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On Politics: Pleading Guilty, Cohen Details Moscow Trump Tower Talks

Why Michael Cohen Lied to Congress

Can We Stop Suicides?

N.Y. Today: The City Has Few Statues of Women. Here Comes Shirley Chisholm.

Wedding in Paradise Is Lost, but ‘Angels’ Help After Camp Fire Devastation

The Stock Market’s Dangers Are Easier to See Now

Your (New) Friday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: How to deal with difficult people on software projects

New top story on Hacker News: ObjectBox: Superfast object-oriented database now available for Go

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7

New top story on Hacker News: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples

New top story on Hacker News: The rise of “8D Audio” on YouTube

Weekly Health Quiz: French Fries, Sports and Genetically Edited Babies

Black Male Writers for Our Time

As China Seeks Scientific Greatness, Some Say Ethics Are an Afterthought

Lasting Rancor Over Voting Issues Puts a Spotlight on a Georgia Runoff

At Stake When Xi and Trump Meet: The Possibility of a New Cold War

How Michael Bloomberg Used His Money to Aid Democratic Victories in the House

‘It’s Premature’: Incoming Judiciary Chairman Warns Against Rush to Impeach

6 Takeaways From the Times’s Investigation Into T.M. Landry

T’s Holiday Issue: All Together Now

Ferrari’s Strong Car, Drivers and Tire Strategy Bring a Familiar Result

Climate Change Insurance: Buy Land Somewhere Else

‘The Goal Is to Change Hearts, Not to Change Cultures’: Missionaries on the Death of John Allen Chau

Finally, New York Has a Cocktail Library

Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth

How Gregg Bishop, Small Business Expert, Spends His Sundays

Drawn to Tesla’s Bright Prospects, Many Black Workers Say They Found Racism

This Store Lets Holiday Shoppers Buy Gifts for Refugees

Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Disillusioned Hit Maker

Big, Beautiful Books to Catch the Eye of Every Child

Of Demogorgons and Purple Worms — a Visual History of Dungeons & Dragons

New top story on Hacker News: Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store

New top story on Hacker News: The Pontoon Bridges That Carry Millions at Kumbh Mela

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines

Did You Know Dieter Rams Designed a Handbag?

Jimmy Fallon Says Trump Seems to Be ‘Running Out of Friends’

Learning With: ‘Are Civics Lessons a Constitutional Right? These Students Are Suing for Them’

George R.R. Martin on How ‘Nightflyers’ Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Possible

Prison Romances, Standing the Test of (Hard) Time and Cameras

New top story on Hacker News: Employee Stock Options on Ethereum

New top story on Hacker News: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

Abuse, Fear and Intimidation: How Viral Videos Masked a Prep School’s Problems

Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality.

Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail

New top story on Hacker News: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

New top story on Hacker News: The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web

New top story on Hacker News: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes

New top story on Hacker News: Maybe Not [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: An experimental code search engine

New top story on Hacker News: NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

New top story on Hacker News: Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings

New top story on Hacker News: Starting a Business in Silicon Valley

New top story on Hacker News: Reading minds with deep learning

New top story on Hacker News: Clojure REBL [video]

New top story on Hacker News: The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers: Medical Students

New top story on Hacker News: FoundationDB Document Layer

New top story on Hacker News: In the realms of gold: exploring Africa’s rich history

New top story on Hacker News: How to design co-programs

New top story on Hacker News: When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

New top story on Hacker News: Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed

New top story on Hacker News: Asana raises $50M at a $1.5B valuation

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter’s Kafka adoption story

New top story on Hacker News: Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project

New top story on Hacker News: Observable Playground

New top story on Hacker News: New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components

New top story on Hacker News: 'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand

New top story on Hacker News: Go 2, here we come

New top story on Hacker News: A 96-year-old artist who saved a village

New top story on Hacker News: GraphQL: A Retrospective

New top story on Hacker News: The Digital Maginot Line

New top story on Hacker News: Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence

New top story on Hacker News: Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department [video]

New top story on Hacker News: The Unified Theory of Ram Dass

What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman

Australian Students Stage School Strikes Over Climate Change Inaction

Oklahoma Quarterback Kyler Murray Nears the End of a Two-Sport Career

A European Goes to Trump’s Washington

Astrology

Word + Quiz: subterfuge

The Beauty of Brazil’s Rain Forest, in Jewelry

The Luckenbooth: Scotland’s Love Brooch

How Jewelry Makes Us Who We Are

Emerald and Gold Jewelry Pushes Up Quality at the Met Shop

Engraving That Endures

She Calls Her Stock ‘Jewelry, Made by Artists’

Emojis: Dressed Up and Ready to Party

The Secret History of Women, Told in Earrings