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New York Times (May 2025)
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After Years Overseas, They Came Home for a Quiet Life in Upstate New York
959 points • may 08, 2025
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Leader of FEMA Is Dismissed as Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Agency
958 points • may 08, 2025
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The Ultimate 10-Day Japan Itinerary, With Options for Saving and Splurging
952 points • may 02, 2025
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Trump’s Return to Power Elevates Ever Fringier Conspiracy Theories
950 points • may 06, 2025
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What Makes You Happy? Take Our Quiz.
945 points • may 02, 2025
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Australia’s Prime Minister Clinches Second Term in Remarkable Comeback
934 points • may 04, 2025
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The Happiest Country in the World Isn’t What You Think
933 points • may 01, 2025
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Everywhere You Need to Go in Japan
930 points • may 01, 2025
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Carney Tells Trump Canada ‘Is Not for Sale’ During White House Visit
917 points • may 06, 2025
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At This Humble Used Car Lot, Tariffs Are Beginning to Sting
915 points • may 04, 2025
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Recuses Herself in a Charter School Case
904 points • may 01, 2025
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New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans
901 points • may 09, 2025
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
897 points • may 05, 2025
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Spain in the Dark Is Safer Than Elsewhere With Power
883 points • may 03, 2025
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The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard for How to Be Happy
881 points • may 01, 2025
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Our Dad, Leonard Bernstein, Would Want His Music Played at the Kennedy Center
874 points • may 02, 2025
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Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak
864 points • may 03, 2025
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What Your Estate Plan May Be Missing
857 points • may 03, 2025
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Proof Trump Has No Idea How the Trade Deficit Works
856 points • may 04, 2025
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The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives
845 points • may 06, 2025
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10 Tips for Being Happily 85 Years Old (Like Me)
837 points • may 01, 2025
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10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Starry Night’ by van Gogh
836 points • may 06, 2025
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Waltz’s Use of Messaging Platform Raises New Security Questions
836 points • may 02, 2025
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The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
834 points • may 04, 2025
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Medicine Spares Cancer Patients From Grisly Surgeries and Harsh Therapies
797 points • may 01, 2025
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Test Your Knowledge of the Papal Conclave
795 points • may 07, 2025
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Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times
794 points • may 03, 2025
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For Those Who Wish to Fight Back but Don’t Know How
791 points • may 02, 2025
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Ruth Buzzi, Purse-Wielding Gladys of ‘Laugh-In,’ Is Dead at 88
764 points • may 02, 2025
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Trump Says He Wants Alcatraz Restored as a Prison
762 points • may 05, 2025
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These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
762 points • may 05, 2025
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Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows
758 points • may 06, 2025
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The Christian Right Is Going Extinct
754 points • may 01, 2025
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Her Final Wish: A Home for the Son She Never Got to Hold
752 points • may 05, 2025
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This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
747 points • may 06, 2025
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Jeremy Renner and the Science of Extraordinary Near-Death Experiences
741 points • may 03, 2025
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Graham Norton’s Manhattan Carriage House Is Listed for $5.595 Million
738 points • may 03, 2025
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You Can Bring Your Old Wood Furniture Back to Life
736 points • may 03, 2025
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Who’s the Greatest Grifter of Them All?
735 points • may 07, 2025
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V.A. Mental Health Care Staff, Crowded into Federal Buildings, Raise Patient Privacy Alarms
735 points • may 04, 2025
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A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?
724 points • may 01, 2025
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A Diver Visited a Fallen Whale. When He Returned, It Was Gone.
720 points • may 01, 2025
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Trump Seeks to End Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless
716 points • may 04, 2025
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The Dark Side of Empathy
708 points • may 04, 2025
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Veterans’ Groups Object to Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day
702 points • may 03, 2025
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Controllers Briefly Lost Contact With Planes at Newark Last Week, Union Official Says
699 points • may 06, 2025
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Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III
698 points • may 08, 2025
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Trump’s Third-Term Jokes Deserve a Serious Response
694 points • may 06, 2025
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It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up.
