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From $130 dinners to expensive cocktails and even exorbitant movie tickets, a crushing economy in New York City is creating a fresh barrier to love www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Gen Z Can’t Afford a First Date (Gift Article)From $130 dinners to expensive cocktails and even exorbitant movie tickets, a crushing economy in New York City is creating a fresh barrier to love.www.nytimes.comDenmark begins extended military conscription in response to Russia, Trump www.reuters.com/world/denmar...
Denmark begins extended military conscription in response to Russia, TrumpAround 1,600 Danish military recruits on Monday began the country's new extended conscription, embarking on an 11-month service period as Denmark accelerates its defence build-up driven by Arctic sec...www.reuters.comTrump wants Americans to unlearn what they know about the history and legacy of enslavement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a sense of comfort contained in the most reductive and sanitized stories about the US — the bliss of ignorance. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (Gift Article)This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.www.nytimes.comIran and Oman are closing in on an agreement to reopen shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian and American officials, but if the accord goes into effect it could come at a high price — ratifying Iran’s control over the international waterway www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump (Gift Article)The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.www.nytimes.comRFK Jr., his son and Senator Rand Paul Kennedy have all published critical books about Fauci whose sales may have gotten a boost from the negative public attention the men have helped generate against him www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Spotlight on Fauci Said to Boost Book Sales for Kennedy and His Publisher (Gift Article)Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son, and Senator Rand Paul have all written books criticizing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. All were published by a company led by a close Kennedy adviser.www.nytimes.comTrump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch would change the skyline of Washington to such an extent that it would intrude on views at dozens of historic sites around the capital, according to an assessment by National Park Service staff www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places (Gift Article)The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.www.nytimes.comRussia says seven killed and 40 others injured by Ukrainian drone hitting beach www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beachThree children were killed when the drone crashed at a popular resort on the Black Sea.www.bbc.com“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump accuses Jeanine Pirro of ‘folding’ by dropping reflecting pool chargesTrump ‘disappointed’ with US attorney amid reports he’s considering removing her from her postwww.theguardian.comA Salvadoran immigrant, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say (Gift Article)The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.www.nytimes.comHere we go. CNN: Trump is considering removing Pirro over DOJ conclusion that Reflecting Pool problems wasn't vandalism. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Latest News from CNN Politics | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool...edition.cnn.comThe documents suggest the administration was “lying or spreading misinformation about these fantastic public lands” when it justified cutting the protected areas, said Steve Bloch, the legal director at the nonprofit Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...
Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument (Gift Article)President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.www.nytimes.comLoopholes. Blanche’s Pledge to Kill Trump Fund Has Loopholes. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
Live Updates: Trump Calls Iran's Leaders 'Duplicitous'; Blanche Wins Over G.O.P. Holdouts (Gift Article)www.nytimes.comPirro is dropping charges against three more defendants accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Investigators concluded that botched work by a contractor, not vandalism, had been the primary cause of damage to the pool’s blue lining. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases (Gift Article)After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool’s recent problems, the U.S. attorney’s office has dropped several prosecutions.www.nytimes.comA record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this yearFive winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.www.niemanlab.orgBrown University president Christina Paxson to step down at the end of the academic year, after protests, political pressure that led to a Trump deal and a shooting that killed two students www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Brown’s President Will Resign after a Tenure that Included Trump Deal (Gift Article)The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.www.nytimes.comCyclosporiasis is not usually life-threatening. But two people who had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have been affected by the illness caused by the microscopic parasite have died, health officials said www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Two cyclospora-related deaths reported in MichiganThe people who died had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have been affected by the illness caused by the microscopic parasite, state health officials said.www.washingtonpost.com