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Jan 29

Democrats complained, for much of the last decade, that Republicans and their allies were spending hundreds of millions of difficult-to-trace dollars to influence politics. "Dark money" became a dirty word.

Then came the 2020 election.

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Donors and allies of the Democratic Party, spurred by opposition to President Trump, embraced dark money with fresh zeal in 2020, surpassing Republicans in spending by some measures, according to a New York Times analysis.
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The findings reveal the growth and ascendancy of a shadow political infrastructure that is reshaping U.S. politics, as megadonors to these nonprofits take advantage of loose disclosure laws to give millions of dollars in total secrecy.
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Jan 28

We have plenty of recipes for your air fryer, which seems to have supplanted the microwave and humble toaster oven as the favored countertop cooking device. nytimes.com/2022/01/25/din…

French fries, made with a lot less oil, may be one of the main reasons that air fryers were invented. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/102012…

Sticky, fiery and impossible to stop eating, these air-fried chicken wings are easier and less messy than deep-fried wings. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/102012…

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Jan 28

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Inside the battle to control Pegasus, the world’s most powerful cyberweapon: A yearlong investigation by @ronenbergman and @MarkMazzettiNYT reveals how Israel used sales of the spyware to advance its interests around the world. nyti.ms/3IO04fU

Pegasus promises what no one else can: to crack encrypted messages on iPhones and Androids.

For nearly a decade, the Israeli firm NSO has sold it to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. Access helped Israel win votes in the UN and to reach an accord with Arab adversaries.

Pegasus has helped Mexican authorities capture El Chapo. European investigators have used Pegasus to thwart terrorist plots, fight organized crime and take down a global child-abuse ring. But the spyware's abuses have also been well-documented. nyti.ms/3IO04fU

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Jan 27

When Amy Schneider's 40-day "Jeopardy!" winning streak ended Wednesday, she left as the most successful woman to compete on the show, having won $1,382,800. nyti.ms/3KNMawa

Schneider's continued success on "Jeopardy!" meant that once her episodes started taping at the end of September, she was competing in five games a day, twice a week for several consecutive weeks, commuting from Oakland to Los Angeles. nyti.ms/3KNMawa

By the time Schneider filmed her last episode on Nov. 9, she had taken a demotion at work, used all her paid time off and taken several unpaid days to keep her job as a software engineer. But in the process, she became a legend for both "Jeopardy!" fans and former contestants.

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Jan 24

1/ What would you ask yourself in a year? That’s what the Headway team wants to know.

Here’s why they’re asking… nyti.ms/3AzTJlx

2/ In December, the New York Times’s Headway team asked people to review predictions from decades ago about extreme poverty, the spread of HIV, carbon emissions and other big challenges and to guess at how the future had played out.

They made a quiz: nyti.ms/3G9JHZX

3/ Headway asked our readers what had surprised them about the outcomes.

Many of the thousand-plus responses they received said the quiz caused them to question whether they had been too pessimistic about the world. nyti.ms/3G9JHZX

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Jan 20

In laying out the sedition charge against Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, and 10 others, federal prosecutors built a timeline as proof of a conspiracy to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.

Here's a look at the evidence. nyti.ms/3tLIXHx

Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers and affiliates are accused of recruiting participants, planning paramilitary combat training, coordinating travel, teams and logistics and taking weapons to the Washington, D.C., area. nyti.ms/3tLIXHx

62 days before Jan. 6: Rhodes urged his followers in an encrypted group chat to refuse to accept the 2020 presidential election results. The group included the head of Florida Oath Keepers chapter, Kelly Meggs. nyti.ms/3tLIXHx

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