Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers

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22 mai 2025 à 17:34

More than half of the National Science Foundation grants terminated since April fund programs that would help students train in science, engineering and math.

STEM education research focuses on improving how students, from preschool to university, are trained in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Small Jet Crashes in San Diego, Killing Those Aboard, Officials Say

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Par :Talya Minsberg

22 mai 2025 à 17:26

The plane, a Cessna 550, crashed near the Tierrasanta neighborhood and also destroyed several homes. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane.

Emergency personnel work at the crash scene on a street, after a small civilian aircraft went down in a neighborhood in San Diego.

Republicans Pass Strictest Medicaid Work Requirement They’ve Ever Put Forward

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Par :Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff

22 mai 2025 à 17:23

A new hurdle for poor Americans, approved by the House, would cause millions to lose coverage, including many who are working but can’t meet reporting rules.

Protesters shouted “Shame” at lawmakers early Thursday morning after the House passed a bill that included a stringent work requirement for Medicaid.

Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

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Par :Abbie VanSickle

22 mai 2025 à 17:10

In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school.

The Supreme Court rejected a plan on Thursday to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.

Mahmoud Khalil Meets Infant Son Before Immigration Hearing

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Par :Jonah E. Bromwich

22 mai 2025 à 17:06

The activist, who has been detained in Louisiana for two months, was allowed to meet privately with his wife and baby. He is fighting deportation.

Dr. Noor Abdalla gave birth to Deen while her husband was being held in a detention facility in Louisiana.

Winners of an ‘Exclusive Invitation’ to Dine With Trump Will Gather Tonight

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Par :David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton

22 mai 2025 à 17:00

The sale of access to the president to investors in his memecoin has been assailed by Democrats and even some Republicans as unethical.

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts who won a dinner with President Trump by investing in his memecoin will dine at his golf club in Virginia.

OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive New Data Center in the U.A.E.

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Par :Cade Metz and Tripp Mickle

22 mai 2025 à 16:52

As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, speaking on a video call last year with Omar Sultan Al Olama, the minister for artificial intelligence for the United Arab Emirates.

Native Tribes Sue U.S. Over Abuse and Deaths at Boarding Schools

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Par :Jack Healy

22 mai 2025 à 16:39

A class-action lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania argues that Native tribes have never been compensated for the child abuse or for money taken from tribal trust funds to operate the schools.

Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa., around 1903.

Adrienne Adams, Invoking Father’s Death, Says Cuomo Mismanaged Pandemic

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Par :Maya King and Jeffery C. Mays

22 mai 2025 à 16:32

In a deeply personal speech, Ms. Adams, who is running for mayor, will speak about her father’s death from Covid in 2020. She says that as governor, Mr. Cuomo “failed him.”

Adrienne Adams, the City Council speaker, rose to third among Democratic mayoral candidates in a recent poll.

21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer

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Par :Miguel Salazar and Laura Thompson

22 mai 2025 à 15:44

How did streetwear become high fashion? Why are there so many serial killers in the Pacific Northwest? Prize-winning writers tackle these questions, while memoirists consider celibacy, spycraft and Erica Jong.

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky Were Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in D.C. Shooting

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Par :John Yoon · Isabel Kershner and Natan Odenheimer

22 mai 2025 à 15:37

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said. Mr. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring, an official said.

Kid Cudi Recalls His Porsche Being Torched in Sean Combs Trial

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Par :Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

22 mai 2025 à 17:33

The rapper testified on Thursday about the chaotic aftermath of Mr. Combs discovering his relationship with Casandra Ventura.

The rapper Kid Cudi entering court on Thursday morning. Sean Combs’s former girlfriend has said Mr. Combs threatened to blow up Kid Cudi’s car out of jealousy.

4 Summer Books We’re Looking Forward To

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Par :Gilbert Cruz · Claire Hogan and Karen Hanley

22 mai 2025 à 11:01

Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, previews four books we’re anticipating this summer.

