Already loved it | "All jazz musicians set out early to find their own voice, their own sound, and the saxophone’s mix of reed and metal is a willing accomplice." @nytimes.com

“It is really beautiful that I can still work. Physically and emotionally, it changes the quality of my life,” she said. @nytimes.com

This high school team in Oklahoma City forfeited the title earlier this year after their coach spotted a scoring error that incorrectly crowned them the champions. @nytimes.com

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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. @propublica.org

Contestants are judged on “the grotesqueness of the grimace and on the extent to which their facial features change,” according to the rules. @nytimes.com

“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.” @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

Customers don’t want to risk leaving home, getting nabbed by ICE agents and being sent thousands of miles away from their Long Island families, he said. @davidolson11.bsky.social in @newsday.bsky.social

The majority of the cocaine that is smuggled to the United States moves through the Pacific, not the Caribbean, U.S. data shows. @nytimes.com

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago.

"Being onstage offers a platform in which to spit hot fire." | ‘Mexodus’ Tells an Underground Railroad Story You’ve Probably Never Heard | @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

The postcard, an update from Mr. Ball on his travels, provided the kind of quick message one might send in a text or a social media post today. @nytimes.com

Each piece is crafted not just to bury the deceased, but to embody the essence of their life. They can be so colorful that they can make dying seem attractive. @apnews.com

“All of these apartments, especially on the top floors, will become uninhabitable in the coming years,” said Dan Lert, deputy mayor in charge of the city’s ecological transition and its climate change plan. @nytimes.com

Even before the detective had explained, she said: “The tears started coming from me, you know, I just knew they had found him, in my heart. I just knew it.” @nytimes.com

Soon, many of Earth’s marine ecosystems could be fundamentally and forever altered if pressures like climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and coastal development continue unabated, according to the authors. @nytimes.com

Looking up at the main branch of The New York Public Library.

“This should not be happening this way,” Mr. Thompson recalled thinking. He raced around in search of supplies and relied on the community of Burners, many of them strangers from nearby camps, as he and his wife experienced some of the scariest moments of their lives. @nytimes #BurningMan

There is evidence that reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s, the researchers said, but they called the size of the latest decrease “surprising.” @nytimes.com

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., was painted over this week by the state of Florida. @nytimes.com

Trade volatility has created an existential threat for independent board game publishers in the United States, virtually all of which employ fewer than 10 workers. @nytimes.com

A legal dispute over how Frida Kahlo's trademarks can be used is before a Florida appeals court this summer and could set precedents that affect other artists. @nbcnews.com

This is “purpose anxiety” — the gnawing sense that one’s life should have an overarching purpose. @apnews.com

Started reading this short story about a daughter and mother while riding in the same direction and it took me all the way through, "...their silence becoming more and more rigid as the train took them beneath the river in the direction of Queens." In @parisreview.bsky.social

Some faulted the tech industry, saying they felt “gaslit” about their career prospects. Others described their job search experiences as “bleak,” “disheartening” or “soul-crushing.” @nytimes.com

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From the moment he founded his first steady band, the eight-piece La Perfecta, in 1961, Mr. Palmieri drove many of the stylistic shifts and creative leaps in Latin music. @nytimes.com

Flaco Jiménez, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies at 86. “I would consider our music as like a bouquet of roses in rainbow colors, you know?” he told The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts in 1990. @nytimes.com

Picture a man seated at a piano beside a lake. It could also be on a mountaintop, in a forest or meadow. @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

Mr. Pelzer’s children said he was able to read 3,599 books from 1962, when he first began jotting his reads down on his language class work sheets while stationed in Nepal with the Peace Corps, to 2023, when his eyesight failed him. @aishvarya.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

tropical morning shower #rain #tropical #landscape #sky

There is a time for everything, and a season for every #writing activity under the heavens: a time to compose and a time to edit a time to tear down and a time to build a time to submit and a time to be rejected.

A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests. @nytimes.com

The scroll was handwritten in 1847, just two years after Baptists in the United States split, with the Southern congregations breaking off over their Northern counterparts’ condemnation of slavery. @aishvarya.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

The arrangement will give visitors a glimpse of a crucial episode in their country’s history as they come to stand before an epic work made to hang in the nave of a cathedral in France. @nytimes.com

The change will phase out permanent waivers for soldiers who had been allowed to grow beards because they had been diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae, also known as razor bumps or ingrown hairs. @nytimes.com

A typewriter recently discovered in a basement in upstate New York holds important clues about the origins of Chinese computing. @npr.org

“The perception is that time spent spacing out is worthless,” she said. “I wanted to make this time spent spacing out seem valuable.” @nytimes.com

#sunrise #sky #clouds

The last time Teresa Peroni was seen alive, she was walking into a wooded area in Selma, Ore., with a man she had been dating while they were attending a party on July 4, 1983. @nytimes.com

Sister Marizele, 46, and Sister Marisa, 41, are part of a wider movement in the Catholic Church to let go, loosen up and meet younger audiences where they are — online. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

A New York Times analysis of photos and videos from the June 12 incident — which were reviewed with aviation safety experts, including former pilots and crash investigators, as well as an audio forensics expert — reveals key details about the disaster. @nytimes.com

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to take effect in some parts of the country for now, ruling that several district court judges had exceeded their authority in blocking the policy. Read the other major rulings. nyti.ms/3Gk6rMA

Two men were sentenced in Texas on Friday for their roles in the deaths of 53 undocumented migrants, six of whom were children. Prosecutors called it one of the deadliest migrant smuggling cases in recent years along the southern border.

:( Your P.C. won't be blue anymore. @nytimes.com

Many of the tens of thousands of American L.G.B.T.Q. couples who have wed in the decade since might never have exchanged vows if it hadn’t been for seven couples who sued the State of Massachusetts in 2001. @nytimes.com

But before they could get their diplomas, the school’s principal felt compelled to interrupt the celebratory mood: She had to pay tribute to a Venezuelan student who was sitting in an immigration detention center about 275 miles away in Pennsylvania. @nytimes.com

The sheer heterogeneity of Robert Francis Prevost’s ancestry, with its quite colorful, multiple roots and branches, may be what makes Pope Leo IV's heritage so truly American, writes Henry Louis Gates Jr. in @nytimes.com

"My dad just lost all the color in his face": A family's story.

"We’re drawn to activities that invite us to grow, by trying and trying again, because we want to evolve as people. Life is mostly repetitive—wake, eat, work, sleep, repeat—and each day can feel like an unsatisfying circle. But repetition with variation broadens us." @newyorker.com