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Your Thursday Briefing: Bombs Kill a Teenager in Jerusalem

Aryeh Schupak, a 15-year-old yeshiva student, was killed in the bombings.Credit...Mahmoud Illean/Associated PressBombs explode in Jerusalem Two ...

World

The World Took a Bold, Toothless Step Forward on Climate Justice

The United Nations climate conference that concluded last weekend in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, did not appear, at the outset,…

Business

Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built

In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code. Called…

World

He’s a 25-Year-Old Gun Control Activist. Now He’s Heading to Congress.

Don’t let his tender age fool you: Maxwell Alejandro Frost has been doing this for a while. Frost was only…

World

Court Leaves New York City School Budget Cuts in Place

After a monthslong court battle over the New York City public school budget, a state appellate court on Tuesday allowed…

Health

U.S. Officials Offer Hopeful Tone on Covid as Winter Nears

Federal health officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that the nation was better prepared to weather a surge of Covid-19 infections…

World

Robert D. Kern, Developer of Emergency Generators, Dies at 96

Robert D. Kern, a mechanical engineer who in 1959 started a company in a garage making portable backup power generators…

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Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative

It’s one thing to hope for a better community online, and another, very different one, to build it. Just ask…

World

Your Tuesday Briefing: Indonesia’s Deadly Earthquake

Rescuers searched for survivors in Cianjur, Indonesia.Credit...Rangga Firmansyah/Associated PressA fatal earthquake in Indonesia At least 162 ...

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Exploring a Plan to Remake the L.A. River

The Los Angeles River looking north toward downtown Los Angeles.Credit...Monica Almeida/The New York TimesToday we’ll start with a short history…

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