How to Not Get Kidnapped for Your Bitcoin

Escaping zipties, hiring bodyguards and other practical lessons in self-defense for crypto traders, after a series of gruesome crimes spooked the community.

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The Celebrated Chef Who Robbed Banks

Valentino Luchin, 62, once owned an acclaimed Italian restaurant. Now he sits in a Bay Area jail.

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A New Generation of Gamblers Searches for Help

The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men. Are recovery efforts for problem gamblers lagging behind?

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A Grave Condition Caused by C-Sections Is on the Rise

Placenta accreta is a life-threatening condition in which the placenta attaches to scar tissue left by a C-section. It used to be extremely rare.

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We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.

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48 Hours Without A.I.

It’s everywhere, as the author learned the hard way while making as little contact as possible with machine learning and generative artificial intelligence.

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Jill Lepore: ‘Most Forms of Tyranny Do Come to an End’

The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”

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Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?

Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.

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Inside Luigi Mangione’s Missing Months

From beers at a Bangkok bar to a climb up Mount Omine in Japan, The Times traced the pivotal months before Mr. Mangione was charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s C.E.O.

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How Southern Politics Shaped Trumpism

Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics.

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