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Kansas's In-State Tuition Law Was Struck Down in a Case Neither Side Wanted to Win
Staying to Keep the Oil and Ending the War Soon Are Two Different Plans
The Market Read the Essay as a Forecast for Chip Demand
The Patch Waited Six Weeks on Half the Servers. The Attackers Waited Four Days.
The Satellite Pictures Were Bought Before the Strike and Again After It
Gaza's Hospitals Run Entirely on Generators. Their Diesel Is Funded Until Saturday.
Seventy-Six Dead, and the Count Finally Closes at 132
Iran Says a Faction Ended the Truce. That Account Suits Everyone Telling It.
The Plan to Halve FEMA Lost in Court Because Nobody Wrote Down Why
Ellison's $7.5 Billion Sale Plan Was Private for Eleven Weeks and Public for One Day
Three Rivals Agreed to Slow Down. Only the First Step Needs No One's Permission.
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The Long ViewSaudi Arabia's Way Around Hormuz Is Shut, and Its Way Out of the Red Sea Is Held by the Houthis
The pipeline was never a complete bypass. It moved the Gulf's chokepoint problem to the other side of the Arabian Peninsula, and this weekend the other side acquired a chokepoint problem of its own.
A cargo ship at sea. About 12 percent of world trade passes the Bab al-Mandab, and the island that divides its two lanes changed hands this weekend. File photograph; not the location.
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A Hundred and Fifty Thousand Marched to Ban a Party That Just Won 44 Percent
The legal case for a ban gets stronger as the party gets bigger.
The Long View
The Toll Has Stopped Rising Because the Work Has Changed
A recovery operation ends and a slower one begins.
Infrastructure Everybody Depends On Should Not Be Owned by a Competitor
Coverage Should Follow the Approval, Not the Advice
You Cannot Delegate the Thing You Have Never Done
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Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
A travel ban designed to isolate officials also removes the people an inspection agency most needs to talk to.
Bangsamoro Voted for Its First Parliament. The Peace Deal Promised It Twelve Years Ago.
The conflict that produced the region cost an estimated 150,000 lives.
Sweden Voted on Whether the Far Right Should Govern, and the Far Right Went Backwards
The campaign turned into a vote on a single question: whether the party that had propped up the government from outside should sit inside it.
Three First Ministers Signed a Declaration of Self-Determination. None of Them Can Call a Vote.
For the first time every devolved government is led by a party committed to leaving the United Kingdom.
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The Import Ban Is the Headline. The Services List Is the Instrument.
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The $875m Bet Is That Inference Is a Memory Problem
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The Deal Was Structured to Avoid a Filing. The Filing Is Now the Investigation.
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Somebody Said It Out Loud. Nothing Changed for Ninety More Seconds.
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The Oil Curve Has Been Handed Something to Argue With
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Everything we have published, newest firstThey Called the Speed a Hundred and Two Seconds Before the Crash
The cockpit voice recorder from the Miami overrun runs to more than two hours of good audio. About a minute and forty-two seconds before impact, a pilot said the aircraft was going too fast, and kept saying so. The go-around was called seconds before the end. The gap between those two moments is the investigation.
A War With a Published End Date Is a Different War
Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the war with Iran "is going to end immediately after the election" on 3 November, and that Washington is no longer seeking a negotiated end. When the party most able to stop a war names the week it will stop, everyone else stops planning for an outcome and starts planning for a date.
The Most Expensive Decision Is the One You Reverse Halfway
Committing to a course and then reversing does not return you to where you started. It spends the resources of the first decision and starts the second from further back.
Publishing Has Been Planning for Fewer Buyers. It Should Plan for Fewer Readers.
A cohort that cannot comfortably read a long text is not a smaller audience for books. It is a smaller audience for everything that assumes sustained reading, which includes most of what serious culture is made of.
The Clause That Matters Is the One Sending Data Back
Contracts obtained through litigation describe four frontier labs each holding Defense Department agreements worth up to $200m, with bidirectional data exchange including model benchmarks and engineers embedded with the military. Procurement usually buys a product. This buys a relationship in both directions.
The Pump Is Where the Shock Reaches the Household
Brent above $100 arrives in a household budget faster than almost any other price. Headline inflation is expected near 3.4 percent while core is forecast to ease toward 2.4, and that gap is the whole question — because a family does not buy the core index.
A records law that works only for organisations able to sue is not a records law.
The Numbers
Fifty Thousand Measles Cases, and the Thousandth Child Has Died
Bangladesh has recorded more than 50,000 confirmed or suspected measles cases this year and child deaths have passed a thousand. Measles is the most contagious disease routinely encountered and one of the most completely preventable, which makes an outbreak of this size a measurement of a delivery system rather than of a virus.
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The Chipmaker Bought the Neutral Ground
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the hub through which a very large share of open models, datasets and tooling reaches developers, in a deal reported around $13bn. The platform's value came substantially from belonging to none of the hardware vendors. That property is what has just been bought.
Twenty-Eight Points of Reading, Which Is About a Year and a Half
A test score is an unpopular thing to take seriously. This one is measuring the same 15-year-olds in the same way it has for a quarter of a century, and it has stopped being a wobble.
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The Hormuz Closure15 stories
- 14 Sept Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
- 14 Sept Staying to Keep the Oil and Ending the War Soon Are Two Different Plans
- 14 Sept Saudi Arabia's Way Around Hormuz Is Shut, and Its Way Out of the Red Sea Is Held by the Houthis
- 14 Sept The Satellite Pictures Were Bought Before the Strike and Again After It
- 13 Sept Iran Says a Faction Ended the Truce. That Account Suits Everyone Telling It.
- 11 Sept The Market Was Offered an End Date and Bought the War Instead
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