Instead of hourlong specials, these bite-sized sets let you in on one of comedy’s biggest secrets: the funniest stand-ups are the ones you’ve never heard of.

A Netflix Experiment Gives Deserving Comics Their 15 Minutes

Everything about the weeklong Caribbean cruise is meant to buff life’s unpleasant edges into sea glass. If it sounds like I am making fun, I am not. I love it. 

Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool

The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town’s churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home.

An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines

A subplot in the new season of Netflix’s wrestling comedy speaks to today by showing how little the moves of Hollywood’s harassers have changed.

‘GLOW’ Brings #MeToo to the 1980s

In Maryland, a state employee is training dogs to inspect hives for harmful bacteria — a crucial job as honeybees are sent around the country to pollinate crops.

With a Sniff and a Signal, These Dogs Hunt Down Threats to Bees 

The Justice and Education Departments will encourage the nation’s schools and universities to adopt race-blind admissions policies.

Trump Officials Reverse Obama’s Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools

Even before President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee is announced, partisan groups have flooded Facebook and other social networks with political ads over the pick.

Facebook Ads Offer Peek at Looming Supreme Court Fight

More than half of all states have approved marijuana for medical uses, yet winning over landlords and neighbors is an uphill battle for dispensaries.

Despite State Blessing, Marijuana Dispensaries Face Local Rancor

European auto manufacturers are among the biggest employers in some Republican strongholds.

Trump Voters May Be the Biggest Losers From Trump’s Auto Tariffs

In spite of Republican attacks, the insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act are stubbornly resilient. While consumers can expect sharp price increases in some areas, premiums are going up modestly in others. 

Obamacare Is Proving Hard to Kill

A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry’s biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.

Silicon Valley’s Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge

Demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities across the country as the right-wing governing party consolidated its power and escalated a clash with the European Union.

Poland Purges Supreme Court, and Protesters Take to Streets

Some 700 people wandered among percussionists who were scattered around the Caramoor festival grounds playing John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit.”

Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday

A new tool allows researchers to manipulate molecules in three dimensions, recalling physical models used to visualize forests of atoms in the past.

It’s Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.

“I did not write the article because of my experience, but it ran parallel to Josh’s, just with a different ending.”

When Reporting on Mail-In Genetic Testing Comes Home

Tatiana R. Martins, the head of the public corruption unit in the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, will join the law firm Davis Polk as a partner.

Prosecutor Who Oversaw Michael Cohen Inquiry Leaves Government

The decision to head to the fertility clinic for women in a study had more to do with an absence of suitable partners and little to do with getting ahead at work.

Lots of Successful Women Are Freezing Their Eggs. But It May Not Be About Their Careers. 

Barn owls have simpler brains than primates, but they can process information about things moving in their environment in a similarly complex way.

Owls See the World Much Like We Do

Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Quotation of the Day: Mexican Vote Is Latest Rejection of the Status Quo in Latin America

During the World Cup, Read These 3 Books About Soccer

It was found among 1,500 works, some of them Nazi-looted, that Cornelius Gurlitt had hoarded inside his homes in Austria and Germany.

French and Swiss Museums to Share a Cézanne With a Murky Past

The Swiss company said it had received a request for documents related to its dealings in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela.

Glencore’s Shares Drop After Justice Department Subpoena

Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.

Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Exfoliating your roots — with everything from charcoal scrubs to sea salt cleansers — delivers a deeper kind of clean.

How to Detox Your Scalp for Healthier Hair

Dean Baquet, the paper’s executive editor, said Ali Watkins, whose email and phone records were seized by the Trump administration, will be moved from the Washington bureau to a new beat in New York.

July 3, 2018

Headlines from July 3, 2018

A Netflix Experiment Gives Deserving Comics Their 15 Minutes

Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool

An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines

‘GLOW’ Brings #MeToo to the 1980s

With a Sniff and a Signal, These Dogs Hunt Down Threats to Bees

Billboard 200

Youngblood

EVERYTHING IS LOVE

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beerbongs & bentleys

Nasir

Historical Context for July 3, 2018