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What music do Americans love the most? We made a playlist for each neighborhood. nyti.ms/2vevQOO
Live Review: K-Pop Superstars BTS Lit Up Citi Field’s Stage. Their Fans Did the Rest.
Leni Robredo, the only woman on the ballot in the Philippines election, is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte and a frequent target of his insults.
Thousands of young people, some too young to vote, have been cheering her on. #Halalan2022 nyti.ms/3P9bNKj
A landlord with 18 apartment buildings in New York City waived April rent for his 200 to 300 tenants because of the coronavirus pandemic. “I told them just to look out for your neighbor and make sure that everyone has food on their table," he said. nyti.ms/2JDUuQO
Teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for President Trump's campaign rally as a prank to ruin the event. nyti.ms/2YhJG35
Exclusive: The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades.
It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
More than 100,000 people attended a peace rally and demonstration in Berlin on Sunday in support of Ukraine. Organizers, which included peace and environmental groups, unions and churches, had expected 20,000 to gather. nyti.ms/3vobDqY
Tom Hanks had a cold, or so he thought. In the U.S., those symptoms may not be enough to get tested for the coronavirus. But in Australia, testing is free and widely available, thanks to early and coordinated planning for a pandemic.
Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, BTS.
IN GRAND CENTRAL. nyti.ms/2SYA2Q8
Breaking News: President Trump must turn over eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors, a federal judge ruled nyti.ms/2OsksdW
Leni Robredo, the outgoing vice president of the Philippines, acknowledged on Friday her loss in one of the most consequential presidential elections in the nation’s history, urging her supporters to accept the results and to keep fighting disinformation. nyti.ms/3MkBx4E
Breaking News: Amy Cooper, the white woman in Central Park who called the police on a Black bird watcher, will be charged with filing a false report nyti.ms/3gzP9bA
Mr. Pickles, a critically endangered species of tortoise at the Houston Zoo, finally became a father at the age of 90. He and his partner, Mrs. Pickles, welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño.
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A drone operator shot a short video in a Minneapolis bowling alley to rally support for the business. It was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media and won high praise from Hollywood directors. nyti.ms/3l80Nhv
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One of the first school districts in the U.S. to reopen its doors during the pandemic did not even make it a day before a call came from the county health department — a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive nyti.ms/30jTV7Y
The “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness opens up to The New York Times about being an addict, a sexual abuse survivor and H.I.V. positive nyti.ms/30FXe6m
Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." nyti.ms/3oxUgAy
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Minor correction but the WHO didn’t “approve” the vaccine — they “recommend” it. The WHO doesn’t have authority to approve vaccines.
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Phase 3 results of this vaccine were first published and the vaccine was approved by EMA in 2015.
President Trump has sold himself as a self-made billionaire but a Times investigation found that he received more than $400 million from his father’s empire, much of it through dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud. nyti.ms/2ycj05o
Breaking News: The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, making her the first Black woman elevated to the Supreme Court. nyti.ms/3LO1UPD
Stacey Abrams spent a decade building up Democratic infrastructure in Georgia. Now, as Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock look to flip Georgia’s two Senate seats, many see her as the person most responsible for its shifting political landscape.
President Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, and nothing in 10 of the prior 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.
Read the takeaways from our exclusive look at decades of Trump’s tax records.
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Tom Hanks asks in a guest essay: "How different would perspectives be had we all been taught about Tulsa in 1921, even as early as the fifth grade? Today, I find the omission tragic, an opportunity missed, a teachable moment squandered."
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Breaking News: A grand jury in New York has voted to indict Donald Trump over his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. nyti.ms/3ZzQXrb
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Breaking News: "The case was made." Mitt Romney will vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power, the first Republican to support removing him from office in the impeachment trial.
Students at Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri, walked out of class on Tuesday to march for Ralph Yarl, their Black classmate who was shot twice on Thursday by an 84-year-old white man after going to the wrong address to pick up his brothers.
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Breaking News: A veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledged to dismantle the city’s Police Department, vowing to create a new public safety system nyti.ms/3cJtAmN
Breaking News: Astronomers have found a potential sign of life in the clouds of Venus, a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Breaking News: Joe Biden has taken the lead in Georgia as the state continues to tally votes. A win there would leave him one electoral vote short of the presidency.
Patron, an expert bomb finder and perhaps Ukraine's smallest fighter, has been honored by the country's president.
He has found more than 200 Russian explosives, President Volodymyr Zelenksy said, and also helps children learn about mine safety. nyti.ms/3wgmLET
A black bear known as Hank the Tank has broken into more than two dozen California homes since July, officials say. Paintballs, bean bags, sirens and Tasers cannot keep the 500-pound animal from seeking leftover pizza and other food. nyti.ms/3s7KLsY
Breaking News: Joe Biden defeated President Trump and has been elected the next president of the United States. He clinched the Electoral College with Pennsylvania. nyti.ms/3kcxM1X
Greta Thunberg speaks at the UN climate summit: "You all come to us young people for hope? How dare you!"
