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When violence and trauma visit American places, a complex question follows: Demolish, or press on?

Make mine medium-rare: Men really do eat more meat than women, study says

Life as a teen without social media isn’t easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor’s plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment

How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options

US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed?

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‘They tortured us': Rohingya survivors of fatal capsize say captain raped girls, purposely sank boat

In March, Indonesian officials and local fishermen rescued 75 people from the overturned hull of a boat that was carrying Rohingya refugees when it capsized off Indonesia.

A Chinese flavor of rap music is flourishing as emerging musicians find their voices

Although Chinese rap has been operating underground for decades in cities like Beijing, it is the Sichuan region — known internationally for its spicy cuisine and its panda reserve — that has come to dominate.

The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that

Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Testimony by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker during former President Trump’s hush money trial has been shocking even for people who bring a healthy degree of skepticism whenever they read the supermarket tabloid.

What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture

Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it possible for artists to use them freely.

As his trans daughter struggles, a father pushes past his prejudice. ‘It was like a wake-up’

Dusty Farr used to be someone else. Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing

A racially biased test delayed Black patients from getting a kidney transplant and now more than 14,000 are part of a move to make amends.

In Vermont, ‘Town Meeting’ is democracy embodied. What can the rest of the country learn from it?

Democracy takes many forms, and some are more direct than others. In Vermont, the tradition of Town Meeting is very direct.

The irony of Steve Martin’s life isn’t lost on him

People participate in documentaries for all kinds of reasons. But Steve Martin may be unique in making a film about his life with the instruction of: “See if you can make sense of all THAT.”

Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream

“Pics, or it didn’t happen” has been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place.

The Oscars haven’t done this in a long time

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