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Journalists Share Short Sketches of ‘S.N.L.’ Memories

“Saturday Night Live” has been on the air for 50 seasons. Times Culture journalists covering the milestone wrote about their own memories of watching the show, late at night and the morning after.

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As Trump Targets Research, Scientists Share Grief and Resolve to Fight

At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.

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Yrjo Kukkapuro, Who Made the Easiest of Easy Chairs, Dies at 91

A celebrated Finnish modernist, he designed a variety of furnishings but was best known for his seating — which, his company said, “almost every Finn has sat on.”

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Trump’s Ambition to Redraw the World Map Ignores Those Affected Most

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

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Ukraine Won’t Accept a Deal It Didn’t Help Negotiate, Zelensky Says

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told NBC News that he’d warned President Trump that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is a “liar.”

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M23 Rebels in Congo Say They Have Entered Bukavu

Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

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Left Out of Ukraine Talks, Europe Races to Organize a Response

The Trump administration’s push for negotiations without Ukrainian involvement leaves European allies with no clear role.

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Trump Team Leaves European Alliance in Crisis; Macron Calls for Emergency Summit

European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.

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Life, from New York

Our comedy columnist reflects on 50 years of “Saturday Night Live.”

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Trump’s Legal Shakedowns Won’t End With the Adams Case

The Justice Department’s loyalty game is new, dangerous and self-defeating.

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Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

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M23 Rebels in Congo Say They Have Entered Bukavu

Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

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Marvel’s New ‘Captain America’ Is No. 1, Despite Poor Reviews

“Captain America: Brave New World” was expected to take in $84 million from Thursday through Sunday in North America.

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How to Watch the ‘S.N.L.’ 50th Anniversary Special

The venerable sketch show is throwing itself a big star-studded party on Sunday night. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

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How Trump’s One-for-One Tariff Plan Threatens the Global Economy

In starting a process to impose reciprocal tariffs on American trading partners, the White House is sowing uncertainty and risking inflation.

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Venting at Democrats and Fearing Trump, Liberal Donors Pull Back Cash

Demoralized donors are frustrated with Democrats’ failings and worried about retribution from the president. Their frugality has left liberal groups struggling to fight the new administration.

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An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted?

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How Pet Parrots Started a War Inside an NYC Apartment Building

How noise complaints in a Manhattan co-op led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.

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A Mandate for Boston’s Suburbs: Make Room for More Apartments

The state required 177 cities and towns served by public transit to loosen their zoning rules so that more multifamily housing can be built. A number of them resisted.

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On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters

After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.

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Volunteers Search for ISIS Kidnap Victims

No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their fates depend on a ragtag army of activists, relatives and armchair detectives.

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She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death

In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.

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Significant Winter Storm Continues to Sweep the East Coast

Heavy snow, sleet, freezing rain, and damaging winds of up to 70 miles per hour are all in the mix for Sunday into Monday.

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Like Bingo, but With Beef: Why Meat Raffles Are Blowing Up

Spinning the wheel to raise money for youth sports and, maybe, win a steak, sausage or bone-in pork butt.

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When Grave Markers Are Stolen, He Speaks for the Dead

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it.

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The Power Struggle Over a College Athlete’s Medical Well-Being

When the former team doctor for Penn State football sued for wrongful termination, the case offered a rare look into coaches interfering with medical advice.

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Knife Attack in Austria Kills One and Injures Four

The suspect, a Syrian national, was detained after stabbing several people in the city of Villach.

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The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours

What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?

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Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.

Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.

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East Timor’s Challenges Two Decades After Independence

East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty.

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