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The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last walked out in 1994. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/nyregion/new-york-legal-aid-society-strike.html

What’s the real cost of motherhood? Here’s what our readers said. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/motherhood-penalty-career.html

The band Bob Vylan led a crowd in a chant of “Death, death to the I.D.F.” while performing at Glastonbury, Britain’s biggest music festival. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/world/europe/bob-vylan-idf-palestine-glastonbury.html

Attacks, such as an assassination in Minnesota, are on the rise. Their motives are often hard to parse. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/political-violence-minnesota-assassination.html

He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/arts/music/lalo-schifrin-dead.html

The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/climate/hurricane-monitoring-data.html

He represented the lofty as well as the low. His credits included the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest and the obligatory raincoat to keep a defendant’s cuffed hands covered in a “perp walk.” source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/mortimer-matz-dead.html

The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/uber-travis-kalanick-self-driving-car-deal.html

Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a recorded video. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/tanner-martin-dead-cancer-tiktok.html

Mamdani won in parts of the city people wouldn’t normally expect. Democrats should pay attention to his positive message and laser focus on costs. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-primary-victory.html

It’s not just miserable. It hurts productivity, military readiness, agriculture and health. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/heat-wave-climate.html

Just before Jake Rosencranz, 29, of Denver, was struck while standing in ankle-deep water in New Smyrna Beach, two people were struck at a golf course in the area. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/lightning-kills-man-florida-honeymoon.html

France’s Interior Ministry reported that 145 people said they had been stabbed with needles at festival events across the country. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/europe/france-syringe-attacks-music-festival.html

The original space adventure sold about $21 million in tickets at domestic theaters from Thursday night through Sunday, putting new pressure on the once-unstoppable studio. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/business/elio-pixar-box-office.html

Let’s not confuse ourselves about where the primary responsibility lies. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/political-violence-right-wing.html

Birds build nests out of whatever they find. Today, that includes trash. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/birds-nests-plastic-trash.html

The Forsyth fire in Utah threatened a small community in the state’s southwest corner. Farther west, the Conner fire burned rapidly near Lake Tahoe. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/weather/windy-conditions-fan-wildfires-in-the-west.html

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science/vera-rubin-telescope-data.html

The evidence is stacking up that the drug is associated with a greater likelihood of heart problems. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/well/marijuana-heart-health-risks.html

The Swiss National Bank lowered rates to zero after consumer prices fell last month. Other European central banks are grappling with uncertainty caused by President Trump’s tariffs. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/zero-interest-rates-europe-trump.html

A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase could make it hard for Republicans to maintain their fiscal hawk credibility. source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/national-debt-limit-republicans.html

The clash of conservative titans had Meyers feeling like a Roman emperor: “I just want someone to feed me grapes while I say, ‘Let them fight.’” source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/arts/television/seth-meyers-tucker-carlson-ted-cruz.html