| If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One
- The oboe has 500 parts. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:46:33 +0000
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| Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go?
- The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:38:30 +0000
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| F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation
- It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:37:59 +0000
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| Republicans Move to Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela
- G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:20:46 +0000
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| Republicans Advance Stock-Trading Bill With Limited Restrictions
- The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:19:58 +0000
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| NASA to Begin Space Station Medical Evacuation: What to Know
- Four astronauts are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:10:42 +0000
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| Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
- Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:03:48 +0000
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| Mary Peltola Puts Alaska in Play for Democrats
- Mary Peltola’s entry into the Alaska Senate race is a building block in an electoral strategy Democrats have been working on for months.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:56:39 +0000
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| Judge Puts Off Ruling on Minnesota’s Request to Block ICE Surge
- Lawyers for the state sought an immediate ruling, but the judge said she would give the Justice Department time to respond in writing to the state’s lawsuit.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:55:57 +0000
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| Supreme Court Sides With Conservative Congressman in Illinois Election Rules Challenge
- The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:53:00 +0000
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| Iran Plans to Execute Erfan Soltani as Trump Threatens ‘Strong Action’
- Rights groups and relatives said Iran planned to put an antigovernment protester to death for the first time during the latest wave of unrest in the country.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:43:40 +0000
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| Can the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good in Minneapolis Be Prosecuted?
- The Trump administration is unlikely to bring a federal case, and any criminal case would face high hurdles. But charges are not out of the question.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:38 +0000
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| Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch
- A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:12:15 +0000
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| 2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
- If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:30:06 +0000
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| U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Military Response to Iran
- Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:54:05 +0000
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| Trump’s Threats to Greenland Raise Serious Questions for NATO
- The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:48:51 +0000
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| Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend
- In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:00:12 +0000
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| Lung Cancer Stigma Keeps People From Care
- The disease is the rare cancer met with accusations, not sympathy.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:00:09 +0000
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| Jim McBride Dies at 78; Brought Honky-Tonk Back to Country Music
- He was best known for his long-running collaboration with Alan Jackson and their signature hit, “Chattahoochee.”
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:48:22 +0000
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| Banks Ready Battle Plans to Save Their Credit Card Businesses
- “Everything’s on the table,” an executive at JPMorgan Chase said, as the industry seeks to head off President Trump’s effort to cap interest rates.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:45:19 +0000
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