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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine writer who won a civil case over allegations she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.

For many people, the past month has brought unpleasant echoes of COVID: Mysterious deaths aboard a cruise ship, a virus that causes a deadly respiratory illness and talk of forced quarantines. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatens to launch ‘decisive reciprocal response’ to any attack, a day after the US struck targets in southern Iran.

Experts say young people could be actively defying the warnings about sun exposure — after all, many grew up hearing them from parents, doctors, and in some cases, school programs. 

Pope Leo XIV has pleaded with world leaders to safeguard humanity from AI’s most disruptive effects.

The New York Times: The United States and Iran have signalled that they are moving closer to a deal to end the war in the Middle East.

The hantavirus outbreak on board a ship full of bird-watchers set off alarm bells for a world still traumatised by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Moral judgments should be made about Israel according to the same standards by which we judge other countries faced with similar circumstances. 

People did not always look down their noses at pigeons. Over the centuries, the domesticated birds played important roles as sources of food and fertiliser, as messengers and even as beloved companions.

The former defence minister and president of Cuba has been charged with murder by the US for his role in the downing of two planes in 1996.

The charges come with a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Few, if any, figures in recent history have caused as much legal, political, financial and reputational upheaval as Jeffrey Epstein.

The World Health Organisation has declared the rapid spread of a deadly virus a global health emergency.

A grand summit in Beijing is a natural time to assess the state of the US-China competition, the dynamics of great power conflict, the balance of forces in this new Cold — or maybe just Cool? — War.

Bumble is losing the feature that reshaped how we look for love. Daters may be ready for something more intentional.