Dorothea Degen
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Spot news editor on the business desk at The Associated Press. A tiny cog in the great wheel of evolution.
Child poisoned as NYC special education classrooms lag in lead-paint inspections gothamist.com/news/child-p...
Child poisoned as NYC special education classrooms lag in lead-paint inspections
According to a Gothamist analysis, classrooms serving students with disabilities are less likely to be inspected for lead paint, despite a higher risk.
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BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide
A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
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We're facing a national blood crisis. Blood donations have fallen to a four-year summer low, pushing an already strained blood supply to a critical level. We are in dire need of donors to help patients counting on lifesaving blood. Book an appointment to give blood now: https://rdcrss.org/4flOOe9
People across seven countries share stories of spiking gas prices, goodbyes filled with fear, livelihoods pushed closer to the edge — and days that no longer looked the way they once did after the Iran war began.
Across the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday life
People share stories of spiking gas prices, goodbyes filled with fear, livelihoods pushed closer to the edge — and days that no longer looked the way they once did.
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companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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The Trump administration issued subpoenas to New York Times journalists who wrote about the new Air Force One, an escalation of pressure on the media.
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Hi guys I really need your help. My mom commissioned an audiobook version of her novel, which was published by a very small press that gave her ZERO publicity support. She’s gotten 100 reviews all on her own! Please share these links! a.co/d/0audu6VB www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-wate...
Under Water
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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Journalism friends, please share: The @denverpost.com is looking to hire 2 new reporters: a full-time legislative reporter, plus a part-time breaking news reporter #journalismjobs —> myworkdaycenter.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MNG/jo... —> myworkdaycenter.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MNG/jo...
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies
‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies
Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers The Major oak, one of Europe’s oldest, largest and most celebrated ancient trees, has died. The huge tree, which has grown in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, for at least 1,000 years, failed to produce any leaves this year, after becoming stressed by a series of hot, dry summers. Continue reading...
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A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development. n.pr/4xoA70O
Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains
A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development.
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A Brooklyn funeral home hosted a Game 4 watch party. The Knicks came back from the dead. gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
A Brooklyn funeral home hosted a Game 4 watch party. The Knicks came back from the dead.
“ The thing that I love about living in New York is everyone's, like, a little weird.”
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A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.
New Jersey police sergeant charged with stealing journalist's camera bag at immigration protest
A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.
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Scott Pelley on being fired: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...
CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak on stage on her lawyer’s advice amid tech firm’s sanction Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta. Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu. Continue reading...
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L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.
They began as strangers playing chess in Central Park, and they formed the kind of casual friendships that can happen over a chessboard. After one of the friends were found incoherent and ragged, it began an unlikely chain of events that would ultimately save one life, maybe two.
How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives
A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park.
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If you wondered what it’s like to be laid off from a tech company like Meta, you can hear it in song, with lyrics to an AI-generated song created by a Meta employee: Meta layoff, Meta layoff Say it like a joke Meta layoff, Meta layoff House of cards went broke 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/t...
Soundtrack to 8,000 Job Cuts: A Meta Worker’s Layoff-Themed A.I. Songs
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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“.. the latest attempt by the Trump administration to reframe the Jan. 6 siege and to paint the rioters who participated in it as victims.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Howard Fendrich, a national sports writer for The Associated Press whose persistent reporting brought readers inside dozens of Grand Slam tennis finals, record-breaking Olympic moments and harrowing trips down Alpine ski slopes, has died. He was 55.
Howard Fendrich, award-winning AP national sports writer and tennis expert, dies at 55
Howard Fendrich, a longtime national sports writer for The Associated Press, has died at 55. His persistent reporting and detail-rich prose brought readers inside dozens of taut Grand Slam tennis finals, record-breaking Olympic moments and harrowing trips down the Alpine ski slopes.
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1. A network of prominent news outlets, including The Oregonian, The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, have quietly published more than 17,000 articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books and prediction markets Advance Local, which owns these outlets, claims this is journalism.
Pulitzer-winning newsrooms are quietly publishing mountains of gambling slop
A large network of prominent regional newspapers has posted thousands of low-quality articles promoting gambling and prediction markets — and is pretending it's journalism.
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