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Feb 25

Children stitch “Made in America” tags into shirts for J. Crew. They bake dinner rolls sold at Walmart and Target, process milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and help debone chicken sold at Whole Foods.

In the U.S., migrant child labor is everywhere. nyti.ms/3m7pqj2

As migrant children cross the border alone in record numbers, the Biden administration has ramped up pressure to release them to adults as quickly as possible. Most children are released to sponsors with no follow-up beyond a phone call.

In the rush, many migrant children end up working some of the most punishing jobs in the country.

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Feb 24

Portions of California are expected to receive snow measured in feet and winds gusting to near hurricane force (74 miles per hour or greater) over the next couple of days, leading to blizzard conditions. We’re tracking the storm. nyti.ms/3StL90H

Some mountains in Southern California could see rare snowfall totals of up to 7 feet, while other areas may get the first measurable snow in decades. Here’s how much snow to expect through Monday morning: nyti.ms/3StL90H

As the storm drifts south along the California coastline, it is expected to bring damaging winds across the state. Forecasters are expecting wind gusts of 55 to 75 m.p.h. across the mountains of Southern California, which would lead to whiteout conditions. nyti.ms/3StL90H

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Feb 23

After Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, the West formed what looked like an overwhelming global coalition to isolate Russia, but the West never won over as much of the world as it initially seemed. nyti.ms/3ItR94K

141 countries supported a U.N. measure demanding that Russia unconditionally withdraw; only four nations backed Russia. But 47 countries abstained or missed the vote, and many of them have since provided economic or diplomatic support for Russia. nyti.ms/3ItR94K

And even some of the nations that initially agreed to denounce Russia see the war as a European and American problem — and have since started moving toward a more neutral position. nyti.ms/3ItR94K

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Feb 23

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In “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” @Kim_Barker revisits the unsolved murder of Shelli Wiley that took place in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. Kim looks into the man they arrested and why the case against him fell apart. Listen to all eight parts: nyti.ms/3SwjiwY

You can find our new show with Serial by searching "The Coldest Case in Laramie" on Apple Podcasts (nyti.ms/3XUrdoL), Spotify (nyti.ms/3ExrDuh), Stitcher (nyti.ms/3Ky5os5), or wherever you get your podcasts.

On Episode 1, Kim Barker reaches out to Shelli Wiley's family to get a sense of their suspicions about Fred Lamb, the former officer who Laramie police arrested for Shelli's murder, and their theories about why prosecutors dropped the case against him. nyti.ms/3YU5zm3

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Feb 17

Is that tweet, essay or news article you’re reading written by artificial intelligence software? Is that idea that’s going viral across the internet spreading organically, or have the posts been generated by A.I. to create the appearance of real traction? nyti.ms/415yWmU

Identifying A.I.-generated text is becoming increasingly difficult. When A.I. software writes, it considers options for each word, assigning a score to each. It quantifies how likely the word is to come next based on the human-written text it has analyzed. nyti.ms/415yWmU

A.I. software, like ChatGPT, then chooses a word with a high score, and moves on to the next one. Every choice it makes is determined by complex math and huge amounts of data. So much so that it often produces text that is both coherent and accurate. nyti.ms/415yWmU

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Feb 15

After China ended “zero Covid,” the world’s most stringent Covid-19 restrictions, the virus exploded. Rough estimates from four separate academic teams suggest that between 1 and 1.5 million people died — far more than the official count. nyti.ms/3XDmLKW

China’s official Covid death toll for the entire pandemic remains strikingly low: 83,150 people as of Feb. 9. Here are informed guesses made by four separate academic teams. They have converged on broadly similar estimates. nyti.ms/3XDmLKW

China’s official numbers would give it the lowest death rate of any major country over the pandemic. But these estimated levels of death rates would surpass many Asian countries that never clamped down as long or as aggressively. nyti.ms/3XDmLKW

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