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Inside a Bronx Elementary School's Fight to Keep Its Students Learning During the Pandemic
In late September New York City reopened public schools with a warning of closure if the city’s COVID-19 positivity rate hit 3%. The New York Times chronicled the journey of Community School 55 in the Bronx and its fight to educate its students during a pandemic.
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New York Times: ‘Caliphate' Podcast Didn't Meet Standards
The New York Times says it was wrong to trust the story of a Canadian man whose claims of witnessing and participating in atrocities as a member of the Islamic State was a central part of its award-winning 2018 podcast “Caliphate.”
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Arrest Made in 2008 Kidnapping of Journalists in Afghanistan
An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times and two other men in Afghanistan
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Understanding the Electoral College Ahead of the Election – and Why It May Be a Relic in Need of Retirement
One person, one vote is the democratic ideal. So why is the American system of voting still based on the Electoral College? In this opinion piece from The New York Times, Jesse Wegman explains the myths that keep us clinging to this system of voting – and why it may be finally time to let them go.
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Trump's Tax Revelation Could Tarnish Image That Fueled Rise
The bombshell revelations that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office and paid no income taxes at all in many others threaten to undercut a pillar of his appeal among blue-collar voters and provide a new opening for his Democratic rival just two days before the first presidential debate.
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NY Times: Trump Avoided Paying Taxes for Years as Losses, Debt Mounted
President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.
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Why You May Want to Move to Duluth, Minnesota: The ‘Most Climate-Proof City' in America
Some parts of the U.S. will have an easier time coping with climate change than others. A New York Times reporter talked to a climate adaptation expert who has decided that Duluth, Minnesota, may be the “most climate-proof city” in America and a prime destination for future “climate migrants.”
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Battling Coronavirus Is Leaving Health Care Workers With Mental Health Scars
Even after coronavirus cases subsided in New York City, health care workers who battled the worst of the pandemic are still struggling with the mental health consequences. The New York Times interviewed NYC health care workers about their long-term emotional struggles.
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How Covid-19 Tore Through One Houston Family
One of the country’s primary coronavirus hotspots is in Houston’s Harris County, Texas, where more than 65,000 cases have been reported. The New York Times followed one Houston family after multiple members caught coronavirus and two were hospitalized.
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New Documentary ‘Father Soldier Son' Is an Intimate Look at a Military Family
A new documentary from Netflix and The New York Times, “Father Soldier Son,” follows a U.S. Army Ranger platoon sergeant and the impact of his deployment to Afghanistan on his family. Directors and Times journalists Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis joined LX News to discuss what they learned about how military service affects families.
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What the Latest NASA Probe is Revealing About the Sun's Surface
The New York Times reports on first images taken of the sun from a joint operation involving the European Space Agency and NASA and what information those images are revealing about the sun’s surface and how it affects us here on Earth.
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Are Gen Z's Parents Sharing Too Much on Social Media?
Studies estimate that 90 percent of American children have a social media presence by age 2. The New York Times captured a few families’ conversations about parenting and “sharenting,” or the overuse of social media by parents, which can lead to identity theft and online fraud.
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How Digital Resistors Beat Censorship To Share Coronavirus Information in China
As the coronavirus outbreak flared in China, censorship rules prevented citizens from sharing information about the crisis. The New York Times talked to some of the digital-savvy citizens who put their own freedom at risk to create a digital archive of the outbreak.
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‘I Want Him to Be Free': A New Mother's Hopes and Fears for Her Black Son
Across the country, parents are having difficult conversations with their children about race and racism. A new mother tells The New York Times her hopes and fears about raising a Black son in America.
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How the Trump Administration Has Turned Guatemala Into an Outsourced Asylum
Guatemala is not the home they chose, but it’s the only home they have thanks to the Trump Administration’s Asylum Cooperation Agreement which has turned the violent and poverty-stricken country into an outsourced asylum, according to the New York Times.
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American Dream or Nightmare? How Europeans View the U.S.
Is the American Dream losing its shine? The New York Times interviewed Europeans about everything from our parental leave policies to our health care to our diets. They weren’t always impressed.
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How One Harlem Funeral Director Cared for His Black Community's Coronavirus Victims
The Black community has been especially hard-hit by coronavirus. In New York City’s neighborhood of Harlem, funeral director Isaiah Owens scrambled at the peak of the outbreak to keep up with the influx of dead — including his own friends — while keeping his commitment to offer dignified open casket funerals for every victim of the virus. The New York...
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We All Want to Be Productive. But How Much Is Too Much?
Today we have access to an array of products and services designed to optimize our time and fill every last moment with productivity. But what are we really getting done? The New York Times explores how much productivity is too much.
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Coping With Coronavirus Grief: A Therapist Explains Why It's OK to Laugh in the Face of Tragedy
A growing number of people around the world are coping with some form of grief in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. For some, it is the grief of losing a loved one or a familiar way of life. It can even be grief over the loss of touch. Celebrity therapist Esther Perel explains for The New York Times how...
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Watch Antoni Porowski of ‘Queer Eye' Challenge Co-Star Tan France to Make a French Omelette
On an early episode of “Queer Eye,” Tan France tried and failed to make a French omelette. Watch his co-star Antoni Porowski challenge him redeem himself by trying the recipe again.