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At least four boats sank at an event promoted as a Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis in Texas on Saturday, the authorities said. nyti.ms/3hY2Imt
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced this week that she was cancer-free
Indonesia's police force is highly militarized, poorly trained in crowd control, and in nearly all instances, has never been held accountable for missteps, experts say.
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Volunteer fighters armed with assault rifles patrolled central Kyiv on Friday, ready to defend their country.
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A double rainbow shimmered across the crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace. When the news of Queen Elizabeth II's death broke, after a hush, people broke into "God Save the Queen." nyti.ms/3x8v0nI
Breaking News: Pelé is dead at 82. One of the greatest soccer players of all time, he was a transformative figure in 20th-century sports. nyti.ms/3hU7oPD
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Kim Nam-joon
Kim Seok-jin
Min Yoon-gi
Jung Ho-seok
Park Ji-min
Kim Tae-hyung
Jeon Jung-kook
That’s an introduction to BTS. But to understand the world’s biggest boy group and its management company, now worth $4 billion, you need to meet their ARMY. 💜
Marília Mendonça, one of the most popular Brazilian pop singers who was iconic in a type of country music called sertanejo, was killed on Friday in a small plane crash. She was 26.
Breaking News: Brazil has ousted President Jair Bolsonaro, rebuking the far-right incumbent and electing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former leftist leader known as Lula.
Breaking News: President Trump must provide his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney, a federal judge ruled again, rejecting the president’s arguments.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, has won re-election in the 14th District in New York. nyti.ms/3G0M2cI
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Road service employees are dismantling road signs across Ukraine in order to complicate navigation for the invading Russian troops. nyti.ms/35wjBTO
A California bakery spent a month making a 6-foot recreation of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, made entirely of bread. The mother-and-daughter duo behind the creation called him "Pan Solo." nyti.ms/3EHVqS0
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Joe Biden has been elected the next president of the United States. nyti.ms/357eQxu
Breaking News: Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Elon Musk took over, researchers found.
Musk “sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” the head of one of the research groups said.
Breaking News: Virginia's governor plans to order the removal of a monument to the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, an official said. nyti.ms/3cx3UtB
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On his first day in office, President Biden retracted a decision by the Trump administration to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Dr. Anthony Fauci will lead the U.S. delegation.
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From : If Vinicius Junior were to decide he wants to leave Real Madrid due to the regular racist abuse he suffers, and the lack of support he receives, Spanish football will lose its brightest talent, and it will be 100% responsible. nyti.ms/42ZiFjS
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Michelle Yeoh won the best actress for her role in “Everything, Everywhere All at Once.” The victory makes her the first Asian star to win best actress in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards. nyti.ms/3mLf1tN
Black and Latino people in the U.S. are 3 times as likely to contract the coronavirus than their white neighbors — and nearly twice as likely to die, according to new data we obtained by suing the CDC
Officials in Seoul said that at least 120 people were dead and 100 others were injured after a stampede in the South Korean capital's popular Itaewon district, where crowds had gathered to celebrate Halloween. nytimes.com/live/2022/10/2
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Breaking News: Argentina legalized abortion, delivering a landmark victory to Latin America’s growing women’s-rights movement.
Beto O’Rourke, who nearly unseated Senator Ted Cruz in 2018, has organized volunteers to make over 784,000 wellness calls to senior citizens in Texas this week. nyti.ms/2NkGTmU
Breaking News: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, ensuring Democratic control over at least one chamber of Congress. nyti.ms/3hCQfJI
Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products freely available to all who need them, after Parliament voted unanimously to pass a landmark piece of legislation on Tuesday. nyti.ms/3pRAa2i
Russia is aiding President Trump in the 2020 election, intelligence officials told lawmakers. Trump complained Democrats might exploit the news.
Breaking News: In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court found that a 1964 civil rights law protects L.G.B.T. workers from discrimination
Francia Márquez, an environmental activist, became a phenomenon in Colombia, mobilizing decades of voter frustration. She became the country’s first Black vice president on Sunday.
Photo: Federico Rios for The New York Times
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Breaking News: Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the U.S.'s largest sports retailers, will stop selling assault-style rifles and require gun buyers to be 21 nyti.ms/2oDqARJ
Breaking News: Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes, a stunning downfall for a Hollywood mogul whose abuse of women ignited #MeToo
Breaking News: Satellite images refute Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine's capital, occurred after its soldiers had left town, a New York Times analysis found. nyti.ms/3DEfL8c
Breaking News: Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle is being influenced by forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science but which may nevertheless affect the nature and evolution of the universe.
