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  1. The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

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    Guests at a 1925 breakfast party for Langston Hughes, hosted by Regina Andrews (then Anderson) and Ethel Nance (then Ray) at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue. Hughes is second from left.
    Guests at a 1925 breakfast party for Langston Hughes, hosted by Regina Andrews (then Anderson) and Ethel Nance (then Ray) at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue. Hughes is second from left.
    CreditSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library

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  1. The New York Times News Quiz, March 22, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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inEducation: American Government

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  1. Congress Passes Spending Bill in Wee Hours to Fend Off Shutdown

    After hours of delay, the Senate overwhelmingly voted for the $1.2 trillion bill to fund more than half of the government, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk.

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    “Democracy is messy,” Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday.
    CreditKent Nishimura for The New York Times
  2. U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly

    The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.

     By David McCabe and

    By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field where it grants its products and services access to core features that it denies rivals.
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  3. The United States Is Living Under a ‘Nuclear Monarchy’

    Should one person have that much power?

     By W.J. Hennigan and

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  4. Leaders Release $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill as Congress Races to Avert Shutdown

    The bipartisan bill emerged one day before the federal funding deadline, and it was not clear whether Congress could complete it in time to avoid a partial shutdown after midnight on Friday.

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    Speaker Mike Johnson during a news conference at the Capitol on Wednesday. House Republican leaders were signaling that they intended to hold a vote on the bill on Friday.
    CreditHaiyun Jiang for The New York Times

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inEducation: Biology

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  1. Toddlers Smell Like Flowers, Teens Smell ‘Goatlike,’ Study Finds

    Two musky steroids, and higher levels of odorous acids, distinguish the body odors of adolescents and tots.

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    Scientists collected body odor samples from 18 young children and 18 teenagers.
    CreditCatharine Bott
  2. A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

    Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?

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    CreditDoug Chayka
  3. Subterranean ‘Baby Dragons’ Are Revealed to Sneak to the Surface

    Scientists never imagined that the blind cave salamanders called olms willingly left their caves. But at numerous aboveground springs, there they were.

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    Adult olm active during daytime in a spring in the municipality of Doberdò del Lago, Italy.
    CreditMatteo Riccardo Di Nicola
  4. Scientists Discover 100 New Marine Species in New Zealand

    The findings, from the largely uncharted waters of Bounty Trough, show that “we’ve got a long way to go in terms of understanding where life is found in the ocean,” a researcher said.

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    A potentially new species of elusive deep-sea squid found by scientists who were working to identify new marine life as part of the Ocean Census project.
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inEducation: Computer Science

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  1. These Mobile Games Are for the Birds

    How do you design an app for a parrot? Consider games that are “made to be licked,” a new study suggests.

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  2. Apple and Google Are Discussing a Deal to Bring Generative A.I. to iPhones

    A partnership would extend the long relationship between the companies that has helped deliver everything from maps to search on Apple’s devices.

     By Tripp MickleNico Grant and

    Google’s discussions to provide generative A.I. capabilities for the iPhone would be the latest example of it filling a gap in Apple’s own products.
    CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times
  3. The Department of Homeland Security Is Embracing A.I.

    The agency will be the first in the federal government to roll out a comprehensive plan to integrate the technology into a variety of uses, from fighting crime to helping disaster survivors.

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    The Department of Homeland Security is moving quickly to adopt artificial intelligence, said Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary.
    CreditValerie Plesch for The New York Times
  4. A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

    Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?

     By

    CreditDoug Chayka

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inEducation: English

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  1. The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

     By

    Guests at a 1925 breakfast party for Langston Hughes, hosted by Regina Andrews (then Anderson) and Ethel Nance (then Ray) at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue. Hughes is second from left.
    CreditSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library
  2. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

    Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

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  3. 22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’

    Because we could all use a laugh.

