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How Literature Lost Its Mojo

It plays a much smaller role in our national life, and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.

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Justice Dept. Demands Private Patient Info From Trans Youth Medicine Providers

Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable.”
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The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty

Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.

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The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, the director's acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed.
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Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers

The president signaled he would seek to use the threat of steep levies to reorient trade and protect his political allies.

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President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.
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Justice Jackson Says ‘the State of Our Democracy’ Keeps Her Up at Night

At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is happening to the government.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed last year, is the Supreme Court’s most junior member, but she wrote an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions during the court’s most recent term.
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Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83

His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.

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Dave “Baby” Cortez in 1959, the year his instrumental “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart.
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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international investigations of Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave.

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Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, in Copenhagen in February.
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US-Brazil Tariffs: What to Know About Trump’s History With Bolsonaro

The fight is rooted in years of political history between President Trump and the last two presidents of Brazil.

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Then-President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Trump during a visit to the White House in 2019. In Mr. Trump’s first term, few world leaders were a more reliable ally than Mr. Bolsonaro.
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Four More Rescued in Red Sea, as Houthis Vow to Keep Up Attacks

A total of 10 crew members have been rescued so far after Yemeni militants sank a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea.

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This image released by the Houthis’ Ansarullah Media Center on Wednesday shows what the group says is the Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, sinking after it was attacked by the Houthis.
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No, Chemtrails Are Not Real or Causing Floods, E.P.A. Says

The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.

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New E.P.A. websites state that chemtrails are “often inaccurately” conflated with the trails left by jets.
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Iga Świątek Praised Strawberry Pasta. Wimbledon Gasped.

Iga Świątek, a finalist in this year’s tournament, introduced tennis fans to a beloved Polish dish — enter, makaron z truskawkami.

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Iga Świątek, a star tennis player and a semifinalist at this year’s Wimbledon tournament, described strawberry and yogurt pasta as one of her favorite meals.
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Discovery of 178-Year-Old Baptist Antislavery Document Elates Faith Leaders

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost.

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The Rev. Diane Badger unfurls a recently found, 178-year-old antislavery scroll at Grotonwood, the home mission of the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, in Groton, Mass.
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The Original Birkin Sells for $10 Million

A lively bidding war led to the Hermès prototype, which was created for the actress Jane Birkin, selling for far more than expected.

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The Hermès Birkin prototype was created in 1984 for the actress Jane Birkin and has unique details like her initials and a nail clipper that belonged to her.
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