Beehive deliveries keep New Yorkers buzzing on rooftops, backyards

Bees are thriving in New York hives. The city offers them a welcome variety of flowers and fewer pesticides than on rural farms.

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As Myanmar protests continue, a glimmer of greater unity

Myanmar’s crackdown after the Feb. 1. military coup has laid bare military violence for the majority – violence long understood by ethnic minorities.

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‘An enormous waste’: How stimulus checks play in red-state America

Many see the relief bill as padded with unnecessary items, further ballooning the national debt even as the economic outlook is improving.

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When is a grocery store not a grocery store? When it’s a palace.

In Soviet Moscow, Eliseevsky grocery store was alone in having full shelves. Today only its decor distinguishes it. The shop closes this weekend.

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In Ethiopia’s war, a retreat worthy of African ideals

A leader’s admission of atrocities in Tigray fulfills a principle of accountability.

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Is it art? NFTs and the surge of digital ownership.

Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are monetizing freely available digital items by placing valuation on the idea rather than the possession of an object.

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Amazon secures majority of votes to block Alabama union effort

Amazon has secured the majority of votes to block a union effort in Alabama. The push to unionize was the biggest in the company’s 26-year history, and only the second time that an organizing effort from within the company had come to a vote.

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Are vaccine passports legal in the US? Five questions.

Vaccine passports have become the latest question to divide the U.S., raising charged legal and ethical questions.

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How work-from-home policies are driving up housing prices

Freed from the office, Americans are on the move, heating up the housing market. But the hurdles to homeownership remain highest for first-time buyers who don’t have profits from a prior home sale to compete in bidding wars.

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Is the political scandal dead? Gaetz, Cuomo scoff at resigning.

As Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz finds himself embroiled in a federal sex trafficking probe, politicians from both parties in recent years have ignored calls to resign amid allegations of impropriety, pushing through scandals that might previously have sunk them.

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