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Big boards to mock drafts: Your 2025 NFL Draft online resource guide

The first round of the 2025 NFL Draft kicks off Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as teams look to land their next big star from a deep pool of collegiate talent.

If the draft feels overwhelming, you're not alone. With hundreds of college prospects, complex draft mechanics, and constant speculation about which teams are eyeing whom, it can be a lot to take in. Thankfully, draft coverage is practically its own industry. The NFL reigns supreme in American sports, and that means there’s no...

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David Fucillo

How much money do first round picks in the 2025 NFL Draft make?

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We don’t know who will go where for most of the 2025 NFL Draft, but we do know roughly what kind of contracts the players will sign. We break down the likely rookie deals for first-round picks.

The 2025 NFL Draft gets underway on Thursday, April 24, with the Tennessee Titans going on the clock shortly after 8 p.m. ET. They clinched the No. 1 pick and are expected to select Cam Ward to open the draft. From there we’ll be off...

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Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Katie Drummond

Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts explain how to prepare for travel to and from the United States—and how to stay safe.

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Pavithra Mohan

Microsoft is allegedly paying low performers to quit

Microsoft is giving low performers the option to voluntarily quit with 16 weeks of pay—rather than risk being put on a performance improvement plan, according to Business Insider.

The tech industry is often cautious about tying layoffs to performance, even if it might play a role in who gets dismissed during widespread job cuts. But this year has signaled a noticeable shift in how some of the biggest players in tech approach layoffs: Earlier this year, Meta cut more than 3,000 employees...

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Havoc review: Can Netflixs Tom Hardy vehicle sustain its visual chaos?

A generic cops-and-drug-dealers saga infused with occasional chaos, Gareth Evans' Havoc is a decent time, despite its plateauing excess. The long-delayed Tom Hardy vehicle — it completed production in 2021 — has just enough by way of visual panache to set it apart from the usual crop of forgettable, straight-to-streaming action.

With a story that's nothing to write home about, Evans relies on the action chops he brought to modern Indonesian martial arts classics The Raid and its sequel,...

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AI was used to write the California bar exam. The law community is outraged.

You've heard of AI models taking the bar exam, but this time, AI also helped write the questions.

The State Bar of California revealed on Monday that it used AI to develop a portion of its exam questions, according to the LA Times. The AI-generated exam questions were created by an independent psychometrician called ACS Ventures hired by the State Bar. The questions were "developed with the assistance of AI and subsequently reviewed by content validation panels and a subject matter expert in...

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Google Chrome wont phase out third-party cookies after all

Google is currently in the midst of a major antitrust trial (make that two antitrust trials, actually), which may result in the company being forced to sell off its popular web browser, Google Chrome. However, the search giant made a major, unrelated Chrome announcement earlier this week:

Google is abandoning its plans to drop third-party cookies from Chrome.

Back in January 2020, Google made a big announcement that was welcomed by privacy advocates. The company said it planned to completely...

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Julie Creswell and Danielle Kaye

Pepsico Cuts Growth Forecast Amid Tariffs and Slowed Consumer Spending

PepsiCo’s earnings call pointed to anxious consumers as to why sales had slowed, echoing comments by Chipotle and Procter & Gamble.

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Mitch Moxley

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist

How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.

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Rachel Sherman and Mohamed Sadek

Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio

Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.

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Roni Caryn Rabin

U.S. Officials to Cut Funding for Landmark Study of Women’s Health

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced thousands of research papers, altering medical care for patients around the world.

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Allan Sloan

The Dow Jones Industrial Average set a startling record that shows just how flawed it truly is

UnitedHealth Group’s recent stock plunge makes it clearer than ever why we should stop paying so much attention to the DJIA.

The past few days in the stock market have been so wild—a plunge on Monday, a sharp pivot upward on Tuesday, a rise with lots of oscillations on Wednesday—that a record set by the Dow Jones Industrial Average on last week’s final day of trading has been largely overlooked. That’s unfortunate, because there’s a lot to be learned from that record about how...

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Lisa Friedman

Child Health Experts With Diversity Roles Will Be Fired or Reassigned

The moves are aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and environmental justice programs at the E.P.A., Trump administration officials say.

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Reed Abelson

Trump Cuts Threaten Agency Running Meals on Wheels

A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of an overhaul by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.

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Maggie Haberman, Reid J. Epstein and Kenneth P. Vogel

Trump Plans to Target ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine

The president plans to direct the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents.

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Adam Liptak

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Revive Transgender Military Ban

Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.

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Jonah E. Bromwich

Lawyer for New York Attorney General Blasts Trump for ‘Retribution’

The lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told the Justice Department that allegations against Attorney General Letitia James related to property she owns lacked “any credible foundation.”

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Dana Goldstein

Judge Limits Trump’s Ability to Withhold School Funds Over D.E.I.

The administration was seeking to cut off money from public schools that allowed certain diversity and equity programs.

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