| Harvard Caps A’s as Selective Colleges Attack Grade Inflation
- Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
Wed, 20 May 2026 16:10:28 +0000
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| Meta Lays Off 8,000 Employees, As A.I. Casualties Mount
- Employees have signed petitions against being tracked by A.I. and were trying to figure out who had been let go on Wednesday, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.
Wed, 20 May 2026 16:07:06 +0000
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| RFK Jr. Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force
- The health secretary has undermined the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force over the past year.
Wed, 20 May 2026 15:58:14 +0000
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| A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What Ivy League Colleges Can’t
- College education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.
Wed, 20 May 2026 15:45:07 +0000
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| Rubio, in Video, Urges Cubans to Align With Trump Administration
- In a rare direct address, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed the former leader Raúl Castro for the country’s longstanding electricity and resource shortages.
Wed, 20 May 2026 15:25:40 +0000
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| Trump’s Slush Fund Will Reward Criminals. Americans Will Pay for It.
- The president’s corruption and subversion of democratic tradition risk becoming the norm.
Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:07 +0000
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| A Founder of e.l.f. Cosmetics Gave Up the High Life to Be a Catholic Priest
- A mystical encounter 12 years ago led Scott Vincent Borba, a founder of E.L.F. Beauty, on a journey that will culminate this week, when he is ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:59:47 +0000
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| San Diego Mosque Shooting Follows Alarm About Rising Islamophobia
- Muslims pointed to a rise in overt hatred online, political attacks and harassment in the months before the killing of three people outside an Islamic center.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:57:55 +0000
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| Iran Threatens to Strike Beyond the Middle East if the U.S. Resumes Attacks
- The warning was issued as President Trump and Vice President JD Vance say progress is being made toward a deal, while keeping open the threat of renewed strikes.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:43:51 +0000
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| Barney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86
- Often voted the “brainiest,” “funniest” and “most eloquent” member of the House, he was also the first to come out voluntarily and helped normalize being openly gay in public office.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:37:07 +0000
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| Timmy the Whale Got Stranded Off the German Coast. Then Things Got Weird.
- A humpback that became stuck in the Baltic seemed to unite a nation in hope. Rescue efforts followed, and then finger-pointing.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:33:22 +0000
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| James Murdoch Buys Half of Vox Media
- The media scion is buying Vox Media’s podcast network, New York magazine and Vox.com for more than $300 million.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:13:45 +0000
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| The French Civil Servant Accused of Drugging More Than 100 Women
- For years, prosecutors have accused Christian Nègre, once a senior official, of slipping diuretics into women’s drinks. Despite admitting some accusations in an interview with a French daily, he is yet to stand trial.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:11:31 +0000
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| Massachusetts Police Will Pause Recruit Training to Fix Academy’s Flaws
- State police officials say they need time to carry out recommendations made by an outside team after a trainee died in a police academy boxing match.
Wed, 20 May 2026 14:10:12 +0000
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| They Graduated Into the ‘Bleakest Job Market.’ Now It’s Their Children’s Turn.
- The New York Times profiled young job seekers in 1991. Today, their own children are entering a work force in flux.
Wed, 20 May 2026 13:39:50 +0000
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| Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
- An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.
Wed, 20 May 2026 13:22:06 +0000
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| I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family
- As part of the Justice Department’s deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump’s tax returns, that are pending.
Wed, 20 May 2026 12:52:00 +0000
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| Prison to Pardons to Payouts: Jan. 6 Rioters Are Elated at Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund
- The possibility that people who ransacked the Capitol could get money from the government they attacked is the latest head-spinning twist in President Trump’s effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.
Wed, 20 May 2026 12:49:51 +0000
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| Children of Radicals Write to Understand Their Legacies
- Zayd Ayers Dohrn and Harriet Clark on activism, violence, guilt and trying to make sense of their “incomprehensible” early days.
Wed, 20 May 2026 11:24:04 +0000
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| Who’s Writing This?
- We look at the expanding role of A.I. in our lives.
Wed, 20 May 2026 10:56:39 +0000
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