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Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.
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Athletes from around the world attended the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan.
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Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.
Lil Jon's son, Nathan Smith, was reported missing on Feb. 3, according to the Milton Police Department.
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Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.
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The officer, Erik Duran, was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for throwing a cooler at a man on a motorbike.
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High-profile abductions, like those of Patty Hearst and J. Paul Getty III, have captured the nation’s attention, but experts say kidnappings by strangers are exceedingly rare.
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Mr. Karp resigned as chairman of the elite law firm after senior partners met to decide his future.
A market surge propelled the Dow to a new record high.
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President Trump's post of a racist video of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama underscores how imagery long recognized as among the most explicit racist tropes in U.S. history have become normalized in the Trump era. Why it matters: For decades, such imagery routinely ended careers. But even the harshest denunciations from Trump allies suggested they just want an apology, not further accountability. Catch up quick: Trump recently posted — and deleted 12 hours later — a clip portraying the Obamas as apes at the end of a video on his Truth Social feed. - The White House on Friday initially said criticism of the video was "fake outrage." - It later backtracked, deleting the post and claiming it was…
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