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Rwanda in Early Talks With U.S. to Take Expelled Migrants

admin5 May 2025

Discussions with the Central African country come as the Trump administration looks for more countries willing to accept deportees as part of a sweeping crackdown.

I Brake for Robins

admin5 May 2025

It’s full-on springtime now. My blackberries are sending out new canes, and the passion vines have broken ground. The nestlings in the bluebird box are old enough for their cries to be heard across the yard. The front-stoop skinks are awake, the ...

Is This Late-Night TV’s Last Gasp?

admin5 May 2025

John Mulaney describes his weekly Netflix talk show as “a throwback in some ways.” Indeed, it seems to draw inspiration from numerous 20th-century late-night hosts, from Dick Cavett to David Letterman to Conan O’Brien. “It’s almost like the way you ...

At This Humble Used Car Lot, Tariffs Are Beginning to Sting

admin5 May 2025

Antonio Austin spotted the car from 100 yards away — red dirt caked onto tinted windows, the front bumper gone, smoke billowing out from under the hood. “Damn, I hate this car,” he said. He had sold the 2012 Dodge Avenger almost a year earlier for a ...

Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League

admin4 May 2025

There it was for all to see, President Trump’s tangled relationship with the Ivy League, delivered in a burst at his rally in Michigan on Tuesday night. “He’s the top,” the president said of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV celebrity doctor he chose to oversee ...

Where Would Hollywood Find Its Guillotines or Pay Phones Without Them?

admin4 May 2025

When the Netflix series “Wednesday” needed a guillotine recently, it did not have to venture far. A North Hollywood prop house called History for Hire had one available, standing more than eight feet high with a suitably menacing blade. (The business ...