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Thousands of Homeless New Yorkers Could Be Treated as Legal Tenants

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08/28/2017

Thousands of homeless New Yorkers who get free shelter in apartment complexes throughout the city could be treated as legal tenants — protected by rent regulations and lower rent caps — under a potentially precedent-setting case brought by the Legal...

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Donors Offer Berkshire Museum $1 Million To Delay, Study Art Sale; Board President Turns It Down

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08/28/2017

A group that emerged Friday has company in wanting the Berkshire Museum to hit the brakes on a planned auction. But what it put on the table may stand alone: $1 million.

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'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened

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08/28/2017

Key players in the Trump administration have advised Mr. Trump to wind down the DACA program, and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has informed him he considers it unconstitutional and cannot defend it in court.

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Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change

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08/28/2017

The one bright spot amid the generally gloomy news about climate change, and the Trump administration’s resistance to doing anything about it, is the determination of a number of state governments to take action on their own.

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Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?

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08/28/2017

Climate scientists, who specialize in thinking about the Earth system as a whole, are often reticent to link any one weather event to global climate change. But they say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey—and the recent history of tropical...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ranks of science majors, and...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

The British media company, The Guardian, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy.

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Syria’s War Created Millions Of Refugees. Some Might Be Forced To Return Home.

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08/28/2017

As Syrian refugees begin to trickle back to a homeland still at war, aid agencies fear that a proposed change to U.N. guidelines could accelerate the pace of returns.

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Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control

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08/28/2017

Efforts to reduce nuclear stockpiles soon may get a boost from a team of Princeton University researchers and a socially responsible gaming company that are seeking to use virtual reality to help improve systems to discover and monitor nuclear...

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