New Novels to Read This Summer

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Par :Miguel Salazar and Laura Thompson

22 mai 2025 à 11:00

Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress’s revenge.

Memorial Day Weekend: Tips on Travel Delays, Cancellations and More

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Par :Claire Fahy

21 mai 2025 à 15:48

With airports and airlines experiencing delays and cancellations, and staffing shortfalls at national parks, here’s what to know before you go.

Domestic travel is up this year, and fewer Americans are planning trips abroad this summer, which could lead to more crowding at U.S. destinations.

Alberta Separatism Push Roils Canada

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Par :Vjosa Isai · Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Amber Bracken

22 mai 2025 à 13:41

The country is just emerging from a period of political turmoil with a new prime minister in place. But now Alberta, a conservative Western province, is planning a referendum to break away.

Trucks outside of Calgary, Alberta. The oil-rich province is home to a small but principled minority of separatists.

Here are some of the changes to the House bill that passed on Thursday morning.

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Par :The New York Times

22 mai 2025 à 13:31

Republicans unveiled changes to their wide-ranging tax-and-spending bill late Wednesday night.

As the Soviet Union Fell, Did the K.G.B. Leave Behind a Gift in Brazil?

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Par :Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz

22 mai 2025 à 13:28

A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility.

The K.G.B. headquarters in Moscow in 1982. The culture of Russian espionage often prizes creative long-term planning over immediate expediency.

D.C. Shooting Kills 2 at Jewish Museum, and House Passes Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Bill

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Par :Tracy Mumford · Will Jarvis · Ian Stewart · Jessica Metzger · John Eligon and Ernesto Londoño

22 mai 2025 à 14:33

Plus, breakfast cereals are getting less healthy.

The two victims were aides at the Israeli Embassy.

Deportees Went Where?

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Par :German Lopez

22 mai 2025 à 13:16

We examine the government’s deportation policies.

Deported migrants arriving in Guatemala, in January.

South Africa Wanted to Talk Trade. Then Trump Turned Down the Lights.

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Par :John Eligon

22 mai 2025 à 13:07

In a bruising Oval Office meeting, the visitors’ plan to keep President Trump from focusing on false accusations of white genocide backfired spectacularly.

President Trump with the South African leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The visiting delegation had planned to talk about trade.

What We Know About the Deadly Shooting Outside the Jewish Museum in D.C.

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Par :Claire Moses

22 mai 2025 à 14:38

Two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were killed, officials said. A suspect was in custody.

Outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where a gunman killed two Israeli Embassy aides on Wednesday.

Late Night Thinks Trump’s ‘White Genocide’ Video Was a Bit Much

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Par :Jennifer Vineyard

22 mai 2025 à 11:40

“The guy who couldn’t find South Africa on a map of Africa” subjected its leader to an extremely dubious video about his own country, Jimmy Kimmel said.

Kim Jong-un Vents Fury After Botched Launch of North Korean Destroyer

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Par :Choe Sang-Hun

22 mai 2025 à 11:30

He vows to punish as criminals those responsible for the failure, in which the ship had its hull torn open and ended up on its side in the water.

A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies showed a new navy destroyer on Sunday, before its failed launch in Chongjin, North Korea.

How ‘Daniel’ Led Our Reporters to an Assembly Line for Russian Spies

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Par :Jane Bradley · Michael Schwirtz · Christina Thornell · Laura Salaberry and Nikolay Nikolov

22 mai 2025 à 11:12

For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case.

Kennedy and Trump to Release Report Calling Chronic Disease a Crisis

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Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg

22 mai 2025 à 15:21

The report is already receiving pushback from some Republicans and the agriculture industry over fears about the health secretary’s longtime crusade against agricultural chemicals.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to “fix” the American food supply.

Who is Calley Means, Kennedy’s Health Adviser?

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Par :Dani Blum

22 mai 2025 à 11:03

Calley Means, a health care entrepreneur, coordinated a presidential commission report on chronic diseases in children.

