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. Daily Edition • March 17, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Happy St. Patrick’s Day! If you’re celebrating the holiday with a pint or a plate of corned beef and cabbage, you might be doing so at a local Irish pub — cornerstones of community in much of the U.S. That’s especially true in Chicago, where the city’s oldest Irish bar has been operating since 1938. Go inside Shinnick’s Pub, which has been passed down through three generations of the same family. Must Reads Who is Banksy? A Reuters investigation…Read more
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Sunday Edition • March 1, 2026 SUPPORTED BY From science to art to government and beyond, countless women have played a critical yet often undervalued role in shaping our world. Women’s History Month offers an opportunity to celebrate those changemakers — past, present, and future. Running throughout March, the month was established in 1987 and coincides with next Sunday’s International Women’s Day. To get involved, consider donating to a nonprofit that empowers women and girls, and then take...
- Re-creating Black American recipes
Daily Edition • February 28, 2026 SUPPORTED BY What makes you happy? No, really — we want to know. Nice News is compiling answers from readers about the things that bring them joy. It could be as simple as enjoying your favorite treat for dessert, or as deep as spending time with your favorite human. Fill out this form to let us know, and note that your response could appear in a future article! Must Reads Nearly 14 million cosmic objects and events were revealed in the largest-ever radio...
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. Daily Edition • February 27, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Struggling to pick your next book? Consider letting The New York Times help you. And we don’t mean by simply perusing its extensive literary coverage — the newspaper has an interactive tool to help you choose what to read, broken down by genres like romance, sci-fi, and historical fiction. It goes a step further than that, too, tagging recommended books with pithy one-liners meant to help you choose, such as “I’d like an audacious, ambitious...