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Citing Safety, New York Moves Mentally Ill People Out of the Subway
Medical workers and police officers are removing people suffering from psychiatric distress. The most troubled are forced to the hospital.
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Dennis Thompson, Drummer and Last Remaining Member of MC5, Dies at 75
The musician brought his hard-hitting style to the band, which helped lay the foundation of American punk rock and is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Tense Campuses and Police Barricades Mark New York’s Commencement Season
The first graduation celebrations will begin on Friday as the city’s colleges and universities reel from conflict over pro-Palestinian demonstrations and hundreds of student arrests.
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No Encampment, No Tents: Where Princeton’s Protest Found Its Gravity
After a sit-in and the occupation of a campus building, about a dozen demonstrators have turned to a hunger strike.
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Former White House Aide Returns to Stand in Trump’s Criminal Trial
The aide, Madeleine Westerhout, testified about a key Oval Office meeting between Donald J. Trump and Michael D. Cohen, his former fixer.
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Falcon Cam: Reality TV for Bird Lovers
A falcon has laid two eggs in a nest in Lower Manhattan. A camera is filming the wait for them to be hatched.
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Trump Is Not Invincible
In the folk wisdom of recent American politics, Donald Trump is a figure of herculean invulnerability to traditional scandal. What lands as a crippling blow to most politicians leaves nary a scratch on Trump, who effortlessly deflected the slings and ...
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Watch Out for the Better Mother
Sometimes, particularly in a public parenting setting, I will play the Better Mother. This is the mother who stands attentively outside a music audition, serenely listening to the notes emanating from within. She realizes the parent next to her said ...
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After College Presidents, Republicans Are Coming for Liberal Donors
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week, the Republican senator Josh Hawley demanded a federal investigation into dark money groups subsidizing “pro-terrorist student organizations” holding anti-Israel protests on college campuses ...
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Bird Flu Is Our Fault
We don’t yet know if H5N1 bird flu will spill over from animals to infect a large number of humans. Based on the few cases of transmission so far, the World Health Organization has expressed concerns that infection in humans “can cause severe disease ...