The jury in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein has sent a note to Justice James A. Burke saying it has reached a verdict. The verdict remains unknown for now, and the jurors are beginning to assemble in the courtroom at State Supreme Court in…

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They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, whose death at 101 was announced on Monday by NASA…

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Top leadership at the progressive news network The Young Turks held an all-staff meeting at its office in Culver City, California, on Feb. 12. The regularly scheduled gathering was supposed to deal with personnel matters, but instead the focus…

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The two major policy pitches for the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1972 were clear: an immediate end to the Vietnam War, and an immediate guarantee of a minimum income for all Americans. George McGovern ran for president…

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Last year, the cookbook author and Netflix star Samin Nosrat left her longtime rental apartment in Berkeley and moved into a crisp, white-panelled cottage in Oakland. Her new home is nearly invisible from the street; to get to it, you have to go…

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