Sean Plambeck
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How do you design a good flag? Why is redesigning flags sometimes controversial? We answer these questions and more! https://t.co/yKxVoprgtU So proud of this piece, done with the best team @MitchKSmith @graybeltran @SeanPlambeck @JenMosbrucker and Meghan Louttit
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Utah had a state flag that didn't stand out from the crowd. The state embarked on a redesign, and found the process was far from simple.
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I wrote about Pride in Franklin, Tennessee, the unexpected backlash against its celebration and what it meant when the festival finally happened in a public park. https://t.co/rY2Efkr1Pt
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After right-wing activists portrayed a Pride event in Franklin, Tenn., as a threat to children, the small city unexpectedly found itself at the center of a backlash.
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Parents from about 100 families, the Covenant School and the church will be allowed to formally argue in an ongoing legal fight over whether writings left behind by the shooter can be released, a judge said tonight. https://t.co/qbUq88iz42
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A group of about 100 families will now have the chance to argue in court against releasing the writings of the assailant who killed six people at a Christian school.
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I spent a big chuck of Feb & March charting the trauma & healing of two of the brave survivors of the #Uvalde shooting. The story is out today. I can’t thank enough the families of Noah & Mayah. Please take a moment to read about their journey @nytimes 📰 https://t.co/cqCxfMbiJ7
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When a gunman opened fire in two classrooms in Uvalde, Texas, 19 children died. Two fourth graders wounded in the massacre are still trying to recover.
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Lawyers say Alex Murdaugh taking the witness stand is a risky but calculated move, @jesus_jimz reports.
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New in Moscow, Idaho, murder case: • Suspect will be extradited from PA to Idaho to face 4 murder counts • Cops have executed warrant for his DNA • Indiana cops pulled him & his dad over on Dec. 15 for a traffic violation as they drove from Wash to PA https://t.co/xJBsElDfH0
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The 28-year-old Ph.D. student accused in the killings of four University of Idaho students will face four counts of murder.
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NEW: The U.S. and many state constitutions still allow slavery as punishment for people who have been convicted of a crime. Voters in five states — Ala., La., Ore., Tenn., Vt. — will decide next month whether to remove that exception and ban it outright.
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The states are asking voters whether to amend constitutions that have exceptions to slavery bans. Some hope that the changes could allow prisoners to challenge the practice of being forced into labor...
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Stockton, Calif., has spent decades enduring some of the state’s hardest knocks, from municipal bankruptcy to crippling crime waves. Then, a serial killer began stalking the city's streets. w/@ShawnHubler @hollysecon
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A suspect was charged Tuesday in a series of murders in the California city, which has faced municipal bankruptcy, crippling crime waves and decades of setbacks.
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Last month, I spent a few extremely early mornings in Katy, Texas, with the guys of F3 — that's fitness, fellowship and faith. This is a story about masculinity, loneliness, and what it means to lift cinderblocks together in the "gloom."
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In Katy, outside Houston, many men have taken up F3, a no-frills fitness group where members push themselves physically but also bond emotionally.
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The relatives and friends of the 17 people killed in Parkland divulged the depths of their despair since losing loved ones to gunfire four years ago. They shared details that laid bare how massacres leave families with years of unresolved sorrow. https://t.co/JREkF1hKxW
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The rare trial of a gunman in a mass shooting has underscored how massacres shatter families and communities over time.
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A 26 year old on dialysis. A 17 year old with kidney cancer. A 6 year old with a red bumps. This story on “Oasis,” a mobile home park with arsenic in its water, is so troubling https://t.co/p3oyaNraEh by Ana Facio-Krajcer & @JillCowan
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The Environmental Protection Agency found that water at a mobile home park that mostly serves agricultural workers contained almost 10 times the allowable limit of arsenic. But housing alternatives...
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“People are going to ask why we’re taking so long" New details from inside the Robb Elementary School, where officers learned of injured in the classrooms, but waited to confront the gunman https://t.co/qc6IBpJtOg
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More than a dozen students remained alive for over an hour before officers entered their classrooms. The commander feared a risk to officers’ lives, new documents show.
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Jose Flores and Andrea Herrera, inseparable siblings both in the fourth grade, rode the bus together to Robb Elementary School last Tuesday as they did most mornings. He headed into Room 111, she into Room 104. @nytimes #uvalde #uvaldetx 💔
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In Uvalde, Texas, where many children were killed, one family grieves the death of a small boy and holds his sister close.
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Last year, I saw a perplexing news item: A Maine man had pleaded to two low-level domestic violence charges --the result of an FBI sting and state & federal prosecutions over five years. Why, I wondered, was this case so important to the government? 1/6 https://t.co/rqFJYHFLLS
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25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was running near his home. Three armed white men are accused of chasing and killing him in a South Georgia neighborhood and now face murder charges. Follow our live updates: https://t.co/heIa3UOWOD
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While the defense portrayed the fatal shooting as ‘self-defense,’ the prosecution took the contrary position that it was the victim, Ahmaud Arbery, who had been under attack. Our reporters are...
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UPDATED: Everything to know about the "Murdaugh Murders," the endless mysteries roiling South Carolina. Just today, Alex Murdaugh was ordered to be held in jail after he was accused of stealing millions from a settlement meant for his housekeeper's sons.
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Alex Murdaugh, scion of a legal dynasty in South Carolina, was convicted in the murder of his wife and son, and the theft of millions of dollars from clients. He is seeking a new murder trial.
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Budding Journalists: We will soon open applications to the 2022-2023 New York Times Fellowship. The class will include reporting, data, design, visual, photo, audio and opinion positions. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience. Fellows receive salary and benefits.
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“I want you to shoot me in the back of the head.” —On the strange, dangerous & metastasizing saga that has consumed the state of South Carolina. w/ @NickAtNews
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Alex Murdaugh, the powerful lawyer who asked a handyman to kill him, had a spectacular fall from grace. Five people in his family’s orbit have died in recent years, and investigators are looking for...
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More than 70,000 Black girls were reported missing last year. Do you know any of their names?
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The news media was fascinated with the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito. But the families of many women who go missing, especially women of color, struggle for attention.
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