     By Dwight GarnerAlexandra JacobsJennifer Szalai and

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  4. The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned

    I ask my writing students to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

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    CreditAndré Derainne

inEducation: Environmental Science

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  1. Where the Wild Things Went During the Pandemic

    A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.

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    A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that wild animals became more active during pandemic lockdowns.
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  2. Climate Change Made an Early Heat Wave in West Africa 10 Times as Likely

    Temperatures in the region rose above 40 degrees Celsius in February, with humidity pushing the heat index even higher.

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    Henock Inonga, of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national soccer team, cooled off before a match with Ivory Coast in Abidjan on Feb. 7. Players in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament had to take extra breaks to hydrate because of the heat wave.
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  3. When We See the Climate More Clearly, What Will We Do?

    A new satellite will show us the full extent of methane emissions. Will we act?

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  4. Geologists Make It Official: We’re Not in an ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch

    The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history.

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    We’re still in the Holocene.
    CreditChalinee Thirasupa/Reuters
  5. Utility-Caused Wildfires Are Becoming a National Problem

    Climate change is raising the risk of blazes that are started by power lines and other utility equipment in many parts of the U.S. besides California.

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    Workers replaced power lines that the Smokehouse Creek Fire damaged last month in Fritch, Texas.
    CreditDesiree Rios for The New York Times

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inEducation: Finance and Economics

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  1. In the Markets, a Tug of War Between Big Tech and the Fed

    On Wall Street, excitement about A.I. outweighs concern about interest rates. But rocketing stocks could make it tough for the Federal Reserve to cut rates.

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  2. For Women’s Basketball, Caitlin Clark’s Lasting Impact May Be Economic

    People have flocked to watch the Iowa star on TV and in person at a time when her sport is more valuable than it ever was before.

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    Tickets to Caitlin Clark’s games this season were nearly 200 percent more expensive than last season.
    CreditGeoff Stellfox/The Gazette, via Associated Press
  3. States Have Spent $25 Billion to Woo Hollywood. Is It Worth It?

    Dozens of states have lured film and TV production with financial incentives. Years after gutting its program during a budget crisis, Michigan wants to rejoin the arms race.

     By Matt Stevens and

    Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” was one of the first major movies to come to Michigan after the state introduced film incentives. Its barbershop scenes were filmed in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak.
    CreditAnthony Michael Rivetti/Warner Bros.
  4. Investors Pour Money Into Wall St. as Stocks Set New Highs

    The influx of cash reflects optimism about the economy and company earnings despite high interest rates and stubborn inflation.

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    A rally has lifted the benchmark S&P 500 index more than 10 percent this year.
    CreditCarlo Allegri/Reuters

inEducation: The Arts

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  1. The Met Museum Hires Its First Head of Provenance Research

    Lucian Simmons is leaving Sotheby’s to lead the museum’s increased efforts to review its collection, which has recently returned looted artifacts, including dozens last year.

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    Lucian Simmons, who will be leading the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s expanded effort to study the provenance of its collection.
    CreditWilson Santiago/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

     By

    Guests at a 1925 breakfast party for Langston Hughes, hosted by Regina Andrews (then Anderson) and Ethel Nance (then Ray) at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue. Hughes is second from left.
    CreditSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library
  3. Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.

    Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free.

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    André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” decrying the vogue for realism and rationality.
    CreditUniversal Images Group, via Getty Images
  4. Why Is There No Oscar for Best Choreography?

    Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.

     By

    CreditBrian Stauffer

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inEducation: Health Sciences

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  1. What’s Next for the Coronavirus?

    Scientists studying the virus’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid.

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  2. The D.E.A. Needs to Stay Out of Medicine

    Restrictions on pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.

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    CreditBen Hickey
  3. The Psychedelic Evangelist

    A Johns Hopkins scientist was known for rigorous studies of psychedelics. Was he a true believer?

     By

    CreditCaitlin Teal Price
  4. Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone

    The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete.

