I have spent the past few decades collecting what I consider to be a stylish wardrobe — much of which is black in color. While I love black’s versatility and timelessness, I am starting to feel like I am in a rut, and would like to break out a bit. What can I do to…
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From pocket-stretching smartphones to wall-hogging TVs, Americans have often asked: How much screen is too much? The question has come to today’s gadget-stuffed cars, whose increasingly colossal screens are splitting opinions among designers, car buyers and industry critics. These do-it-all touch screens, the nerve centers of many new cars, have sparked a backlash because of…
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A federal judge’s ruling to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses threats to the U.S. government’s regulatory authority that could go far beyond one drug, legal experts say. The decision by a Texas judge appears to be the first time a court has moved toward ordering removal…
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RALEIGH, N.C. — People who watch politics in North Carolina say that Phil Berger, a Republican who calls himself a fiscal conservative and a “social traditionalist,” is the most powerful man in the state. For years, as the top Republican in the State Senate, he blocked North Carolina from expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care…
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It may be the best art deal in town. The New York Academy of Art held its annual Tribeca Ball on April 4, where established collectors got to roam the art studios upstairs and buy work from 100 current students. Afterward, guests sat down for a filet mignon dinner that honored Amy Sherald, the figurative…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. In 2004, as a high school student in Rochester, N.Y., Eve Lyons found freedom listening to Radiohead in the car with her friends. There are certain rites of passage that accompany the precious and formative…
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WASHINGTON — The dramatic dueling rulings by two federal district judges on Friday about access to a widely used abortion pill set up a lower court conflict that legal experts say will almost certainly send the dispute to the Supreme Court. “It really turbocharges the imperative for the Supreme Court to step in and to…
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This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On New Year’s Day in 1922, a scientific paper in an obscure medical journal described a drug that would help revolutionize the treatment of leprosy in Hawaii and beyond. It would also…
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The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. But there are a lot of uncertainties — especially because a federal…
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