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New York Times (May 2025)
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Trump Loses Another Battle in His War Against Elite Law Firms
691 points • may 28, 2025
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Trump Installs Top Justice Dept. Official at Library of Congress, Prompting a Standoff
689 points • may 13, 2025
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Trump’s Military Buildup at the Border Expands
688 points • may 16, 2025
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The Future of Black History Lives on Donald Trump’s Front Lawn
686 points • may 17, 2025
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Tufts Student Returns to Massachusetts After 6 Weeks in Immigration Detention
686 points • may 11, 2025
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Trump Commutes Federal Life Sentences of Larry Hoover, Chicago Gang Leader
686 points • may 29, 2025
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Trump Condemns Putin’s Killings in Ukraine, but Doesn’t Make Him Pay a Price
686 points • may 26, 2025
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‘Are the Bricks Evil?’ In a Village Built for Nazis, Darkness Lingers.
686 points • may 27, 2025
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Cartel Family Members Cross Border in Apparent Deal With U.S., Official Says
682 points • may 15, 2025
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I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
680 points • may 03, 2025
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Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives
679 points • may 17, 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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The Tangled Roots of Memorial Day and Why It’s Celebrated
678 points • may 26, 2025
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What a New American Citizen Learned on Route 66
678 points • may 16, 2025
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Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
678 points • may 25, 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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Tom Friedman on Why Life Is Getting Much, Much Harder for Benjamin Netanyahu
676 points • may 29, 2025
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Why Washington’s Huge Tax Bill Is Worrying Bond Investors
676 points • may 21, 2025
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Republican Plan to Tax Elite Colleges Could Hit in Unexpected Places
674 points • may 20, 2025
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Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew
672 points • may 11, 2025
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‘Leap Together’: Kermit the Frog Gives a Graduation Speech
671 points • may 24, 2025
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U.S. Downgraded by Moody’s as Trump Pushes Costly Tax Cuts
669 points • may 17, 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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Why Did My Friend Keep Poking Her Husband When I Spoke at Dinner?
664 points • may 08, 2025
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Jan Todd May Be the Reason You’re Lifting Weights
661 points • may 26, 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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Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television
660 points • may 24, 2025
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House G.O.P. Presses Ahead on Tax and Spending Bill, With Votes Uncertain
660 points • may 22, 2025
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The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’
656 points • may 03, 2025
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World Catholics See the First American Pope as Hardly American
654 points • may 11, 2025
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A 20-Minute Workout You Can Do on the Go
654 points • may 25, 2025
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In a World of Addictive Foods, We Need GLP-1s
650 points • may 07, 2025
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In Trump’s America, All Parents and Children for Themselves
646 points • may 12, 2025
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A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump
644 points • may 05, 2025
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Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure
644 points • may 24, 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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1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books
643 points • may 26, 2025
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How to Secure Your Phone’s Data Before Traveling Abroad
642 points • may 01, 2025
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80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember
642 points • may 05, 2025
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Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People
640 points • may 22, 2025
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Your Cat May or May Not Love You, but It Knows Your Scent
640 points • may 29, 2025
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Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud
638 points • may 28, 2025
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Alligator Kills Woman After Flipping Her Canoe in Florida, Officials Say
634 points • may 08, 2025
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How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
634 points • may 29, 2025
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Trump Showed Images of ‘Genocide’ in South Africa. One Was From the War in Congo.
634 points • may 24, 2025
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Republicans Propose Paring Medicaid Coverage but Steer Clear of Deeper Cuts
632 points • may 12, 2025
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DOGE Removes Dozens of Resurrected Contracts From Its List of Savings
632 points • may 14, 2025
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The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump
632 points • may 19, 2025
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25 Years of N.Y.C. Dining
632 points • may 07, 2025
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Joe Don Baker, Actor Who Found Fame With ‘Walking Tall,’ Dies at 89
632 points • may 16, 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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17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression All at Once
626 points • may 01, 2025
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Can a $700 Calendar Save Your Marriage?
626 points • may 13, 2025
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Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was a Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another.
625 points • may 24, 2025
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Democrats Pause Their Anger at Biden Over 2024, but Have New Questions
624 points • may 20, 2025
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Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants
622 points • may 10, 2025
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The ICE Raids in Nashville Aren’t About Public Safety
618 points • may 22, 2025
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A Modern Townhouse Rises in Brooklyn and an Anonymous Critic Follows
615 points • may 28, 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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Republican Crackdown on Aid to Immigrants Would Hit U.S. Citizens
614 points • may 28, 2025
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Outsourcer in Chief: Is Trump Trading Away America’s Tech Future?
613 points • may 16, 2025
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Trump’s Order to Sanitize Black History Meets Institutional Resistance
612 points • may 07, 2025
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Couple Imprisoned Girl for 7 Years and Kept Her in Dog Cage, Police Say
612 points • may 18, 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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The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem.
609 points • may 30, 2025
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The Political Tariff Trap for Republicans
606 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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Glacier Collapse in the Swiss Alps Destroys Most of a Village
602 points • may 29, 2025
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South Africa Collides Head-On With Trump’s Claims of White Victimhood
602 points • may 23, 2025
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José Mujica, Leftist President of Uruguay Known for Humility, Dies at 89
600 points • may 14, 2025
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House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid
600 points • may 15, 2025
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The Trumps Get Richer
600 points • may 14, 2025
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U.S. Charges Russian Scientist With Smuggling
600 points • may 15, 2025
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Trump Gives Clemency to More Than Two Dozen, Including Political Allies
598 points • may 29, 2025
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These Founding Fathers Were Frenemies. Maybe We Can Learn Something.
597 points • may 25, 2025
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Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines
596 points • may 01, 2025
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Russia Bombards Ukraine With One of Largest Air Assaults of the War
596 points • may 25, 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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A Former ‘It’ Girl Deletes Herself
584 points • may 23, 2025
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Trump Isn’t the First Politician to Sell the Office
584 points • may 18, 2025
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NPR Sues Trump Over Order to Cut Funding
584 points • may 27, 2025
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The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
582 points • may 16, 2025
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There Are Two Chinas, and America Must Understand Both
582 points • may 14, 2025
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In Nashville, Volunteers Are Figuring Out How to Counter ICE
581 points • may 27, 2025
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In Montana, a Rare Sight: Republicans and Democrats Voting Together
577 points • may 03, 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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Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on Diversity Policies With Fresh Order for Review of Library Books
576 points • may 10, 2025
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Trump’s Flurry of Pardons Signals a Wholesale Effort to Redefine Crime
574 points • may 30, 2025
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Checks on Migrant Children by Homeland Security Agents Stir Fear
574 points • may 29, 2025
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36 Hours in Annapolis, Md.
572 points • may 24, 2025
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In California, There’s One Import That Nobody Wants
572 points • may 27, 2025
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Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
571 points • may 11, 2025
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Marcel Ophuls, Myth-Shattering War Documentarian, Is Dead at 97
571 points • may 26, 2025
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When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers
570 points • may 22, 2025
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He Took a Wrong Turn Into Canada. The Price? 3 Weeks in ICE Custody.
569 points • may 30, 2025
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Trump’s Failings Are Obvious. Why Are People Still Surprised?
566 points • may 04, 2025