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2. According to the report, what are two examples of times that President Trump lied or tried to get his staff to lie about matters related to the Mueller investigation? 3. The authors write: The president has spent the past two years denouncing the news media. He has repeatedly accused reporters of making up sources…

In “Best Albums of 2019,” Times critics give their top picks for 2019. Here, for instance, is the music critic Jon Pareles’s No. 1 choice:Billie Eilish, ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’The weird outsider became a popular girl in 2019. The songs of Billie Eilish, 17, are death-haunted and depressive, by turns…

Note: This is the last Film Club for the 2021-22 school year. Our regular features will resume on September 8.In the coming days, the number of known deaths from Covid-19 in the United States is expected to reach one million. It is a stark and staggering number, but the emotional toll on the survivors is…

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Going FurtherThough the Senate unanimously passed the bill, some lawmakers had criticisms of it. The Times reports: In the final measure, most Republicans agreed to Democrats’ demands for a substantial expansion of jobless benefits, including $600 extra per week on top of the usual amount provided by states.On Wednesday afternoon, four Republican senators said they…

We’re kind of obsessed with this graph. It shows the percentage of Americans who say immigrants strengthen the United States. We’re all familiar with this end. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on anything. But what was happening down at this end? How did we start so close and get to: “Build that wall. Build that…

In “Best Albums of 2021,” Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz reviewed Tyler, the Creator’s album “Call Me if You Get Lost.”A life of luxury can’t mollify Tyler, the Creator. He’s no longer the trolling provocateur he was a decade ago when he emerged with Odd Future, but he’s still intransigent and high-concept. After…

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