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Parents Dance Like It’s the ’80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House
Videos of parents demonstrating their moves have been a surprise hit on a site where youth rules — perhaps because…
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6 Podcasts About the Joys and Terrors of Air Travel
In this month’s roundup, true stories of air disasters (and why they’re so rare), as well as love letters to…
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The N.C.A.A. Agreed to Pay Players. It Won’t Call Them Employees.
The argument is the organization’s attempt to maintain the last vestiges of its amateur model and to prevent college athletes…
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NASA Astronauts to Wait Another Week for Boeing Starliner Launch
Officials from NASA and Boeing say they have worked out a solution to a helium leak that has kept the…
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Menendez Judge Bars Some Prosecution Evidence in Bribery Trial
The ruling could undermine prosecutors’ ability to prove certain elements of the bribery case against Senator Robert Menendez, a New…
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The Emails at the Heart of the Government’s Ticketmaster Case
Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, is accused of violating antitrust laws. The Justice Department drew on the concert behemoth’s…
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John Koerner, Bluesman Who Inspired a Young Bob Dylan, Dies at 85
A spindly guitarist nicknamed Spider, Mr. Koerner was Mr. Dylan’s first friend in the scruffy world of Minneapolis bohemia where…
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Biden’s Chance to Do the Right Thing in Gaza
In a speech in Warsaw two years ago, President Biden declared that “the great battle for freedom” is one “between…
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Want to Better Understand America? Consider All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp.
The great economist George Stigler wrote a paper called “The Cost of Subsistence” that calculated the minimum cost of food…
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Fred Roos, Casting Director and Coppola Collaborator, Dies at 89
Widely considered to have the best eye for talent in Hollywood, he shared the best-picture Oscar with Francis Ford Coppola…