NYTIMES (Alexa Robles-Gil) - New Spider Mimics ‘The Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Cordyceps
A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.
NYTIMES (Valerie Hopkins and Tomas Dapkus) - U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge
The Trump administration made the move in exchange for Belarus’s freeing of 250 political prisoners, part of a rapprochement between the two countries.
NYTIMES (Valerie Hopkins) - Lukashenko Jailed Her in Belarus, but She Wants the World to Talk to Him
Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five years.
NYTIMES (Benjamin Mullin) - Can Jonah Peretti Save BuzzFeed From Extinction?
Facing financial straits, the founder is betting on a skunkworks for A.I. experiments.
NYTIMES (Reed Abelson) - How New Mexico Became an Obamacare Success Story
Affordable Care Act enrollment has dropped across the United States since the enhanced federal subsidies expired. But New Mexico has record numbers of people signing up.
NYTIMES (Stacy Cowley) - Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default
Recently released data from the Education Department showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans.
NYTIMES (Kurtis Lee and Robert Gebeloff) - Blood Plasma Centers Move Into More Middle-Class Neighborhoods
Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care.
NYTIMES (Alexandra Alter) - A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Ian Stewart, Sheera Frenkel and Rebecca R. Ruiz) - Silicon Valley’s Big Bets on War Pay Off, and the Trump Family Business Looks to Transylvania
Plus, a buzzy new book was just canceled over A.I. allegations.
NYTIMES (Farnaz Fassihi) - A Diary of War From an Unlikely Author: the Son of Iran’s President
In an online journal, Yousef Pezeshkian offers readers a mix of personal anecdotes and glimpses behind the scenes as Iranian leaders are picked off one after another.