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The Met Will Return 16 Ancient Treasures Tied to Looting
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Friday that it had agreed to return 16 major Khmer era artworks to Cambodia and Thailand. The works are associated with Douglas A.J. Latchford, a Met donor and prolific dealer who was indicted as an illegal trafficker of ancient artifacts shortly before his death in 2020.
Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade
On Feb. 10 last year, Justice Samuel Alito showed his eight colleagues how he intended to uproot the constitutional right to abortion. At 11:16 a.m., his clerk circulated a 98-page draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. After a justice shares an opinion inside the court, other members scrutinize it. Those in the majority can request revisions, sometimes as the price of their votes, sweating sentences or even words.
Poison Gas Hints at Potential for Life on an Ocean Moon of Saturn
Scientists have detected a poison among the spray of molecules emanating from a small moon of Saturn. That adds to existing intrigue about the possibility of life there. The poison is hydrogen cyanide, a colorless gas that is deadly to many Earth creatures. But it could have played a key role in chemical reactions that created the ingredients that set the stage for the advent of life.
Displaced Gaza Strip Residents Put Pressure on Egypt’s Border
The main reason Israel’s heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip for nine weeks has not pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into Egypt is that country’s heavily fortified border and Cairo’s ironclad determination to keep it closed.
Unconventional Trial Judge Could Remove Trump From His N.Y. Empire
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James set out to prove that Donald Trump had committed fraud. Trump took the stand to assail James. Lawyers on both sides screamed that their opponents were out of line and wasting time.
Is Jerome Powell’s Fed Pulling Off a Soft Landing?
The Federal Reserve appears to be creeping closer to an outcome that its own staff economists viewed as unlikely just six months ago: lowering inflation back to a normal range without plunging the economy into a recession.
Political Debate Is Rife on TikTok. Politicians? Not So Much.
President Joe Biden and the White House regularly post to millions of followers on social media, talking about the economy on Facebook, sharing Christmas decorations on YouTube, showcasing pardoned turkeys on Instagram, posting about infrastructure on X, formerly Twitter. They’re even on Threads.
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Abortion Pill Access
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide on the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, the first major case involving abortion on its docket since it overturned the constitutional right to the procedure more than a year ago.
Pharmacies Shared Patient Records Without a Warrant, an Inquiry Finds
Law enforcement agencies have obtained the prescription records of thousands of Americans from the country’s largest pharmacy chains without a warrant, a congressional inquiry found, raising concerns about how the companies handle patient privacy.
As Zelensky Pleads for Aid, Republicans Demand Border Concessions From Biden
WASHINGTON — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine hit a brick wall of resistance from congressional Republicans on Tuesday as he made an urgent plea for quick approval of more aid for his country’s war against Russian invaders, an inauspicious start to a day of meetings on Capitol Hill and at the White House.
Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday that it would not hear a First Amendment challenge to a Washington state law banning professional counseling services intended to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
Record Rent Burdens Batter Low-Income Life
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — To understand how rising rents punish families of modest means, look no further than the queen-size bed that Jessica Jones and her three children share in her mother’s living room, where each night brings a squirming, turning tussle for space in a house with no privacy.
As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment
For years, conservatives have struggled to persuade American voters that the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous. Universities and their students, they’ve argued, have been increasingly clenched by suffocating ideologies — political correctness in one decade, overweening “social justice” in another, “woke-ism” most recently — that shouldn’t be dismissed as academic fads or harmless zeal.
How Hayao Miyazaki’s Films Continue to Take Us to the Skies
Few filmmakers can claim the same heights of whimsy, artistry and storytelling as writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, whose modern-day fables seem to prove that having one’s head in the clouds isn’t a fault, but a virtue — in more ways than one. From his 1988 breakthrough “My Neighbor Totoro” to his 2001 Oscar-winning animated feature, “Spirited Away,” the sky is one of Miyazaki’s favorite playgrounds, where flight is about more than just elevation; it’s about transcendence.
The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.
When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms. “Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said. “I will not allow our city government to profit from our community’s pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents.”
We Can’t Stop Writing Paper Checks. Thieves Love That.
When Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos. One of the checks, which she put in a mailbox on a Lincoln Park street in Chicago, was later stolen and rewritten for $7,200 to someone named Mark Pratt. That drained her business bank account, which meant she couldn’t pay the printer, her monthly payroll taxes or her salespeople.
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