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The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now (Gift Article)

New matrix, meet the old matrix.

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One Bus’s Long, Strange Trip, and Why It’s Returning to San Francisco nytimes.com/2026/08/09/us/ke… via @NYTimes

The ‘Rosetta Stone’ of San Francisco’s Counterculture Revolution Comes Home (Gift Article)

Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, immortalized in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” is preparing for one more run. And to its owners, America sure could use it.

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Remembering ‘Michigan’s Woodstock’: The Goose Lake International Music Festival

Less than a year after Woodstock, the Goose Lake International Music Festival took place in Jackson County. But it wasn’t all peace and love.

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Lincoln wasn’t seen as president material. Then Harpers Ferry happened. wapo.st/3RKZ5HN

Opinion | Lincoln wasn’t seen as president material. Then Harpers Ferry happened.

John Brown’s failed abolitionist raid changed the course of the 1860 election.

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U.S. Aircraft Carrier Makes a Rare Port Call in Vietnam nytimes.com/2026/07/30/world… via @NYTimes

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Makes Rare Port Call in Vietnam (Gift Article)

The seven-day visit, the longest since the two countries restored relations, is a show of mutual cooperation and a U.S. signal to China. But it comes during tensions over tariffs.

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Clara Ester, Who Was With Martin Luther King Jr. in His Last Moments, Dies at 78 nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/cl… via @NYTimes

Clara Ester, Who Was With Martin Luther King Jr. in His Last Moments, Dies at 78 (Gift Article)

A Memphis college student and activist, she witnessed Dr. King’s assassination in 1968 when he was shot at his motel and ran to him to check his pulse.

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The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world… via @NYTimes

The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I (Gift Article)

Parallels between the two wars abound, from the grinding nature of the fighting to the way new technologies reshaped warfare.

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How the Voting Rights Act Bolstered Black Representation in the House nytimes.com/interactive/2026… via @NYTimes

How Did the Voting Rights Act Change Black Representation in 10 States? (Gift Article)

See more charts on how the passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation in the U.S. House, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.

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Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame wapo.st/4sI8Key

Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame

“I think we’re going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.

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The Oil Shocks of the ’70s Changed the World. Will the Iran War Do the Same? nytimes.com/2026/03/28/busin… via @NYTimes

The Oil Shocks of the ’70s Changed the World. Will the Iran War Do the Same? (Gift Article)

Gas lines and quadrupling oil prices freaked out American consumers. But the oil crises also transformed global finance.

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Senate Moves Toward Passing Sweeping Housing Bill, but Challenges Lie Ahead nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/po… via @NYTimes

Senate Moves Toward Passing Sweeping Housing Bill, but Challenges Lie Ahead (Gift Article)

The legislation’s progress is all the more surprising because it addresses an issue that is shaping up to be the main battleground of the midterm elections: affordability. The effort could still...

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Unlike in Past Conflicts, Most Americans Oppose Iran Attacks nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/po… via @NYTimes

Unlike Past U.S. Conflicts, Iran Attack Is Opposed by Most Americans (Gift Article)

While the public has historically backed military intervention initially in international conflicts, deep polarization has left the latest strikes against Iran with record-low support.

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Pro-American Kurdish Forces Are Preparing Possible Iran Incursion (Gift Article)

The C.I.A. has given small weapons to Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq in a covert program that began before the current war.

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Trump gives Michigan native medal of honor for Vietnam War heroism detroitnews.com/story/news/p…

Trump gives Michigan native medal of honor for Vietnam War heroism

President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to Michigan native Terry P. Richardson, a Vietnam War veteran credited with saving 85 troops in 1968 battle

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Iranian supreme leader killed in Israeli airstrike, source says npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-573…

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed

The Iranian government has declared 40 days of national mourning after Khamenei was killed in a U.S.–Israeli attack on Saturday.

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A school suspended 323 students after ICE protest. They protested again. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

A school suspended 323 students after ICE protest. They protested again.

The Virginia school is one of many across the country that have seen students walk out in protest of actions taken amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Nasa targets March 6 date to send humans back around the Moon

Nasa sets the launch date following a successful "wet dress rehearsal" of the Artemis II mission.

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands nytimes.com/2026/02/16/clima… via @NYTimes

Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands (Gift Article)

In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near a wilderness area in Minnesota.

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Cuba’s Government Has Lasted 67 Years. Will It Fall Under Trump? nytimes.com/2026/02/08/world… via @NYTimes

Cuba’s Government Has Lasted 67 Years. Will It Fall Under Trump? (Gift Article)

The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year.

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