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May 2020

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May 31st
- A big bill after mortgage aid
- 6 book recommendations from Pico Iyer
- The truth about masks
May 30th
- When do furloughs turn into layoffs?
- 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's Twitter fact check
- 6 fun homes kids will love
May 29th
- The daily gossip: May 29, 2020
- The Week contest: Inflatable eats
- A premature argument against postponing the Oscars
May 28th
- The daily gossip: May 28, 2020
- The week's good news: May 28, 2020
- 5 cartoons about Trump ignoring 100,000 coronavirus deaths
- The danger of 'it's probably fine'
- Trump stumbles toward a big blunder in Afghanistan
- New audio reveals what the mysterious narwhal sounds like: a chainsaw
May 27th
- The daily gossip: May 27, 2020
- Why timing the market is a risky investment strategy
- Solving COVID: May 27, 2020
- The Not Too Late Show with Elmo is pure Sesame Street gold
- Why Biden benefits by disappearing
- Ohio 15-year-old receives high school diploma and college degree in the same week
May 26th
- The daily gossip: May 26, 2020
- The week's best parenting advice: May 26, 2020
- University of Oklahoma graduates receive a tribute in chalk from faculty
- Army sergeant has sweet reunion with his military dog after 2 years apart
May 25th
- The best garden and lawn problem solvers
- Sony unveils image sensor with integrated AI
- 6 peaceful homes on Maine's islands
- Lydia Millet's 6 favorite books about appreciating living creatures
- Why is my kid such a liar?
May 24th
- How pandemics change society
May 23rd
- The 'great uncoupling' of the U.S. and China?
- 5 cartoons about 2020 graduates' grim prospects
- A national paycheck guarantee?
May 22nd
- The daily gossip: May 22, 2020
- The Week contest: Yard work
- 7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's hydroxychloroquine regimen
- Connecticut girl sends more than 1,500 art kits to kids in shelters and foster care
May 21st
- The daily gossip: May 21, 2020
- The week's good news: May 21, 2020
- The best of instant pet entertainment
- Why kids have a favorite parent
- Meme therapy
- Virginia Tech therapy dog beloved by students receives honorary doctorate
- Canadian company aims to have its drones plant 1 billion trees by 2028
May 20th
- The daily gossip: May 20, 2020
- Solving COVID: May 20, 2020
- GOP operatives seek to get 'extremely pro-Trump' doctors on TV to push immediate economic reopening
- Streaming services have rediscovered the value of the back catalog
- All-girls robotics team in Afghanistan hopes its ventilator prototype will save lives
May 19th
- The daily gossip: May 19, 2020
- Why a formulaic action flick became Netflix's biggest movie ever
- The week's best parenting advice: May 19, 2020
- Every commercial is a Super Bowl commercial now
- With the only store in town, Alaskan grocer goes above and beyond to keep shelves stocked
- Senior citizens become DJs for new online radio hour
May 18th
- The daily gossip: May 18, 2020
- 6 book recommendations from Wally Lamb
- Everything you need for backyard bird-watching
- This robotic 'dog' enforces social distancing
- Trump calls in to NBC golf event, pines for large crowds and no masks
May 17th
- 6 homes perfect for growing your own food
May 16th
- Elon Musk vs. California
- 5 scathingly funny cartoons about America's risky reopening
- Why finance apps are having a moment
May 15th
- The daily gossip: May 15, 2020
- The Week contest: Name X
- Why does my kid have to win all the time?
- Our sexist fascination with Catherine the Great
May 14th
- The daily gossip: May 14, 2020
- The week's good news: May 14, 2020
- 5 hilarious cartoons about Trump's vague 'Obamagate' allegations
- The strange conflation of masks and masculinity
- Has America already reached its limit on celebrating essential workers?
- Sportswriter raises $57,000 for charity by auctioning off his signed baseball cards
May 13th
- The daily gossip: May 13, 2020
- Solving COVID: May 13, 2020
- Minneapolis teacher invites former student without stable housing to quarantine with her
May 12th
- The daily gossip: May 12, 2020
- The week's best parenting advice: May 12, 2020
- Rare blue bee scientists thought may have become extinct rediscovered in Florida
May 11th
- The daily gossip: May 11, 2020
- My tween, the big baby
- John Krasinski officiates a quarantine wedding, reunites The Office cast to celebrate
- Looking to lift spirits, teen volunteer is delivering goodie bags to nursing home residents
May 10th
- 5 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's coronavirus strategy
- 6 books recommended by Jenny Zhang
- Refinancing during an epidemic
- 6 charming homes on rivers
May 9th
- 7 scathing cartoons about America's rush to reopen
- How Europe is bailing out its workers
- Liability: Who bears the risks of reopening?
May 8th
- The daily gossip: May 8, 2020
- The Week contest: Battle of the bands
- Your free workouts have a cost
- Mixed feelings about my first Mother's Day
- Watch Trump's new press secretary thrash him on Fox and CNN in 2015
- Card originally sent 33 years ago finally arrives, thanks to a post office's deep cleaning
May 7th
- The daily gossip: May 7, 2020
- The week's good news: May 7, 2020
- 9 books to read this summer
- The primal comfort of domestic arts
- Couple spends what would have been their wedding day gathering donations for food bank
May 6th
- The daily gossip: May 6, 2020
- Solving COVID: May 6, 2020
- Irish donors return an old favor to Native American tribes hit hard by coronavirus
- An act of kindness leads to farmer receiving his college degree after 50 years
May 5th
- The daily gossip: May 5, 2020
- The week's best parenting advice: May 5, 2020
May 4th
- The daily gossip: May 4, 2020
- Bring back the laugh track
- The Clone Wars' greatest success was making the Star Wars prequel movies more watchable
- Siblings fighting more during lockdown? Here's what parents can do.
- John Krasinski graduates the Class of 2020 with personalized iconic commencement coaches
- 5 next-level jigsaw puzzles
- Australian eco-tourism company stays busy planting coral along the Great Barrier Reef
May 3rd
- 6 homes for those who love sports
- The post-virus economy
- 5 scathing cartoons about Democrats' #MeToo hypocrisy
- Sarah Urist Green recommends 6 books that influenced her life
- When will sports come back?
May 2nd
- Apple is experimenting with its own custom processor
- The shortest bear market ever?
May 1st
- The daily gossip: May 1, 2020
- The Week contest: Legal lockdown
- 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Mike Pence's unmasked hospital visit
- 72-year-old British man becomes oldest person to row solo across the Atlantic

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