Opinion | Painted Lady Butterflies Live on Almost Every Continent. We Can Learn From Their Resilience.
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Opinion | Painted Lady Butterflies Live on Almost Every Continent. We Can Learn From Their Resilience.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The migration of the Painted Lady butterfly The Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) undertakes the longest known butterfly migration — an annual, multigenerational journey between Europe and tropical Africa. In search of blooming flowers and host plants, these butterflies travel more than 9,000…

Opinion | Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great
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Opinion | Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I’ll let others describe the economic carnage President Trump’s tariffs have already begun to wreak. I want to describe the damage they will do to the American psyche and the American soul. Trump is building walls. His trade policies obstruct not only the…

Opinion | Why Can’t I Just Burn My Diaries If I Don’t Want Anyone to Read Them?
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Opinion | Why Can’t I Just Burn My Diaries If I Don’t Want Anyone to Read Them?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The person in these pages was young, willful, sometimes petty and painfully sure of herself. And to accept her — my — flaws felt a little like an act of resistance to the pressure I’m well acquainted with as a woman not to…

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies. Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed,…

Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
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Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”)….

The Hot Place to Be Seen for Young Indians: Book Festivals
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The Hot Place to Be Seen for Young Indians: Book Festivals

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mizoram, a state in India’s remote northeast that shares boundaries with Bangladesh and Myanmar, has one. Surat, a city best known for its diamonds and textiles, has one. Bengaluru, the country’s tech hub with a touch of hipness, has one. Kolkata, whose residents…

‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
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‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The science journalist and author Ed Yong likes to joke that during the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, the impact and reach of his reporting for The Atlantic turned him into “a character in the season of ‘Pandemic.’” Indeed, his Covid journalism…

Israeli Police Raid Two Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem
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Israeli Police Raid Two Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Israeli police have raided a pair of Palestinian bookstores in East Jerusalem, arresting two of their owners and confiscating books, in a move that came as Israel tightens its restrictions on free speech and cultural activities for Palestinians across the country. The…

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
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Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in La Conner, Wash. He was 92. His son Fleetwood confirmed the…

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102
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William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died on Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 102. His death was confirmed by Miguel La Serna, chairman of the…