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How the New York Times Stays Young After 175 Years

A conversation about how The Times stays up to speed with youth culture.

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This Tiny Village Is Picture Perfect, Apart From All the Tourists

The residents of Vlkolinec in Slovakia — there are 17 — say that since the place was named a world heritage site, gawking hordes have made it unlivable.

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Russian Attacks Destroy Millions of Books, the Heart of Ukrainian Culture

A publisher whose warehouse was hit twice said Moscow “thinks that books are more dangerous for them than military equipment.”

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Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.

Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.

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New Film Revisits One City’s Deadly Chapter of ‘To Catch a Predator’

When the long-running TV franchise came to Murphy, Texas, in 2006, a man ended up dead. A new film, “Primetime,” looks back on what happened.

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Inside the Record Summer ICE Surge That Swept Across the U.S.

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.

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How Drinking Affects Your Dementia Risk

Researchers are still investigating what alcohol does to the brain, and what (if any) amount is safe.

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Desi Lydic Roasts Trump for Pulling Out All the Stops for Xi

“Trump picked him up at the airport? OK, that is friendship,” Lydic said on Thursday’s “Daily Show.”

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Pandas and Eagles and A.I., Oh My! Trump Throws a State Dinner for Xi

Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.

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Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France

After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.

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Cambridge Abandons Plans to Fully Investigate Its Hiring of Jason Arday

The professor became a flashpoint in debates over diversity efforts in higher education.

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Flyovers and Pandas Masked Divides in Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit

President Trump pressed his personal brand of diplomacy as President Xi Jinping of China made his first trip to the White House in more than a decade.

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Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii

Though likely to avoid a direct hit, parts of the state could receive nearly three feet of rain, forecasters warned.

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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.

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How ‘The Sopranos’ Influenced the Best TV Shows of the 21st Century

Our poll of the best shows of the 21st century explores how TV built on, and moved on from, one of the last great shows of the 20th.

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France to Send Soldiers to Saudi Arabia to Help Secure Energy Sites

Attacks on Saudi cities on the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen have added to pressure on global oil supplies.

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Airline Credit Cards Are Screwing Up the Whole Industry

Airline loyalty programs are anticompetitive and hurting consumers.

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Millions in Indonesia Breathe In Toxic Haze From Months of Wildfires

For months, millions of people have been living under a stifling blanket of toxic haze, fueled by a punishing drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern.

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Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi

Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook were among those invited to the event, hosted by President Trump and Melania Trump.

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‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was the country’s most visible Roman Catholic clergyman of the 20th century, is one step closer to sainthood after a ceremony in St. Louis.

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Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War

Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived.

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Netanyahu, Addressing U.N., Denounces Israel’s Critics as ‘Moral Cowards’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also reserved some of his ire for the mayor of the city hosting him, Zohran Mamdani.

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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.

The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.

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Dale Caldwell, New Jersey’s Lt. Governor, Violated Workplace Policies, Report Finds

Investigators found that New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, sought a promotion for his girlfriend and made a sexually charged comment to a staff member.

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About 100 Are Arrested in Protests Against Netanyahu

Large groups gathered in Midtown Manhattan to demonstrate as the Israeli prime minister spoke to the General Assembly.

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Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown

In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention.

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Edward Lehner, Who Made Dog Owners Pick ‘It’ Up, Dies at 93

Before the law passed, navigating New York was a harrowing exercise in dog-feces avoidance. As he put it, sometimes “you would come home and have it all over you.”

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Bob Pettit, N.B.A. Great for the Hawks, Dies at 93

A prolific scorer and rebounder, in 1958 he delivered one of the most remarkable performances in playoff history.

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries

A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own.

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Florida Charges 20 People with Voter Fraud

Most cases involved noncitizens who registered to vote, attesting that they were U.S. citizens, state officials said.

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