How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
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Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen? (www.nytimes.com)
Biden Will Try Again to Wipe Out Student Loan Debt for Millions of Borrowers (www.nytimes.com)
Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row? (www.nytimes.com)
A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong - The New York Times (Free article) (www.nytimes.com)
The more data we collect, the more we realize our assumptions about the universe may be incorrect. This is the first year data of a multi-year study on mapping the position of galaxies.
Under Half of Illegal Gun Cases Tracked by A.T.F. Were Involved in Black Market Sales (www.nytimes.com)
100,000 live salmon spilled off a truck. Most landed in a creek and lived. (www.nytimes.com)
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said....
For Red State Holdouts Like Kansas, Is Expanding Medicaid Within Reach? (www.nytimes.com)
Lawsuits Accuse 2 Michigan Jails of Banning Family Visits to Increase Revenue (www.nytimes.com)
He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared. (www.nytimes.com)
Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan Plans to Reopen With $1.5 Billion Loan (www.nytimes.com)
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to provide a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a nuclear power plant in Michigan — the latest step in the government’s effort to revive the nation’s reactors....
The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement (www.nytimes.com)
Trump Gets Bond Deal to Ward Off $454 Million Judgment, for Now (www.nytimes.com)
Former President Donald J. Trump averted a financial disaster on Monday, reaching a deal that will spare him from paying a $454 million judgment in his civil fraud case while he appeals the penalty....
Protests Against Netanyahu Intensify as Cease-Fire Talks Resume, Thousands Have Taken to the Streets of Israel to Demand That Netanyahu be Replaced (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices (www.nytimes.com)
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie....
Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers (www.nytimes.com)
“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”
How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk (www.nytimes.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world....
‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality (www.nytimes.com)
The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close (www.nytimes.com)
The company that owns the Merrimack and Schiller stations in New Hampshire plans to turn them into solar farms and battery storage for offshore wind....
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library (www.nytimes.com)
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections....
U.S. Approves $1.5 Billion Loan to Restart Michigan Nuclear Plant (www.nytimes.com)
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
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‘Yo Soy la Mamá’: A Migrant Mother’s Struggle to Get Back Her Son (www.nytimes.com)
Under an interstate compact, Massachusetts formally asked Florida to approve the relocation. Florida said no. Though a caseworker found Olga to have a clean record, a proper home and sufficient income, she denied the move because Olga was not a legal U.S. resident....
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave: Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom. (www.nytimes.com)
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. For a one-night stay, he paid $200.57....