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Legendary Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood music through the 1970s and 1980s, died in Mumbai aged 92, her family says aje.news/5citgo

It came after a NYT reader flagged similarities between the paper’s January review of Watching Over Her by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, written by author and journalist Alex Preston, and an August review of the same book written by Christobel Kent in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

School districts in California are distancing themselves from Cesar Chavez — man that generations of students grew up learning about and condemning his alleged abuse of young girls and women. https://bit.ly/4rRGq99

U.S. at Fault in February Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Mayor Mamdani said he had brought up the student’s detention during a meeting with President Trump in Washington on Thursday. Just after 3 p.m., Mr. Mamdani said on social media that President Trump had informed him that the student would “be released imminently.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

"During my trip to Washington last week, I had productive discussions with Secretary Kristi Noem, and I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Homeland Security will not move forward with the proposed ICE facility in Merrimack," Gov. Kelly Ayotte said. www.wmur.com/article/ice-...

Watch the State of the Union live with NYT analysis here: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

After expanding the dress code to include pink last year to call attention to President Donald Trump’s administration’s treatment of women and families, the lawmakers will return to white tonight, the color of suffrage, partially in reference to the SAVE America Act. https://bit.ly/4u1lG15

The guest list for Trump’s speech includes Epstein victims, Olympians and Erika Kirk. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

While most 18-year-olds worry about college papers and spring break plans, Cesar Vasquez supports families of undocumented immigrants, is a lifeline for his community – and a known ICE target. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... (by @jenniferchowdhury.bsky.social)

I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

"At a coffee shop in Hillsboro, Ore., deputies and local police in Washington Co. responded in Oct. to multiple 911 calls that reported 10 armed men wearing masks who approached a car filled with high school students with weapons drawn in a crowded drive-through lane" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Allegations against those shot at by federal immigration agents have often failed to withstand scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Martin Weil, one of hundreds of journalists being let go at The Washington Post, has worked on local news there since 1965.

"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"The trauma has affected each child differently...One of her 4-year-old twins screamed at the sight of someone holding spray-on deodorant, mistaking it for pepper spray...The baby requires nasal drops to fight the effects of the chemicals that inflamed his sinuses." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Let's live like Walden. Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r... (by @doriechevlen.bsky.social)

When he's not competing as a champion show dog, Nick, a Tibetan spaniel, is a therapy dog at a senior living center in Washington. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...

Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-... (via @19thnews.org)

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

This reads like an episode of Brooklyn 99: Mark Anderson, who had been working at a pizzeria, was charged with impersonating an F.B.I. agent. He was trying to free Luigi Mangione from jail and was found to be carrying a pizza cutter along with a barbecue fork. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/n...

Follow live updates from Minnesota here: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... (Video: The Trump administration is planning to move Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official whose tactics in major American cities have drawn controversy, out of Minneapolis.) www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Protests continued in Minneapolis after federal agents on Saturday fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old man who was the second person to be killed in the city during demonstrations against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Follow live updates. trib.al/NIyNYZi

Bland colors, AI summaries, and declining literacy rates have lots of us worried that we’re losing our intelligence to the modern world. Can we get it back? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... (Via @vox.com’s Today Explained podcast)

When the Eaton Fire destroyed Pasadena Rosebud Academy, its executive director focused on keeping her students engaged and her community intact, even without a campus. A year later, enrollment actually increased. 19thnews.org/2026/01/eato... (via @19thnews.org by @nadrakn.bsky.social)

The five-year-old, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were taken to Dilley, Texas, outside of San Antonio, where they are being held at an immigration detention center, according to Marc Prokosch, a lawyer working with the family. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

The Met Opera announced on Tuesday that it would lay off workers, cut the salaries of its top-paid executives and postpone a new production from its coming season www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/a...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

The rise of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. (Via @vox.com’s Today Explained) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Claudette Colvin's refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, but her defiance was overshadowed later when Rosa Parks took a similar stand. Local civil rights leaders thought Colvin was too dark-skinned and too poor to win over Montgomery’s Black middle class. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the United States for more than a half-century, said that its board of directors voted to dissolve CPB because Congress cut off its federal money. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...

My reaction to literally all of 2026 so far:

Zohran Mamdani officially took office as mayor after the New Year’s Eve ball drop, in a private ceremony held at a shuttered relic of the city’s subway. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

A NYTimes investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke - like those that remained standing after the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Indian Americans may now be waking up from the "American Dream" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o... (By @polgreen.bsky.social)

Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (via @nytimes.com's incredible photojournalists)

America is becoming a second home for Hindi comedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

New Yorkers: Next month marks the anniversary of congestion pricing. The tolling program, the first of its kind in the U.S., charges most drivers up to $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th St. How has congestion pricing impacted your year? We want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

In high-profile Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and across Massachusetts, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, compared with a third of immigrants arrested nationwide. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A raccoon broke into a Virginia liquor store and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...

To inform our upcoming guide on how the lives of Americans have changed during this first year of the Trump administration, we want to hear from you. We want to answer your questions about the real-world impact of the Trump policies enacted since Inauguration Day. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

A powerful podcast episode from Code Switch about how immigrant families at risk of deportation are preparing with "emergency guardianship" to ensure their children are taken care of. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...