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Ted Turner’s Legacy as a Landowner and Conservationist

The media mogul, who died this week, amassed roughly two million acres and revived entire ecosystems.

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Ted Turner’s Mark on Atlanta Lived On, Even After He Left the Spotlight

The city where he planted his empire came to embody his ambitions and his confidence. Mr. Turner died on Wednesday at 87.

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Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search

Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.

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Florida Creates a More Conservative Course to Rival A.P. History

Here are ways Florida’s advanced high school history program, which students can use for college credit, differs from other curriculums.

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Is This the Hidden Reason So Few People Are Having Kids?

We can’t be certain — and that’s the point.

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America the Undammed

More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.

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The Sun Sets on ‘Jersey Shore.’ For Now, Anyway.

The new season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” will be the last on MTV. The castmates said it’s only a matter of time before it returns somehow.

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What Are ‘Teen Takeovers’ and Why Are Police Struggling to Stop Them?

Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.

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Retracing Henry Knox’s Revolutionary War Trek Across the Wilderness

In 1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller, to fetch 60 tons of artillery. We followed Knox’s route to see how the country has changed.

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The Empty Nesters Opting for R.V. Life

With little tethering them to home, some empty nesters are taking to the road.

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After Stumbles, Technology Meant for Self-Driving Cars Finds a Second Act

After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic.

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Tornadoes in Mississippi Damage More Than 1,000 Buildings

State officials were assessing the damage from a storm that ripped through the region overnight. At least four people suffered minor injuries.

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Mamdani Wants Free Buses for All. The City Council Has Different Ideas.

Rather than making city buses free for all riders, elected officials and transit advocates are pushing to expand a transit program for low-income New Yorkers.

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Will New York Freeze the Rent? A Panel Will Cast Its First Vote.

The panel that regulates rents for nearly one million apartments is set to weigh in on potential increases for the first time since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.

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N.Y.C. Schools Could Lose 153,000 Students in Next Decade, Study Finds

A confluence of factors is causing public schools in New York and across the country to experience dramatic reductions in enrollment.

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Late Night Isn’t Buying Trump’s New ‘Skirmish’ in Iran

After Trump used the terms “miniwar” and “excursion” to describe the conflict in Iran, Jimmy Kimmel predicted that the president would next call the war “a tiff. It will be a $200 billion tiff.”

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5 Takeaways From the Last Televised California Governor Debate

Candidates debated housing and insurance policy in the first half, then furiously attacked one another at the end.

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Trump Keeps Saying He Wants to Leave NATO. Maybe He Already Has.

For the NATO deterrent to work, Europe and Russia both have to believe that America is coming.

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Starmer Braces for Local Election Losses Amid New Era of UK Politics

Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform U.K. makes gains, and a new era of multiparty politics takes shape.

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Starmer Faces a Major Test in a Set of UK Elections: What to Know

Local elections in England, and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, take place on Thursday. The governing Labour Party is expected to do very badly.

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The ‘Perfect Storm’ Hanging Over Britain’s Public Debt

Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government.

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War and Energy Shortages Boost China’s Influence in Asia

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

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Howard Lutnick Grilled by Lawmakers Over Epstein Ties

The commerce secretary appeared for hours in a closed-door session on Wednesday with the House Oversight Committee

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Judge Says F.B.I. Can Keep 2020 Election Records Seized From Georgia

The ruling is the latest in a saga driven by President Trump’s desire for redemption in the state, which he lost in 2020. The county is likely to appeal.

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Susan Collins Says She Has Long Had a Benign Tremor

The Republican senator from Maine, running for re-election at age 73 in one of this year’s top Senate races, made the disclosure after mounting online scrutiny on the left.

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A Scaled-Back Celebration for Public Servants ‘in Trauma’

The Trump administration has eliminated more than 350,000 federal jobs. But an annual effort to inspire talented people to serve the public continues.

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Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.

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Health Authorities Monitor Hantavirus Cruise Passengers in United States

People in at least three states are being monitored after being on the ship. None have shown symptoms, officials said.

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Here’s what to know about the California governor race.

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Elon Musk’s Confidante Shivon Zilis Is Cast as His Inside Source at OpenAI

Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.

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