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Palestinians in Gaza are afraid of attending Ramadan evening prayers for fear of being bombed. / Al Jazeera
The United States removes non-essential staff from its embassy in Haiti. / Le Monde
Haiti's "Barbecue" is now the country's most powerful person. "Either Haiti becomes a paradise or a hell for all of us." / The Guardian, France 24
Related: A profile of Barbecue from last summer by Jon Lee Anderson. / The New Yorker
A study finds women's participation in scientific patents increasing since 2000. / axios
Requests to "round up" your bill are generating millions for charities. / NPR
Some 70% of fans who went to the hospital for frostbite after a cold January Chiefs game are being advised to schedule amputations. / Fox 4 Kansas City
Charles Bukowski supposedly published pro-Nazi letters in the early 1940s—and now they've been unearthed, "all claims in that regard are no longer credible." / 3am Magazine
See also: Law and literature are "historically contiguous and analytically adjacent," but should they intermingle more? / Public Books
Recent street-fashion trends in Paris: dark Demnacore, "broke hats," and neo-workwear. Also, some photographs of teenagers in the 1980s and '90s. / The Trend Report, Flashbak
Oppenheimer has a big night at the Oscars. Then again, so did Japan. / Semafor
A cinematographer finds groundbreaking innovation in his colleagues' recent work. / The Los Angeles Review of Books
Unrelated: Creeps on the far right think Sydney Sweeney killed "wokeness." / Slate
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