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The Brooklyn Bridge didn’t exist. Nor did BAM, Prospect Park, Grand Army Plaza, or the Coney Island Cyclone. In a winter ...

Todd Phillips’s movie musical, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, walks back the hectic ideology that gave “Joker” its ...

The day after Vance’s comments, a judge unsealed a brief from the special counsel Jack Smith, which contained a detailed ...

Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.

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In the span of a week—with the death of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, and Iran’s ...

From the daily newsletter: a surprising find at L.A.’s health-food mecca. Plus: escalation between Israel and Iran; ChatGPT’s ...

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