Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trump-stages-an-oval-office-mugging
Ahead of her new album and tour, pop titan Kesha says she wants to start a new platform called Smash that helps artists connect, collaborate, and collectively heal the wounds of the past.https://www.wired.com/story/kesha-smash/
The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank improved their survival oddshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/clownfish-shrink-down-their-bodies-to-survive-ocean-heat-waves-new-study-suggests-180986676/
After years of excavation and study, archaeologists have restored the Küsterberg burial site to its original layout to celebrate the annual European Day of Megalithic Culturehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-german-town-carefully-reconstructed-a-5500-year-old-megalithic-monument-180986648/
Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on Mount Wilhelm in Papua New Guineahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-first-photos-and-videos-of-the-rare-subalpine-woolly-rat-a-massive-but-elusive-rodent-in-new-guineas-mountains-180986677/
The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research triphttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-shape-shifting-dumbo-octopus-has-been-discovered-in-the-deep-sea-off-the-coast-of-australia-180986668/
The artifacts were buried in the graves of a young woman and child, who may have converted to Christianity in Africa before traveling to the region, researchers sayhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-two-rare-african-figurines-in-1500-year-old-christian-burials-in-israel-180986656/
The guests were the biggest investors in President Trump’s memecoin, and they were greeted with chants of “shame” as they arrived at Trump National Golf Course.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-memecoin-dinner.html
The president of South Africa’s wisecrack about a free plane spoke volumes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html
The move was a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump’s demands.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
Fear and confusion mounted quickly on Thursday as international students, who make up more than a quarter of the university’s enrollment, sought clarity or reassurance.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-international-students-trump.html
The Trump administration is relying on an obscure bureaucratic lever to stop the school, the latest in a series of aggressive moves.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-international-students-trump-sevis.html
The university has previously been the target of more $400 million in federal funding cuts.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-columbia-accusation.html
In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/supreme-court-religious-charter-school-oklahoma.html
The inquiry is the latest attempt to apply the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban to K-12 education.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/trump-fairfax-virginia-schools-investigation.html
Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said. Mr. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring, an official said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/world/middleeast/israel-embassy-dc-shooting-victims-sarah-milgrim-yaron-lischinsky.html
A day after a man with a history of pro-Palestinian activism shot two Israeli Embassy workers — a couple on the cusp of becoming engaged — many in the community are still processing what happened.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/shooting-israeli-embassy-washington-dc-vigil.html
The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, was charged with gunning down two Israeli Embassy workers outside a Jewish museum in Washington. Here is what we know about him.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/dc-shooting-suspect-israel-embassy-aides.html
Has anything really changed at drive-in theaters across the country? A photographer based in Bozeman, Mont., visited a few to find out.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/travel/drive-in-theaters-america.html
Senate Republicans say changes are coming for the sprawling domestic policy bill carrying President Trump’s agenda. Their colleagues who took political risks to push it through the House might not like them.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/senate-republicans-budget-vote.html