Tip your bartender nytimes.com/2022/01/12/us/…

⁦A judge convicted an 18-year-old for raping a 16-year-old girl at a party then reversed the verdict, saying the man was punished enough. The fault, he said, lay with adults who let teens drink and girls to swim in their underwear. isabella grullón paz nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…

An underwater mapping project recently took an unexpected twist off Tahiti, where deep sea explorers said this week that they had discovered a sprawling coral reef resembling a bed of roses that appeared to be largely unscathed by climate change. nytimes.com/2022/01/20/sci…

Copies of two hotly anticipated cookbooks may be sitting at the bottom of the ocean after a shipping accident sent dozens of containers tumbling into the sea. nytimes.com/2022/01/29/us/…

Georgetown University’s law school placed a newly hired administrator on leave on Monday after he said on Twitter that President Biden would nominate not “the objectively best pick” but a “lesser Black woman” to be the next Supreme Court justice. nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/…

The exchange highlighted the tension between open public records and privacy. By Neil Vigdor nytimes.com/2022/02/03/tec…

The kicker: "Regardless, The Battalion will print on Thursday, Feb. 17."

A Pennsylvania man who hosted what he described as “the alt-right’s favorite firearms-related podcast” was, along with his father, indicted on several gun charges, including owning machine guns and unregistered silencers, according to federal prosecutors. nyti.ms/3oKoS17

Fifty years ago, the United States sent China two musk oxen. In return, China shipped two pandas to the National Zoo nytimes.com/2022/02/13/wor…

A wealthy woman has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies over secret videos and photos she made of children in intimate situations at her home in the Belle Haven enclave of Greenwich, Conn. The court record was sealed over an A.P. reporter’s objection. nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyr…

Authorities in Miami say a woman used part of a $15,000 P.P.P. loan to pay a hit man. nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/…

“Making a donation to improve a qualified applicant’s chances of admission is a well-established process at colleges and universities across the country, and is still in use today,” Mr. Francisco said. “It is not a crime.”

Matt Farah received disappointing news about his 2022 frozen-berry metallic Boxster Spyder, retail price: $123,000: “I just got a call from my dealer. My car is now adrift, possibly on fire, in the middle of the ocean.” By Vimal Patel nytimes.com/2022/02/17/wor…

Young people who marched and organized during the civil rights movement are now in their 70s and 80s. With fewer and fewer remaining, historians are rushing to record their stories. nytimes.com/2022/02/19/us/…

Sergey Korenev is running out of time. His mother is alone outside of Kyiv, and the Russians are closing in on her neighborhood. He’s on his way to find her, and get her out of the country. Then he’s joining the war “They are my brothers in arms” theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

A gunman targeting homeless people has in recent days shot five or six men — two fatally — as they slept in the streets of Lower Manhattan and Washington, D.C., police in both cities said. Andy Newman Vimal Patel report: nytimes.com/2022/03/13/nyr…

Even trees are political now. nytimes.com/2022/03/24/wor….

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