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    Surgeons performed the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16.
    CreditMichelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

inEducation: History

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  1. World War II Loot Found in a Massachusetts Home Is Returned to Okinawa

    The cache of artifacts was discovered in the attic of a veteran’s home after he died. The items were turned over to the F.B.I., which arranged for their return eight decades after the war.

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    CreditFederal Bureau of Investigation, via Associated Press
  2. The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

     By

    Guests at a 1925 breakfast party for Langston Hughes, hosted by Regina Andrews (then Anderson) and Ethel Nance (then Ray) at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue. Hughes is second from left.
    CreditSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library
  3. At Long Last, a Gold Medal for America’s World War II ‘Ghost Army’

    Only seven of the original 1,100 soldiers who carried out psychological operations against the Axis powers are believed to survive.

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    Members of the unit, including Mr. Nussenbaum, in a white T-shirt, and Mr. Bluestein, in the back of the truck.
    CreditGhost Army Legacy Project
  4. Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome

    A 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, recently unearthed in Hungary, offer insight into the practices of undaunted, much-maligned Roman doctors.

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    A Roman fresco from Pompeii depicting a scene from Virgil’s “Aeneid” in which Iapyx, Aeneas’s physician, removes an arrow from Aeneas’s thigh.
    CreditNYPL, via Science Source
  5. Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, March 23, 2024

    Can you sort 8 historical events?

     

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inEducation: Leadership

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  1. Wife, Protector and Now Political Heir: Yulia Navalnaya Rallies Russians

    The wife of Russia’s most famous opposition leader long shunned the spotlight, but his death in prison may make that impossible. “I have no right to give up,” she said.

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    Yulia Navalnaya walking past journalists and supporters at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, in January 2021, shortly after the arrest of her husband, the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
  2. It’s Lonely at the Top

    When making difficult decisions, you won’t help matters by over-explaining that you did what was best for everyone.

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    CreditPhoto Illustration by Margeaux Walter for The New York Times
  3. Elon Musk’s Mindset: ‘It’s a Weakness to Want to Be Liked’

    In an interview, the tech billionaire slams advertisers for pulling back from X and discusses his emotional state.

     By Andrew Ross SorkinEvan RobertsElaine ChenDan Powell and

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  4. Andy Reid, the All-Time-Great Chiefs Coach, Makes Football Fun

    His diligence and sense of mischief have made him one of the game’s best-ever coaches.

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    Coach Andy Reid with Patrick Mahomes and other players in the tunnel before a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints last August.
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inEducation: Psychology

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  1. The Psychedelic Evangelist

    A Johns Hopkins scientist was known for rigorous studies of psychedelics. Was he a true believer?

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    CreditCaitlin Teal Price
  2. What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living

    Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind.

     By

    CreditPhoto illustration by Amy Friend
  3. One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.

    A large study of “discordant twins,” in which only one suffered abuse or neglect, adds to evidence linking childhood trauma to adult illness.

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    Identical twin sisters at a Twins Day celebration in Twinsburg, Ohio, in 2019.
    CreditJosie Gealer/Getty Images
  4. The Answer to America’s Addiction Crisis Could Come Out of Tulsa

    Nicholas Kristof on the most effective recovery program he’s ever seen.

     By Nicholas Kristof and

    CreditIllustration by Akshita Chandra/The New York Times; Photograph by Barrett Emke for The New York Times

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inEducation: Sociology

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  1. What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later

    The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.

     By Sarah MervoshClaire Cain Miller and

    CreditThe New York Times
  2. Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans

    An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption.

     By

    CreditBlue Nile Survey Project
  3. Race and Politics

    We’re covering the rightward shift among voters of color.

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    Voters at MacArthur Park polling station on March 5, 2024 in Long Beach, Calif.
    CreditAriana Drehsler for The New York Times
  4. Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?

    The demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba examines why families — even in wealthy nations — are having fewer children.

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    CreditJustin Fox Burks