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Pete McCloskey, Republican Who Tried to Unseat Nixon, Is Dead at 96
A liberal, antiwar California congressman, he had defeated Shirley Temple Black in a special election before launching a long-shot bid…
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The Tawdry Decade of Trump Could Desensitize Any Juror
Not long after Donald Trump was criminally charged in four state and federal cases last year, many people who want…
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Dick Rutan, Who Flew Around the World Without Refueling, Dies at 85
His nine-day voyage, in a plane designed by his brother that resembled a child’s glider but had wings longer than…
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When There’s Nowhere for Your Children to Be Safe
These mothers keep their phones on silent because their nerves are fried. Every time they hear a ring, they know…
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Milton Diamond, Sexologist and Advocate for Intersex Babies, Dies at 90
He pushed back against doctors who recommended surgery on infants born with ambiguous genitalia, arguing for acceptance of diversity.
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Google Unveils A.I. for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.
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Ian Gelder, ‘Game of Thrones’ Actor, Dies at 74
He played Kevan Lannister, the brother of feared patriarch Tywin, and was diagnosed with bile duct cancer five months ago.
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Afraid of Cicadas? This Entomologist Wants to Change That.
Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse.
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Three Reasons the Campus Protests Are Part of the Problem
Readers have been asking me, and I have been asking myself of late, how I feel about the campus demonstrations…
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He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.
Glenn Loury thought maybe the world — maybe he — had been wrong about Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted…