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Nearly a decade after Pachinko, Min Jin Lee returns with a vast novel about a family that stakes everything on education. It moves at the speed of saving money — slowly, stubbornly, then all at once.
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Meta's new business terms let it crawl websites associated with any business account and, until Saturday, use what it found to train its products. The word is gone now. The crawling permission isn't.
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A hundred years after Willem de Kooning stowed away from Rotterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum has brought more than 120 of his drawings, paintings and sculptures back to the Netherlands — and hung two of his most famous canvases a few rooms from the Night Watch.
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Congressional maps are supposed to last a decade. This year, voters in nine states will cast midterm ballots in districts drawn mid-decade — the product of a fourteen-month fight that began in Texas, was answered in California, and was reshaped twice by the Supreme Court.
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A month of school protests over missing teachers met a country squeezed by prices, and on Saturday 17 October France had its worst unrest in years — a town hall burned, thousands of shops looted, some 2,400 people arrested. The government now has to calm the streets with an empty treasury.
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ECCO, Italy's climate think tank, says the country has met just 15 per cent of its 2030 energy transition targets. Renewables are being added at about 7 gigawatts a year where 10 are needed, emissions rose in 2025, and the electric car fleet stands at roughly a tenth of its 2030 objective.
A month of school protests over missing teachers met a country squeezed by prices, and on Saturday 17 October France had its worst unrest in years — a town hall burned, thousands of shops looted, some 2,400 people arrested. The government now has to calm the streets with an empty treasury.
On Wednesday 7 October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan, for work that explains how one of life's strangest features — its one-handedness — can arise on its own (Reuters). Heiner Linke, who chairs the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, put the claim plainly: the pair "have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously" (LCGC International).
Nearly a decade after Pachinko, Min Jin Lee returns with a vast novel about a family that stakes everything on education. It moves at the speed of saving money — slowly, stubbornly, then all at once.
A hundred years after Willem de Kooning stowed away from Rotterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum has brought more than 120 of his drawings, paintings and sculptures back to the Netherlands — and hung two of his most famous canvases a few rooms from the Night Watch.
In February 2026 the Sagrada Família's central tower topped out at 172.5 metres, making Gaudí's basilica the tallest church in the world. The cranes, however, are staying — the main entrance façade has not been built yet.
Boris Lurie never showed the most personal paintings of his life. He made them in 1946, fresh out of the camps, and then kept them private for the remaining six decades he lived. Those works — nearly a hundred paintings and drawings — now sit at the centre of Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try, at the Maltz Museum in Beachwood, Ohio.
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