More than one in three female undergraduate students at Cornell reported nonconsensual sexual contact in their time at the school — this story looks at that and what other universities report in similar surveys. Pitched and contributed to this story [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Cornell survey showed increase in reports of nonconsensual sexual contact among female undergrads

The findings are receiving renewed attention after the local districts attorney said it was reopening a criminal investigation into an alleged 2024 gang rape at the university.

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JOBS: CNBC is hiring: 1. A data viz journalist jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744... 2. A senior editor for data viz jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744...

Got to help Rob Wile on this charty piece (which is *not* behind the NBC News paywall) showing how key economic indicators have changed since the Iran war started [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

The U.S. economy before and after the Iran war, in five charts

Nearly seven months in, the conflict now casts a cloud of uncertainty — with no end in sight.

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"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care... Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S." [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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New: Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus

Covid infection counts are increasing in more than half the country.

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If you've never seen the magic of cellular automata, follow @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

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there is some really organic material in here, but it's all enforced via 8 neighbor checks.

This headline! h/t @danielarkin.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

U.S. gas price averages, per AAA: Regular up 4 cents from yesterday (up $1.38 / 46% since the start of the war), at $4.36. Regular is up 30 cents from a month ago. Diesel up 5 cents from yesterday (up $2.56 / 68% since the start of the war), at $6.31. Diesel up 87 cents from a month ago.

I'm in a long-running fantasy football league, and two years ago I cooked up a metric, the ”Luck Rating,” measuring how lucky each team's outcome was based on their score. Last year I started charting this data in earnest, and here's (a small part of) the dashboard I built. #dataViz

NEW: On Trump’s $5,000 checks promise —He’s made this vow before on DOGE and tariff dividends, which never materialized; not clear why this time will be different —No detailed White House policy plan on how it’d work or how they’d pay for it. —Mixed GOP reviews. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump’s $5,000 checks promise: Familiar, costly and impractical, experts say

Legal experts, economists and even Trump’s fellow Republicans say the plan faces a bevy of practical obstacles and long odds in Congress.

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NBC News reached out to photographers and photo editors to reflect on 9/11-era images, what it took to capture them and the lasting impact. @chelseastahl.bsky.social for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/s...

Powerful 9/11 photographs, and what it took to capture them

NBC News reached out to photographers and photo editors to reflect on 9/11-era images, what it took to capture them and the lasting impact.

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NEW: House Democrat asks regulators to investigate Tesla over sleeping drivers www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

House Democrat asks regulators to investigate Tesla over sleeping drivers

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said an NBC News investigation last month about napping drivers raised concerns about the safeguards meant to ensure they are paying attention.

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Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com with a thorough piece on international student enrollment in the U.S., and why U.S. higher education expects a significant drop in the number of international students: [paywall]

After Nebraska adopted an algorithm to assess the needs of people with developmental disabilities, more than 900 had their home care slashed—leaving families terrified their loved ones could be forced into institutions. A preview of what could soon be coming nationally after Trump’s Medicaid cuts.

A secretive computer algorithm is taking caregiving money away from disabled people

After Nebraska used a new interRAI tool to slash Medicaid funding for nearly 900 people, NBC News uncovered the hidden logic behind some of the cuts.

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Canada added tariffs to several hundred U.S. imports, those tariffs went into effect today. These are three of the Canadian imports the U.S. imposed tariffs on last month, part of this @amowreader.com report on the raging trade war. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

"It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track... In other words, even as the economy continues to grow, worker pay comprises an ever smaller slice of the pie." [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record

Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have climbed just 12.5%.

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A woodcut from the first Labor Day parade (Sept. 5, 1882), in NYC, as it passed the reviewing stands at Union Square Park. Holiday history: www.dol.gov/general/labo... About that particular parade: science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

This is the first time in NBC News Decision Desk polling that the percentage of Republicans who say they "strongly" approve of Trump’s job performance has dipped below 50%. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Big shoutout to @amowreader.com, who just finished her internship on the Data / Graphics team here at NBC News. She'll be on the job market come January and if you're looking for a data journalist who can report, interview, write, visualize, analyze and pitch like a pro, give Ashley a holler.

NBC News’ politics team is hiring journalists to be presidential candidate campaign embeds in the upcoming 2028 election cycle. Maybe you know someone, maybe you are that someone. Pay is $80,000-$95,000/year for this contract position. Deadline is Sept. 25. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/NBCUniversal...

Political Campaign Embed

Company Description: NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and stre...

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Exclusive numbers on August ICE arrests from @nbcnews.com: "ICE is in the midst of a nationwide arrest surge that is not as visible as aggressive enforcement efforts from earlier in 2026..." [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE arrests 50 thousand people in August, continuing record pace

ICE is in the midst of a nationwide arrest surge that is not as visible as aggressive enforcement efforts from earlier in 2026.

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I don't usually (don't ever?) post individual songs here but there is a groove in the heart of this Grant Green track and the places where that lil' groove pokes its lil' head out and dances around are just delightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLBT...

Grant Green - Ain't It Funky Now

YouTube video by nedryarson

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We took a deep dive into what is (and isn't) happening with Social Security's retirement benefits, why we are in the place we're in (demographics, mostly) and how it all could play out. Reporting, visuals and words by @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Social Security insolvency: What it means, when it’s coming and why it’s a problem

But depending on how Congress acts, future payouts of Social Security benefits may be smaller.

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New from @amowreader.com: New data from LinkedIn shows women made up only one-quarter of new hires in AI roles in 2025 while making up half of new hires in non-AI jobs. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

The AI boom is leaving women behind

Data shows women are less likely to hold AI jobs and more likely to be in AI-vulnerable jobs.

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"The cost of living in America has surged in recent years. So has the cost of dying." @spettypi.bsky.social for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/business/per...

Even death is unaffordable in America now

Funeral credit cards, rented caskets, Amazon urns: Here’s how Americans are coping with the rising cost of dying.

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Two measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania, in a county that has one of the lowest rates of childhood MMR vaccinations in the state, declining from 95.5% in 2017 to 88.5% in 2024 and 87.6% in 2025 [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak, health officials say

The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in the U.S. this year.

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Measles case counts are surging in Pennsylvania, the CDC has confirmed more than 200 new cases in the state since July 23.[no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Map: Track the spread of measles in the U.S.

Measles case counts, which reached a 34-year high in 2025, have soared even higher in 2026.

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SCOOP: A Trump-aligned think tank, America First Policy Institute, has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...

Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

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There are 72 million children in the U.S. (per 2025 Census Bureau population estimates), more than (roughly) 10 million of those children are in families that get food stamps. Now, at least 1 million of those kids are going without SNAP (food stamp) benefits [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts

The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.

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Useful: @muckrock.com released a big update to its monitor-a-web-page-for-changes tool Klaxon, which includes browser extensions ( chromewebstore.google.com/detail/klaxo... , addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... ) and a new website ( www.klaxoncloud.org ).

Klaxon Cloud

Klaxon notifies you when the pages you care about change.

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