Repeated encounters with a sitcom legend, a bad time to do the laundry and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
The New York Times
Published: May 6, 2019 at 03:00AM
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Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-health-russia.html?partner=IFTTT
RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming ‘5G Apocalypse.’
The New York Times
Published: May 12, 2019 at 03:00AM
They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html?partner=IFTTT
Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.
The New York Times
Published: May 12, 2019 at 03:00AM
When You Have 3 Children and Hundreds of Thousands of Constituents
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/10/us/women-congress-mothers-day.html?partner=IFTTT
After a historic wave of women was elected in November, voters have made it clear that they want political representatives whose families and life experiences reflect their own.
The New York Times
Published: May 10, 2019 at 03:00AM
Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html?partner=IFTTT
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
Harvard Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer as a Faculty Dean
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/ronald-sullivan-harvard.html?partner=IFTTT
Students in Winthrop House had called for the resignation of Robert S. Sullivan Jr., a law professor. He and his wife were the first African-American faculty deans in Harvard’s history.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
How a James Comey Tweet Fueled a Conspiracy Theory That Upended a California Town
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/grass-valley-james-comey-conspiracy.html?partner=IFTTT
A school was forced to cancel a fund-raiser after conspiracy theorists came calling.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/cold-case-genealogy-dna.html?partner=IFTTT
What does it actually take to identify a person through genetic genealogy? Wading through infidelities and pornography.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
A Half-Century of School Shootings Like Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/11/us/school-shootings-united-states.html?partner=IFTTT
A Times analysis of school shooting data identified hundreds of deaths and injuries across more than 100 episodes since 1970.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
Rudy Giuliani Cancels His Trip to Ukraine, Blaming Democrats’ ‘Spin’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-ukraine.html?partner=IFTTT
President Trump’s personal lawyer was facing withering criticism from Democrats who accused him of seeking foreign assistance for the president’s re-election campaign.
The New York Times
Published: May 11, 2019 at 03:00AM
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