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How India Is Embracing Trump’s Second Term
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India appears to be welcoming Trump’s return to the White House, which may embolden nationalist leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Republicans Maintain House Majority, Clinching Trifecta of Government Control
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In yet another blow to Democrats, Donald Trump will begin his presidency with a trifecta of Republican control in Washington.
Bluesky Adds 1 Million New Users Since U.S. Election, as People Seek Alternatives to X
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Across the platform, new users—among them journalists, left-leaning politicians and celebrities—have shared that they’re looking forward to using a space free from advertisements and hate speech.
Protests Erupt in Paris Over Pro-Israel Gala Organized by Far-Right Figures
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The demonstrations came on the eve of a high-stakes soccer match at France’s national stadium against the Israeli national team, overshadowed by tensions around the wars in the Middle East.
What Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Pick for Israel Ambassador, Has Said About the Middle East
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He has called for a “one-state solution” and doesn’t accept the term “Palestinians.”
What to Know About Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
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After his selection by Trump, Gaetz resigned from Congress, ending an ongoing ethics probe into allegations against him of child sex trafficking.
Watch: Donald Trump’s New Administration So Far
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Here are the key appointments, nominations, and staffing decisions announced by the Trump Administration.
In Thune, Senate Republicans Picked The Most Anti-MAGA Leader In The Mix
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John Thune was already one of the most powerful people in Washington
Birth Control and Abortion Pill Requests Have Surged Since Trump Won the Election
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OB-GYN Dr. Grace Ferguson said some patients are scheduling IUD insertions or stockpiling emergency contraception.
Sleep Doctors Share the 1 Tip That’s Changed Their Lives
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These are the tips that sleep experts actually practice themselves.
13 Things to Say When Someone Asks Why You Haven’t Had a Baby Yet
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“Wow! I just haven't had the time—good thing you reminded me!”
Bad Sisters Needed That Brutal Twist
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The second season's two-part premiere ended with a shocking death. Here's why the twist works so well.
Trump Supporters Knew Exactly Who They Were Voting For
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Rhetoric about Democratic shortcomings discounts Trump voters' agency and their desire for him to be President
Everything You Know About the Stanford Prison Experiment Is Wrong
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A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study.
Emilia Pérez Is an Exuberant Ode to Human Possibility
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Jacques Audiard’s operatic musical stars Zoe Saldaña's, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez in an act of radical imagination.
Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA
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Trump's first-term expansion in space will likely increase during his second presidency.
Timothy West, Acclaimed British Star of Stage and Screen, Dies Aged 90
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During his long career, West was a regular presence on stage and screen, his versatility allowing him to play a broad range of characters.
The Woman Whose Crusade Gave Today’s Book-Banning Moms a Blueprint
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Norma Gabler's work in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s foreshadowed today's campaigns.
Biden is Sending Aid to Help Ukraine Keep Fighting Next Year, Blinken Says
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The Biden Administration is determined in its final months to help ensure that Ukraine can keep fighting off Russia's full-scale invasion.
Martyr!
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In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was…
Wandering Stars
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Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of the violence he has endured. To better understand what Orvil is up against, Orange takes us back to 1864 to…
Shanghailanders
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Juli Min’s debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese French wife Eko, their precocious eldest daughters Yumi and Yoko, and the baby of the family, aspiring actress Kiko. To…
The Black Utopians
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What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It’s the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson’s The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores the history and meaning of Black freedom movements in the U.S. The topic is a personal one for the author,…
The Mighty Red
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Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This is much to the chagrin of Kismet’s supers
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
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In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just to get out of that miserable state.” In Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten lays out her journey to…
The Wide Wide Sea
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With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain James Cook. In recent years, Sides writes, the enigmatic British explorer and gifted cartographer has become, in some respects
Health and Safety
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New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed antidepressant that “confirmed my love of stimulants,” Witt decided to try ayahuasca, a South American psychoactive beverage, for the first…
Slaveroad
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John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir, autofiction, history, and poetry, Slaveroad begins by tracing the journeys of people like William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of ensl
My Friends
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Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they got there. Decades earlier, Khaled, the book’s somber protagonist, found kinship with Hosam, an enigmatic writer and fellow Libyan disside
How Washington Is Reacting to Trump’s Pick of Fox News’ Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary
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Questions have been raised about the Fox News host's experience.