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Steven Kurutz and Jane Beiles

Famed Long Pond Studio Breaks Free of Design Rules

Aaron Dessner’s Long Pond recording studio breaks a lot of design rules. It’s why musicians like Taylor Swift have put it on the map.

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Pete McKenzie

The Tiny Nation at the Vanguard of Mining the Ocean Floor

Below the waters of the Cook Islands, population 15,000, lie minerals used to power electric cars. Extracting them could bring riches, but many say it’s a bad idea.

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Elisabetta Povoledo and Alessandro Grassani

Milan Cracks Down on Nightlife After Campaign to Lure Visitors

City officials worked to make Milan attractive to visitors, but now that some neighborhoods are overwhelmed by rowdy crowds and noise, they’re trying to scale back.

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Alexander Nazaryan

The Ever-Resilient Pupfish Makes a Comeback in Death Valley

The spring population of the critically endangered species is at a 25-year high, a surprising rebound in a tiny desert cave.

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Jeré Longman

Fencing Rattled by Suspensions and Accusations Ahead of Olympics

Concerns about refereeing integrity and preferential treatment for top saber competitors have cast a shadow over a sport decided by the finest of margins.

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Nicholas Kristof

Reasons to Have Hope

After decades of reporting on the front lines, I am awed by the material and moral progress the world has made.

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Gary Sernovitz

Campus Protesters Are Demanding Colleges Divest From Israel. That Is Intellectually Impossible.

Colleges cannot accede to student protesters’ demands that they jettison investments because of the war in Gaza.

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Jessica Bennett

Donald Trump, Family Man?

Will the jury buy the image that the ex-president and his allies are selling?

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Michelle Cottle

The Part of the Kristi Noem Saga That I Can’t Shake

It’s about her place in the G.O.P., but about the party, too.

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Alexandra Jacobs

He Sang ‘What a Fool Believes.’ But Michael McDonald Is in on the Joke.

The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.

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Stefanos Chen

A Plan to Help Harlem Students Build Wealth: Start Them Off With $10,000

The Harlem Children’s Zone is investing millions of dollars to create savings plans for students in its charter schools and, eventually, nationwide.

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Coral Davenport

10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean

Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning them out.

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Lisa Lerer

Harris Warns of Supreme Court’s Future Rulings: ‘I Worry About Fundamental Freedoms’

In an interview with The Times, Vice President Kamala Harris deepened her criticism of the conservative justices who overturned Roe and singled out Clarence Thomas’s views on other settled cases.

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Carol Rosenberg and Natalie Keyssar

A Former Guantánamo Prisoner’s New Life

In a quick but eventful year since his release, Majid Khan reunited with his wife, met his daughter who was born after his capture and added to his family with a baby son.

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Shawn Hubler, Stephanie Saul and Jill Cowan

U.S.C. President Censured by Academic Senate After Weeks of Turmoil

Carol Folt had been under fire for canceling a valedictorian’s speech and calling in the police, who cleared an encampment arrested dozens of protesters.

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Karen Yourish, Danielle Ivory, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Alex Lemonides

How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel

Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.

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Heather Knight and Campbell Robertson

Berkeley and NYC School Districts React After House Antisemitism Hearing

For some in Berkeley, Calif., New York City and Montgomery County, Md., their responses about the hearing on antisemitism appeared to hinge on their opinions going in.

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Alan Blinder, Annie Karni and Dana Goldstein

In Antisemitism Hearing, Public School Leaders Show Up University Presidents

Mixing it up a bit, schools leaders showed, can go far toward neutralizing a Congress with a craving to make a point.

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Vivian Yee, Emma Bubola and Liam Stack

Israel’s Shutdown of Al Jazeera Highlights Long-Running Tensions

The network will keep covering the war in Gaza, but it will be harder for Israelis to watch. Israel calls the network a security threat, while Al Jazeera says Israel wants to conceal its brutality.

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Wes Davis

WiiM announces two new wireless audiophile streamers — one with a touchscreen

WiiM has announced two new audiophile streaming devices for the high end of its wireless audio streaming devices. Called the WiiM Ultra and the WiiM Amp Pro, both support AirPlay 2, Chromecast, DLNA, and several other streaming protocols and will be available this summer.

Both devices are equipped with a 32-bit / 384kHz ES9038 Q2M Sabre DAC. (Last year’s Wiim Amp used an ES9018 Sabre DAC instead). They also use Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 for wireless connectivity, and they each...

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