Male baboons live longer if they have more female friends. Research has shown that those platonic relationships might be just as important as the relationships that make more baby monkeys. https://t.co/qn2m0zgb5b

Read more about the effects of the disproportionate discipline of Black girls in school compared with their white peers in our investigation by @EricaLG, @bymarkwalker and @elizashapiro. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB

The long-term trauma for Black girls from disproportionate school discipline is little understood, experts say. Some girls said they still struggled to make sense of their treatment, and their mothers have run out of ways to reassure them. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/B2xy9DPmvJ

A school police officer in Baltimore has found new ways to engage girls who might otherwise be disciplined more for who they are than what they do. “She pays attention to us for the positive stuff,” said an eighth grader in her youth program. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/cIJWkPPJt6

Black girls in elementary and middle school in New York City were about 11 times more likely to be suspended than their white peers in 2017. In Iowa, Black girls were nine times more likely to be arrested at school than white girls. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/Ahv2lUNOpn

Black girls as young as five are viewed by adults as more mature and less innocent than their white peers, according to a Georgetown University study. An NAACP lawyer likened the effects to “the criminalization of Black childhood.” https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/cR6j39LjO9

In a case that is the subject of what might be a groundbreaking federal lawsuit, Zulayka McKinstry’s daughter said she was strip-searched at school because the principal decided that “hyper and giddy” were suspicious behaviors, even in a 12-year-old girl. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/qyAanY2Fhc

The disproportionate discipline rates among girls indicate what researchers have long said about all Black children: It is not that they misbehave more than their peers, but their behaviors may be judged more harshly. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB https://t.co/dWqfFzpNo0

Black girls may be the most at-risk students in America, disciplined more frequently and more harshly than their white peers. While reforms tend to focus on helping Black boys, recent cases have begun to reframe the debate around the plight of Black girls. https://t.co/VlOLjMEfJB

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, signed a newspaper ad in 2006 that supported overturning Roe v. Wade. Her opposition to Roe is in line with Trump’s pledge to appoint justices who would overturn the ruling. 
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Multiple USB memory sticks and a laptop used to program voting machines in Philadelphia were stolen from a warehouse, city officials confirmed on Thursday. https://t.co/dIsDvmnsYz

Pope Francis declined to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is demanding a harder Vatican line on China. The Holy See said meeting just before a U.S. election would be inappropriate. https://t.co/D9t3X2KWQc

Bertha Arriaga heard a noise and went to the window. A stray bullet hit her, making her the 343rd person murdered in New York this year. https://t.co/EPUlI76K6s

President Trump unleashed a xenophobic attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar at a rally in Minnesota Wednesday night, accusing her of telling “us” — meaning his overwhelmingly white audience — “how to run our country.” https://t.co/6K6iPvqCaG

Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, will seek to extend a state of emergency the country has been working under until at least the end of January. https://t.co/H5Nz5uen12

RT @Carlos_Film: Absolutely thrilled. This piece I created for @nytimes is finally out. It’s a list of 20 essential films since 2000 centered on U.S. Latino characters. It features the voices of filmmakers & actors sharing about their works & their American experiences. https://t.co/K4vyi15Z3y

London’s mayor said the city's transport system will need another 5.7 billion pounds, or $7.3 billion, to get through the next 18 months, in a sign of how decimated the system has been by the pandemic. https://t.co/3fjdwxbOPE

There are a few ways the label ‘biodegradable’ may cause more problems than it solves. https://t.co/dgooubLy0e

After two years without a formal government, a fragile coalition government took power in Belgium on Thursday. The partnership between seven political parties ends one of the longest political stalemates in the Western world.
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Russians were urged to return to normal life. But President Vladimir Putin inhabits a virus-free bubble, rarely leaving home. The few people he meets must quarantine first. https://t.co/mYK33hhJux