Johnson, who is battling a rebellion on his right, is the latest Republican to insert himself into the increasingly tense cultural moment unfolding on university campuses in response to the Israel-Gaza war in efforts to reap political advantage. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/…

Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died on April 7 in Philadelphia. They were 62. nyti.ms/3xVz8uU

Hundreds of students gathered on Wednesday in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest Israel’s war in Gaza and the Ivy League university’s suspension of a student group, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee. nyti.ms/3Jw9oYm

meta rakes in the ad dollars but the street is getting twitchy at the increased spending on A.I. infrastructure — ten percent stock drop in after hours

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The British publisher of the actress Rebel Wilson’s memoir has redacted a portion of the book that details allegations of inappropriate behavior by Sacha Baron Cohen. nyti.ms/4baE7Wy

Biden just signed a law that will force a sale of TikTok within 9-12 months or ban the app in the U.S. here's the inside story of the people who drafted it and got it to the president's desk in record time: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/tec… w Cecilia Kang David McCabe

The Justice Department is investigating McKinsey & Company, the international consulting giant, for its role in helping drug companies maximize their sale of opioids. nyti.ms/4belwt3

Breaking News: Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and several others were indicted in Arizona for their efforts to keep Donald Trump in power despite his 2020 loss. nyti.ms/3xRX2r2

Calorie restriction and intermittent fasting both increase longevity in animals, aging experts say. Here’s what that means for you. nyti.ms/3QdQ5He

The former president is asking the Supreme Court to put the presidency above criminal law as he pursues a broader agenda of expanding the office’s power should he win the election.

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President Biden said on Wednesday that weapons would begin to flow to Ukraine “within hours” as he signed a $95.3 billion package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, reaffirming U.S. support for Kyiv after months of congressional gridlock. nyti.ms/3WbLIQA

NEW: I spent the last 8 months(!) digging into the situation at NPR with my colleague Jeremy Peters. Here's what we found
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Breaking News: Rep. Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat from Newark whose father was New Jersey’s first Black member of Congress, has died at 65.
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The FDA has approved the sale of an antibiotic for the treatment of urinary tract infections in women, giving health providers a powerful new tool to combat a common infection that is increasingly unresponsive to the existing suite of antimicrobial drugs. nyti.ms/3Qg1uWI

There were three ways people used to think of Luton, when they thought of it at all: the airport, as a sort of punchline, and the EDL. Being a Premier League team for a season, though, outweighs all of that. I think that has more power than we realise. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/wor…

When nearly two million Gazans were forced to flee their homes under Israeli bombardment and military evacuation orders, their tents failed to keep out the cold. Now, as temperatures surpass 39 degrees Celsius they've become suffocating. nyti.ms/4dfsCPy

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said late Wednesday that he was considering resigning after a judge opened an investigation into whether Sánchez’s wife had abused her position to help friends win public contracts. nyti.ms/4b6CGsn

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Having spent weeks talking to U.S. public health authorities about bird flu, zeynep tufekci is “shocked by how little they seem to know about what’s actually going on and how little of what they do know is being shared in a timely manner.” nyti.ms/4ddKzhn

Reggie Bush's Heisman reinstatement is the final nail in the coffin for a century-plus era that stigmatized any athlete who dared receive anything of value beyond their scholarship, writes Stewart Mandel.

And college sports are better for it.

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Mayor Eric Adams released a revised $111.6 billion New York City budget on Wednesday. It reversed some of the cuts that he had initially proposed for schools and cultural institutions months ago, but it did not restore funding to city libraries. nyti.ms/3JAw4Ha