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Marcus J. Moore

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Bass

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz.

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Alice Callahan and Dani Blum

Bird Flu Highlights Concerns Around Raw Milk

Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?

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Claire Fahy

Veteran Collected Benefits After Lying About Purple Heart, U.S. Says

Sharon Toney-Finch, who served in Iraq in 2010, was charged with fraudulently claiming to have a Purple Heart and with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Alan Rappeport

Giant Pandas Are Returning to San Diego, China Announces

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.

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Ruth Graham

United Methodist Church Reverses Ban on Practicing Gay Clergy

In a meeting on Wednesday, church leaders also voted to allow L.G.B.T.Q. weddings.

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Anna Martin, Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Jen Poyant, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker, Rowan Niemisto and Marion Lozano

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Emily Ratajkowski Can Take Care of Herself, but a Little Help Would Be Nice

Why the model and writer wants to blow up gender roles in dating, without chivalry having to die.

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Julian E. Barnes

Will Hamas Say No?

We explain why a cease-fire hasn’t happened.

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Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis

Dairy Workers Are the Most Vulnerable Population to Bird Flu

We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.

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Ross Douthat

Biden Is Still Losing. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like He Isn’t.

It’s good to have a reality check every few months.

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Daniel Currell

2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

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Tracey Tully, Rachel Wisniewski and Erin Schaff

The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift

It has been 34 years since the Battleship New Jersey was last pulled out of the water for maintenance.

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Carl Zimmer

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.

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Bill Friskics-Warren

Duane Eddy, Whose Twang Changed Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 86

A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.

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Ken Belson

NASCAR and Its Race Teams Fight Over the Sport’s Future

Team owners said they needed to share in racing’s financial success, putting them at odds with the privately held business that runs the sport.

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Brian Raftery

His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life.

“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.

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Genevieve Glatsky

Colombia Will Sever Ties With Israel Over Gaza War

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, made the announcement in front of cheering crowds in the capital that had gathered for International Workers’ Day.

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Matthew Goldstein

Truth Social Co-Founder Says Trump Nearly Derailed Deal That Led to Market Windfall

Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president’s social media company, revealed Mr. Trump’s last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.

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Wesley Parnell

The Words That Have Defined This Week in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

Witnesses discussed the salacious and the banal, and the judge warned the defendant he could go to jail.

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Eileen Sullivan

Giuliani’s Bankruptcy Creditors Demand to Know His Spending

Rudy Giuliani promised a bankruptcy court that he would limit his spending, but it didn’t take long before he broke that pledge, and by a lot.

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Annie Karni

In Bid to Oust Johnson, Greene Tries to Reclaim a Powerful Perch on the Fringe

The Georgia Republican’s doomed push to remove the speaker has placed her at odds with most in her party, but it has brought her back to her roots as a norm-busting provocateur.

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