After Biden and Connolly, Some Democrats Wonder: Should Age and Term Limits Exist?

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Par :Katie Glueck

22 mai 2025 à 11:02

After Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and Representative Gerry Connolly’s death, some in the party want more elected officials, as one Democrat put it, to seek an earlier “escape hatch from politics.”

Representative Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, died on Wednesday at 75. He was the sixth House Democrat to die in office in the last year or so.

Is There Really a Chronic Disease Epidemic? It’s Complicated.

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Par :Roni Caryn Rabin

22 mai 2025 à 11:02

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say.

Americans have put on a lot of weight over the decades, but have cut back dramatically on a habit that is the top cause of preventable disease: smoking.

All the Actions the Trump Administration Has Taken Against Harvard

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Par :Michael C. Bender

22 mai 2025 à 11:02

The pressure campaign to try to force the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to fall in line with President Trump’s agenda has sprawled beyond just one singular task force or agency.

The Trump administration’s intensely punitive actions have increasingly focused on Harvard.

Pope Leo’s Doctoral Dissertation: Thoughts on Power and Authority

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Par :Ruth Graham · Elizabeth Dias and Jason Horowitz

22 mai 2025 à 11:02

“There is no room in Augustine’s concept of authority for one who is self-seeking and in search of power over others,” he wrote in the 167-page text.

The doctoral dissertation that Robert Prevost produced in the mid-1980s is one of the most detailed glimpses into the early intellectual life of the man who became Pope Leo XIV.

Deepfake Laws Bring Prosecution and Penalties, but Also Pushback

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Par :Tiffany Hsu

22 mai 2025 à 11:01

Dozens of A.I.-related regulations enacted in the past two years now lead to fines, incarceration and legal challenges from the likes of Elon Musk.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general, David Sunday, has used a new state law to bring charges against a man who is accused of having 29 files of A.I.-generated child sexual abuse material in his home.

Jeff Goldblum Says Jeff Goldblum Is ‘Not a Performance’

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Par :Joe Coscarelli · Jon Caramanica and Chris Maggio

22 mai 2025 à 11:01

In a wide-ranging interview on Popcast, the actor and musician insisted that the immutable Jeff Goldblum persona is “not a performance” — it’s his lifeblood.

“You know who told me to never name drop? Robert De Niro. No, that’s a joke.”

Russia Used Brazil to Create Deep-Cover Spies

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Par :Michael Schwirtz · Jane Bradley · Lucy Jones and Dado Galdieri

21 mai 2025 à 23:42

Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.

Chicago Suburb Plans to Acquire Pope Leo XIV’s Childhood Home

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Par :Matt Yan and Debra Kamin

21 mai 2025 à 21:45

The village of Dolton, Ill., has stepped in to buy the modest house where Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood. It may also use eminent domain.

Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood in this three-bedroom home in Dolton, Ill. The village is seeking to acquire the house.

Israelis Shocked and Horrified by Embassy Shooting

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Par :Aaron Boxerman

22 mai 2025 à 13:33

Political leaders pointed fingers at each other, suggesting that their opponents were responsible for a rise in antisemitism and criticism of Israel.

Police officers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington early on Thursday.

David Souter Knew When to Step Down

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Par :David French

22 mai 2025 à 11:03

David Souter set an example more leaders should follow.

Roof of 14th-Century Drum Tower Partially Collapses in China

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Par :Vivian Wang

22 mai 2025 à 09:39

The Drum Tower in Fengyang County, which dates to the 14th century, is one of many historical sites that have been renovated as cultural tourism has boomed.

How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump

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Par :Ezra Klein

21 mai 2025 à 11:05

Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Jake Tapper examines the people and institutions that made the former president’s re-election campaign possible.

A South African Grift Lands in the Oval Office

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Par :Richard Poplak

22 mai 2025 à 08:47

White Afrikaners are Trump’s kind of oppressed minority.

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