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Polyamorous? Queer. Vaguely uncomfortable with gender expectations? Possibly queer, too. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/MXUJY8O

A rescue mission will soon be underway for NASA’s Swift telescope. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/HmZ2g3s

In an era of electronic timepieces, he marketed $40,000 handmade watches as status symbols, breathing new life into a struggling industry. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/vgarC5y

Forecasters warned that temperatures could break records in some areas. The heat is expected to last into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ortjH5i

The annual celebration began Sunday in a city where many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community are optimistic about their local leaders but face continued challenges from the Trump administration. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/sINfKiy

The president said he was nominating Lance Schroyer, who currently serves as an adviser to Markwayne Mullin, the D.H.S. secretary, to lead the high-profile agency. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/kGb4o5e

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said emergency crews were rescuing people from flooded homes and vehicles on Saturday. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/lWuSeL7

Chain-link fencing now surrounds the pool in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration. It has not stopped people from gawking. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ZPyw3GB

Residents in the Caribbean enclave in Brooklyn worried about returning to a crime-ravaged country after President Trump was allowed a path to deport them. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/KJZbX24

The university hired a high-powered law firm to try to reach an agreement with the Justice Department over claims its admissions practices hurt white and Asian applicants. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/d4sy3Rz

After years of operating on the fringe of Democratic values, pro-Palestinian activists felt validated after the primary wins by several candidates who oppose Israel’s actions. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/41t3BAo

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/KrwxiU4

An unlikely trio of justices issued a slashing critique of plea bargains that included several references to orangutans. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/muge7bz

The United States is putting together bags with a children’s book on so-called reverse racism, and with a document that defends the country’s founding on the basis of slavery. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/unG3h0M

Few independent surveys were published in Democratic primaries despite prominent candidates and some ideological tests. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/04xezlm

A crucial episode in the famous Fed chair’s legacy. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/hF79n6K

A victory for Abelardo De La Espriella, a lawyer with no previous political experience, would be a rebuke to the left and another win for the right in Latin America. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/FJnS0Ex

With secondary education and most jobs out of reach, thousands of Afghan women have turned to entrepreneurship as the only path to make money and maintain a social life. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/3J08Tx4

The United States and Iranian militaries have offered conflicting accounts over whether the crucial waterway is open. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/7qnFINV

The Newsroom, overflowing with magazines and newspapers on mismatched shelves, has endured as a symbol of a different Washington. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/boX7BVw

TikTok and “protein-maxxing” are driving a cottage cheese squeeze that’s left some consumers desperate. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/NiUytQV

A new rescuer — Colby College, bankrolled by a construction magnate — will vastly change not just the economics of Port Clyde, Maine, but also its cultural and physical fabric. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/yDS09Ci

Low fertility rates are a lagging indicator, the final outcome of a string of social shifts. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/CBzbOFQ

In a Democratic primary for a coveted House seat in Manhattan, Micah Lasher is betting long experience can prevail despite anti-establishment headwinds. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/XxL5euN

In my darker moments, I worry I’ve failed them. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/1Tp6Ghj

In a contest of wills, the hard men of Tehran prevailed over the vain man of Washington. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ZiCB7h1

The states can hold guilty parties responsible when the federal government will not. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/xCqHTOj

No details were given about the 84-year-old former majority leader’s condition, but he has had a string of health issues in recent years. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/O9U0Qsf

The agency gave a rosy update on Artemis III, a test flight for its goal to return humans to the moon, but experts say the timeline is ambitious. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/0t39Arp

Lifelong fans reminisced on the team’s last championship win. “When the Knicks won, it was like a different New York City,” one said. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/h3GYdmf

A review of polling data shows an extraordinary swing among white working-class voters on the president’s handling of the economy. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/fXVqlWR

Housing debates often involve theatrics. But when a group of actors, many of whom are renters, discovered they had been hired to join a pro-landlord demonstration, several said they felt deceived. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/FHsrhwc

Critics say the move would help the Israeli military protect increased settlement activity near Palestinian population centers in the West Bank. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/6nFLC4x

Imagine what Tom Steyer could have done with all the money he wasted on another campaign. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/Bhfm2tu

A new politics of morality is rising in the Democratic Party. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/TA5hCn8

A self-taught artist, he brought narrative to modern photography with sequences of staged black-and-white images, often accompanied by wry or lyrical captions. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/EoI3d6y

Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders’s former foreign policy adviser, argues that Democrats need a foreign policy reckoning. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/FP7h1NE

A.I. tutoring is seductive, but ultimately ineffective. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/LOdE5Vr

President Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are expected to attend the game on Monday at Madison Square Garden. A viewing party on Friday led to more than a dozen arrests. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/4hLPtKW

The secret to the secretary of state’s success. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/cxbghBU

The police took dozens of people into custody this week after N.B.A. finals watch parties in Midtown Manhattan grew unruly. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/TYjGwNE

With the Amputee Football World Cup nearing, an elite squad of athletes gathered on Long Island to vie for a spot on the national men’s team, displaying skill and grit. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/GR3B7SN

The Lenape were forced out of their ancestral lands centuries ago. Now in Oklahoma, their descendants feel the pull of homeland in the east. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/GNQP4Wq

At the St. Petersburg economic forum, business and political elites said Russia faced a choice of halting the conflict or sacrificing more. Vladimir Putin seemed to signal more war. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/TchOBA3

The Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the economic noose on Cuba appear to be working, as more international firms announced they would leave the island. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/LHj2cqC

More than 80 people have been arrested during turbulent protests outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey over the past two weeks. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/HxJWtiU

Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ib8EIjJ

It just needs to be given the chance. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/51NojcF

The former first lady’s new book reflects an insular White House where loyalty was prized and President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s feelings were prioritized over health concerns. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ni4ufXh

Premier Danielle Smith announced that she would ask citizens to vote on whether they want to stay in Canada, or hold a referendum to secede. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ayrH7vp

Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/c4CxowJ