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If you’re a student, an educator or a parent, I’m sorry. The pandemic has been an ordeal for schools. While exam time has always been tough on students, remote test-taking now often involves a new kind of pressure: special monitoring software that watches eye movements, listens for whispers and tracks…

In the report, the administration cited its efforts to identify weaknesses in supply chains for key products like semiconductors, electric-vehicle batteries, certain minerals and pharmaceutical products, and to bolster American manufacturing through expanded federal purchasing and other investment. “The public sector can be a partner of the private sector, rather…

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter on Thursday and said it needs to be transformed as a private company.Credit…Suzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, is famously enigmatic. On April 4, when he first disclosed that he had bought enough shares of Twitter to become the…

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter on Thursday and said it needs to be transformed as a private company.Credit…Suzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, is famously enigmatic. On April 4, when he first disclosed that he had bought enough shares of Twitter to become the…

When the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus arrived in the United States last fall, it pushed new case numbers to previously unseen peaks. Even then, the record wave of recorded infections was a significant undercount of reality. In New York City, for example, officials logged more than 538,000…

And yet, the dominant vision of ambient music today is a cartoonish inversion of these aspirations. In a multibillion-dollar wellness industry, streaming platforms and meditation apps frame ambient as background music — something for detached listening and consumption. It is spa and yoga music, or field recordings for undisturbed, restful…

This is an archetypal redemption story, a reminder that as much as the world has changed since ancient times, oppression, degradation and exploitation remain part of the human condition. As long as there is power, there will be abuses of power. But the Exodus is also a reminder that any…

Elon Musk said his offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share represented a 54 percent premium over the share price on the day before he began investing in the company in late January.Credit…Pool photo by Patrick Pleul Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover bid for Twitter, offering to…

LONDON — Movies by David Cronenberg, Claire Denis and Park Chan-wook will compete for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s organizers announced on Thursday. Films by previous winners Ruben Ostlund, Hirokazu Kore-eda and Cristian Mungiu will also be among the 18 titles in the running…

The debate over whether the recent surge in inflation is transitory or permanent has been settled. Now the question is whether the Federal Reserve can tame increasing inflationary turbulence and bring the economy to a soft touchdown. Mounting evidence suggests a hard landing — in other words, a recession. We…