692 points • may 04, 2025
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Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows
690 points • may 06, 2025
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I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
680 points • may 03, 2025
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All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed
678 points • may 01, 2025
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What Green Card Holders Should Know in Preparing to Travel Outside the U.S.
678 points • may 02, 2025
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
665 points • may 01, 2025
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Oil Prices Are Falling. Here’s Where That Could Spell Trouble.
664 points • may 04, 2025
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What Can You Do About Tinnitus?
662 points • may 01, 2025
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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS
661 points • may 02, 2025
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The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’
656 points • may 03, 2025
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The Moment Pope Leo XIV Emerged on the Balcony
646 points • may 09, 2025
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‘We Don’t Have to Sign Deals’: Trump Backs Off Big Promises About Tariffs
644 points • may 07, 2025
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A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump
644 points • may 05, 2025
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80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember
642 points • may 05, 2025
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How to Secure Your Phone’s Data Before Traveling Abroad
642 points • may 01, 2025
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
632 points • may 04, 2025
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25 Years of N.Y.C. Dining
632 points • may 07, 2025
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In a World of Addictive Foods, We Need GLP-1s
627 points • may 07, 2025
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17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression All at Once
626 points • may 01, 2025
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Why Did My Friend Keep Poking Her Husband When I Spoke at Dinner?
620 points • may 08, 2025
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Republican Gives Up Fight to Overturn Defeat in N.C. Judicial Race
614 points • may 07, 2025
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A Little-Known Corner of Ireland Beckons
614 points • may 01, 2025
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Trump’s Order to Sanitize Black History Meets Institutional Resistance
612 points • may 07, 2025
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Trump’s Order Targeting Law Firm Perkins Coie Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
611 points • may 03, 2025
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How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
609 points • may 08, 2025
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Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health
606 points • may 01, 2025
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The Political Tariff Trap for Republicans
606 points • may 08, 2025
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Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.
597 points • may 08, 2025
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The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’
595 points • may 03, 2025
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Judge Orders Elections Board to Certify Democrat’s Victory in Contested N.C. Race
594 points • may 06, 2025
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Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for Investigation
588 points • may 06, 2025
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In Montana, a Rare Sight: Republicans and Democrats Voting Together
577 points • may 03, 2025
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‘James’ Won the Pulitzer, but Not Without Complications
576 points • may 07, 2025
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Kennedy Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
576 points • may 02, 2025
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Trump’s Failings Are Obvious. Why Are People Still Surprised?
566 points • may 04, 2025
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I Brake for Robins
559 points • may 05, 2025
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The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism
558 points • may 01, 2025
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Alligator Kills Woman After Flipping Her Canoe in Florida, Officials Say
553 points • may 08, 2025
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Piercing the Shadows of the Pope’s Favorite Painting
548 points • may 04, 2025
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A Longevity Expert’s 5 Tips for Aging Well
547 points • may 07, 2025
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Another Reason People Fear the Government
540 points • may 05, 2025
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36 Hours in Berlin
538 points • may 04, 2025
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Trump Has Made Claims About Abrego Garcia’s Tattoos. Here’s a Closer Look.
536 points • may 08, 2025
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I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
535 points • may 03, 2025
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C.I.A. Fires Top Doctor Targeted by Far-Right Activist
532 points • may 03, 2025
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Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College
532 points • may 07, 2025
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A ‘Citizen Lawyer’ Gets a Standing Ovation at the Supreme Court
519 points • may 01, 2025
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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
514 points • may 07, 2025
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‘I Wanted to Do Work That Was Helping People.’ Then Trump Fired Him — Twice.
512 points • may 01, 2025
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We Have to Deal With Presidential Power
510 points • may 05, 2025
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He Hears Voices in His Head. He Also Helped Win an Election.
510 points • may 07, 2025
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A 20-Minute Core Workout for Strength and Stability
508 points • may 07, 2025