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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership. It was founded in 1851, by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, and was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company.
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More than half of my 20+ years in entertainment journalism was spent at Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, where I rose from reporter to senior writer, became a leading authority on …
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July 14, 2025 "The activists gathered on the steps of the cathedral in the center of Cape Town. Most were older women, faces lined beneath their head wraps."

Judge Fines Lawyers for MyPillow Founder for Error-Filled Court Filing
July 8, 2025 "A federal judge has sent another message to lawyers who may be tempted to use generative artificial intelligence: Always check your work."

At Men’s Fashion Week, Hot Collections (and Temperatures)
July 2, 2025 "It was hot out there at Paris men’s fashion week, where air conditioning is simply not done. Oppressive and banal, the heat was the great equalizer."

It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet
July 2, 2025 "For only the third time, astronomers have found something passing through our solar system that came from outside the solar system."

The New York Times: Neil Sedaka Executed One of Pop’s Great Comebacks. Now, He Just Plays.
At 86, the singer and songwriter is seeing his albums reissued as he occasionally takes the stage to celebrate his decades-old resurrection.

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
June 25, 2025 "In 1947, against the best navigational advice, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures could have reached Polynesia."

A Plan to Sell Federal Land Near This Colorado Town Looks Dead. Here’s Why.
June 24, 2025 "In the wealthy ski towns of Summit County, Colo., where affordable housing is so scarce that some waitresses and ski-lift workers sleep in parking lots, wide-open land is plentiful, as it is across the housing-starved Mountain West."

New Data Shows Just How Powerful the Next Weight-Loss Drugs May Be
June 21, 2025 "Doctors call the new weight-loss drugs revolutionary. Game-changing. Unprecedented. Soon, they may also call them obsolete."

Fifty Years After ‘Jaws,’ Shark Science Is Still Surfacing
June 21, 2025 "When Steven Spielberg’s famous mechanical shark, Bruce, first appeared onscreen in the summer of 1975, Chris Lowe thought it looked fake."

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection
June 18, 2025 "The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials."

To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
June 16, 2025 "As a scientist, Erin Morrow’s focus is cerebral — literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress."

The New York Times: The Musical Mysteries Brian Wilson Left Behind
The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased.


How Grace Potter Lost (and Found) a Solo Album, and a New Life
The Grace Potter and the Nocturnals frontwoman made an LP with T Bone Burnett that got held. Sixteen years later, after a twisting tale of love and music, it’s arriving.

The New York Times: Christy Moore, Ireland’s Folk Music Legend, Is Still Writing History
Even though he just turned 80 and doesn’t leave the country, Moore finds himself at a surprising career peak, performing for generations of fans with an intense connection to his music.

He Spent $12,495 to Be Gene Simmons’s Roadie (and Got More Than Expected)
A father-son pair ponied up for the V.I.P. experience last week and got a glimpse behind the scenes of a rock ’n’ roll show, and into a notorious star’s heart.

About 80 Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested in Columbia Library Takeover
About 80 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested on Wednesday evening after occupying part of the main library on Columbia University’s campus in an attempt to rekindle the protest movement that swept the campus last spring, the police said Thursday morning.The protesters, wearing masks and kaffiyehs, had burst through a security gate …

Introducing a Times Fellow and Dow Jones News Fund Interns
"The Times Fellowship and the internship placements are part of a collection of programs that helps identify and develop early career journalists."

Easing the Pain of Being Laid Off, One Email at a Time
Steve Jaffe was laid off for the first time in 2001. But that wasn’t the last time for Mr. Jaffe, now 52 and a self-employed marketing strategist in Altadena, Calif. He was laid off three more times over the course of his career, he said, and wrote a book about …



A Basketball Star Is Born
Last Sunday, the University of Connecticut basketball player Paige Bueckers achieved what she set out to do when she joined the team almost five years ago: Win an N.C.A.A. championship. After being sidelined by injuries for nearly two seasons, Ms. Bueckers, a 23-year-old point guard, led the Huskies to a …

Following a Nigerian Thread, a Designer Unwraps an African Region
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week.Lani Adeoye is a globe-straddler.The designer moves between teaching design at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design in New York City, and managing projects at her company, Studio-Lani, in her hometown, Lagos, Nigeria.This week, Ms. Adeoye, 35, …

What’s His Age Again? Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus (Now 53) Looks Back.
The band’s singer and bassist recounts his personal struggles and the dramatic ins and outs of the trio’s history in a new memoir, “Fahrenheit-182.”

New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia
As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, the White House defended the arrest and rebuked the school for what it called lack of cooperation.The activist, Mahmoud Khalil, was a leader of student protests …

Among American Jews, a Schism Over Pro-Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest
The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who gained prominence amid that campus’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations has divided the American Jewish community, which finds itself trying to reconcile a longstanding focus on Jewish safety and support for Israel with a historical commitment to civil liberties.Immigration authorities’ detention of the …

Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
The silence grows louder every day.Fired federal workers who are worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire.

The New York Times: Benmont Tench, Still a Heartbreaker, Is Carrying on Solo
Ninety pounds, the approximate weight of a Farfisa organ, nearly kept Benmont Tench from his destiny.

New York Times: Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels
A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience.

How to Sleep Well When You Work Odd Hours
When Samantha Shaw took a new job as a research technician for a sleep-related study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2021, she was excited to work on a cause that felt personal.Since high school, she said, she had trouble falling and staying asleep, so she jumped at the chance …