trump’s election lies.
  
  
2056 points • may 12, 2021
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  Dogecoin had an eventful weekend, thanks to Elon Musk.
  
  
2040 points • may 11, 2021
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  How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life
  
  
2035 points • may 01, 2021
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  Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates
  
  
2032 points • may 25, 2021
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  Why Women Do the Household Worrying
  
  
2022 points • may 16, 2021
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  Fox News Intensifies Its Pro-Trump Politics as Dissenters Depart
  
  
2005 points • may 29, 2021
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  A potentially fatal fungal infection is cropping up among India’s Covid patients.
  
  
1996 points • may 10, 2021
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  F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack
  
  
1992 points • may 11, 2021
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  N.F.L. draft order and picks: Here are the first round results.
  
  
1960 points • may 01, 2021
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  Supreme Court to Hear Abortion Case Challenging Roe v. Wade
  
  
1956 points • may 18, 2021
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  A Vaccine Side Effect Leaves Women Wondering: Why Isn’t the Pill Safer?
  
  
1956 points • may 30, 2021
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  Banning My Book Won’t Protect Your Child
  
  
1934 points • may 12, 2021
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  3 Shot, Including a 4-Year-Old, in Times Square, Police Say
  
  
1926 points • may 09, 2021
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  Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism? Someone Didn’t Get the Memo.
  
  
1925 points • may 25, 2021
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  A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn’t
  
  
1906 points • may 15, 2021
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  2 Americans Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Italian Police Officer
  
  
1904 points • may 06, 2021
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  On a tarmac in Detroit, Representative Rashida Tlaib confronted Biden on U.S. support for Israel.
  
  
1898 points • may 19, 2021
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  Coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States drop to lowest levels in nearly a year.
  
  
1880 points • may 24, 2021
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  Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1 Million Each to Encourage Vaccination
  
  
1866 points • may 13, 2021
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  Low-income households can now apply for a $50 monthly discount for internet.
  
  
1852 points • may 12, 2021
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  How to Win a Bidding War Before It Starts
  
  
1851 points • may 30, 2021
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  U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins
  
  
1832 points • may 28, 2021
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  The Evictions Surprised Trailer Park Residents. The Protest Stunned Officials.
  
  
1832 points • may 20, 2021
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  Ellen’s Relatability Was Her Downfall
  
  
1810 points • may 14, 2021
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  George Jung, Who Made Millions Smuggling Cocaine, Dies at 78
  
  
1808 points • may 10, 2021
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  Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin
  
  
1793 points • may 21, 2021
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  New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too?
  
  
1788 points • may 11, 2021
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  After Raid on Aqsa Mosque, Rockets From Gaza and Israeli Airstrikes
  
  
1772 points • may 11, 2021
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  Maskless and Sweaty: Clubbing Returns to Britain for a Weekend
  
  
1764 points • may 03, 2021
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  Do We Still Need to Keep Wearing Masks Outdoors?
  
  
1764 points • may 07, 2021
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  The Biden administration will begin making monthly child tax credit payments in July.
  
  
1756 points • may 18, 2021
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  Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy
  
  
1742 points • may 05, 2021
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  My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’
  
  
1740 points • may 14, 2021
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  ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Is Leaving YouTube After $760,999 NFT Sale
  
  
1736 points • may 25, 2021
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  A Nashville hat store sold ‘Not Vaccinated’ Star of David patches.
  
  
1716 points • may 30, 2021
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  Canadian Lawmaker Is Exposed on Camera for a Second Time
  
  
1708 points • may 28, 2021
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  Remains Found 36 Years Ago in Montana Are Identified
  
  
1708 points • may 14, 2021
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  Children of the Holocaust Who Are Anonymous No More
  
  
1700 points • may 19, 2021
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  Tawny Kitaen, Star of 1980s Music Videos, Dies at 59
  
  
1676 points • may 09, 2021
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  In Colombia, 19 Are Killed in Pandemic-Related Protests
  
  
1676 points • may 05, 2021
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  6 Things You Should Know About Traveling to Europe This Summer
  
  
1674 points • may 27, 2021
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  No-Knead Bread, Revisited
  
  
1670 points • may 04, 2021
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  Who Is Roman Protasevich, the Captive Journalist in Belarus?
  
  
1668 points • may 24, 2021
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  William Shakespeare, the first man in Britain to receive an approved Covid vaccine, dies at 81.
  
  
1664 points • may 27, 2021
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  Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s Covid Vaccine Skeptics
  
  
1652 points • may 01, 2021