Breaking News: The FDA authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable Americans to get it within days. nyti.ms/3qRHk79
Catherine, Princess of Wales, now the queen-in-waiting, wore an Alexander McQueen gown to the coronation of King Charles III. She chose not to wear a fancy tiara, but rather a crystal floral headpiece, and earrings that had belonged to Princess Diana. nyti.ms/3LZa9vc
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2 minutes and 3 seconds — that's how long a local TV news reporter from California clocked the fly’s screen time on Mike Pence’s head during the #VPDebate.
He sniffed out 39 land mines and 28 explosives in Cambodia.
He received a medal for "lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty."
He is a rat. 🐀🎖
Breaking News: In a blow to the NFL, Colin Kaepernick will be allowed to continue his case accusing the league of collusion to keep him off the field
The American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who lost her spot on the U.S. team for the 2020 Summer Olympics after she tested positive for marijuana, questioned why the Russian skater Kamila Valieva could compete after failing a doping test. nyti.ms/3oNzI6a
The findings of a new study that looked at the heart of a swimmer vs. the heart of a runner underscored how sensitive our bodies are to different types of exercise
The valedictorian at a Dallas high school scrapped her approved graduation speech and took aim at Texas’s abortion law. She called the new law, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, “a war on my body and a war on my rights.” nyti.ms/2S0M9ic
There's no evidence of voter fraud, U.S. election officials say nyti.ms/3eQmteV
Finland will now give all new parents the same amount of leave — 164 days, paid — regardless of gender. Single parents will also have the right to use the parental leave quotas of both parents.
The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, who dismissed coronavirus concerns on-air as “another attempt to impeach the president,” has been removed from her prime-time slot for the foreseeable future, the network said on Friday nyti.ms/38UYSVH
Washing your hands is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself and others from illness. Here’s the technique experts say is best. nyti.ms/3aWKk9Q
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When President Trump leaves office, he will lose the constitutional protection from prosecution afforded to a sitting president, making him more vulnerable than ever to an investigation into his business practices and taxes. nyti.ms/2GWUXQn
Breaking News: Iran’s top nuclear scientist was fatally shot in northern Iran, state media reported. He was seen as the force behind its nuclear weapons program. nyti.ms/2KFUe7D
President-elect Joe Biden won Nevada, putting him further above the 270-vote threshold needed to win the presidency. nyti.ms/3kcxxEe
In an open letter aimed at Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants, Facebook employees decried the company’s policy of allowing politicians to post any claim, even false ones, in ads, saying it was “a threat to what FB stands for”
Yakei, a female macaque in a nature reserve in Japan, violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in the reserve’s 70-year history.
She presides over 677 monkeys, but a messy love triangle could endanger her status. nyti.ms/3KyneIS
Leni Robredo, the outgoing vice president of the Philippines, acknowledged on Friday her loss in one of the most consequential presidential elections in the nation’s history, urging her supporters to accept the results and to keep fighting disinformation. nyti.ms/39gWheO
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She quit her job. He got night goggles. They searched 57 days for their dog. This was the moment they were reunited.
Read the full story. nyti.ms/2AEYlZC
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Breaking News: Michelle Wu will be Boston's next mayor, breaking barriers as the first woman and the first person of color elected to the role. nyti.ms/31eOHx9
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a ceremony in which the first woman of color to become vice president will take her oath from the first woman of color to sit on the Supreme Court.
"The president is here." President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine posted a video on social media showing him standing alongside other government officials, saying that the country’s leaders had not fled Kyiv as Russian forces entered the city. nyti.ms/3hkAVxK
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The village in India where Kamala Harris’s maternal grandfather was born, Thulasendrapuram, came together in a special ceremony at a Hindu temple to wish Harris luck today. nyti.ms/3jR74vF
In Shanghai, revelers welcomed in the new year with a drone display forming various shapes and patterns against the night sky over the Huangpu River nyti.ms/2QAiW8R
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Breaking News: Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the 2020 race. He rose to the top tier of the Democratic presidential field but struggled to win broad support.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that he remained in the country despite rumors that he had fled. “The enemy has marked me as target No. 1,” he said, “my family as target No. 2.”
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Breaking News: The Texas parole board unanimously voted to recommend that the governor delay Rodney Reed’s execution after new evidence drew attention to the case nyti.ms/2NT0x77
The New York Times has a new marketing campaign: "The truth is more important now than ever."
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Breaking news: More than 100 people died after a soccer game in Indonesia as the police tried to quell a riot with tear gas. Many were trampled trying to flee.
Murphy, a bald eagle at a bird sanctuary in Missouri, had been taking care of a rock. His keepers did not have the heart to separate them.
Then when a orphaned eaglet needed a dad, Murphy was ready to step up. nyti.ms/41xJgDv
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