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Byline: Michael H. Keller and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired [...]

Anunciantes de mercancías para niñas pequeñas notaron que hombres adultos pueden volverse una audiencia no solicitada. En un anuncio de prueba, abusadores sentenciados preguntaron por una niña modelo. Cuando una [...]

Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model. When a children's [...]

Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric. The Republican speaker of the [...]

Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric. The Republican speaker of the [...]

New Mexico's attorney general has accused Meta of not protecting children from sexual predators on its platforms. He now wants to know how it polices subscribers to accounts featuring children. [...]

Byline: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, [...]

‌The first comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the Covid era sheds new light on where and why prisoners were especially vulnerable. Deaths in state and federal prisons across America [...]

In vilifying tweets and speeches, G.O.P. lawmakers who contested the election have far outpaced other Republicans and Democrats in fueling polarization. As Representative Mary Miller embarked on her first congressional [...]

Byline: Chris Hamby, Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Jeff Smith, a partner with the influential consulting firm McKinsey & Company, accepted a highly sensitive assignment in December 2017. [...]

Jeff Smith, a partner with the influential consulting firm McKinsey & Company, accepted a highly sensitive assignment in December 2017. The opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, beleaguered and in financial trouble, [...]

Inside the self-reinforcing ecosystem of people who advise, train and defend officers. Many accuse them of slanting science and perpetuating aggressive tactics. When lawyers were preparing to defend against a [...]

Byline: Michael LaForgia and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries When the Texas Rangers learned that a woman had died in a jail south of Dallas, they put Adam Russell on the case. He [...]

When the Texas Rangers learned that a woman had died in a jail south of Dallas, they put Adam Russell on the case. He found that there had been a [...]

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found. When [...]

The article reports on how some children are being exposed to sexual predators by their parents' posting of their photos on social media. Topics discussed include some parents' use of social media sites such as Instagram to jump-start their children's modeling career, parents' sale of the photos of their teenage girls to unknown followers, and the impact of social media on girls including driving negative self-worth feelings and promoting objectification of their bodies.

As federal prosecutors unveil charges in the assault on the Capitol last month, they have repeatedly highlighted two militant groups -- the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers -- as [...]

In the weeks since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors have announced criminal charges against more than 175 people -- less than a quarter of those involved [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- More than three weeks after Thanksgiving, epidemiologists and local health officials across the country are picking apart the holiday, seeking signs of the pandemic's latest riddle: [...]

Byline: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Technology to alert people exposed to the virus could slow transmission, pilot studies show, but only if people and states sign up. So far, most haven't. Last [...]

Technology to alert people exposed to the virus could slow transmission, pilot studies show, but only if people and states sign up. So far, most haven't. Last spring, Apple and [...]

Despite eased restrictions, people are still avoiding malls, restaurants and other businesses, raising questions about the strength and speed of the recovery. Strict lockdowns ended weeks ago, but many people [...]

Byline: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Ella Koeze and Sapna [...]

Smartphone location data, often used by marketers, has been useful for studying the spread of the coronavirus. But the information raises troubling privacy questions. As researchers and journalists try to [...]

The deaths of Eric Garner in New York and George Floyd in Minnesota created national outrage over the use of deadly police restraints. There were many others you didn't hear [...]

Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the coronavirus pandemic. But there are worries about privacy and hastily written software. Faced with a [...]

It has been about two weeks since the Illinois governor ordered residents to stay at home, but nothing has changed about Adarra Benjamin's responsibilities. She gets on a bus nearly [...]

Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and other places that waited to enact such orders have continued to travel widely, potentially [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has approved a proposal to fine T-Mobile, AT&T and two other cellphone carriers more than $200 million for selling customers' location data to companies that allowed [...]

The Federal Communications Commission is set to propose about $200 million in fines against four major cellphone carriers for selling customers' real-time location data, according to three people briefed on [...]

The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas. Facing an increasing number of requests for its users' information, Google began charging law [...]

After a high-speed chase north of Orlando, Fla., sheriff's deputies punctured the tires of a stolen Dodge Magnum and brought it to a stop. They arrested the driver, but couldn't [...]

An explosion in reports of child sexual abuse imagery on the internet is prompting the authorities to step up pressure on technology companies over their use of encryption -- and [...]

The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show. The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to [...]

Byline: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries When potential customers visit the online resale store ThredUp, messages on the screen regularly tell them just how much other users of the site are saving. 'Alexandra [...]

When potential customers visit the online resale store ThredUp, messages on the screen regularly tell them just how much other users of the site are saving. ''Alexandra from Anaheim just [...]

Byline: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, an investigative reporter, discussed the tech she's using. What [...]

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, an investigative reporter, discussed the tech she's using. What are your most [...]

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When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went [...]

The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers, the city attorney of Los Angeles said in a lawsuit filed on [...]

A group of 22 children's and consumer organizations is calling for a federal investigation into Google's marketing of children's apps in its Google Play store, just the latest in a [...]

''This is the tip of the iceberg,'' one person told me. ''The public has zero idea,'' wrote another.I wrote an article in May about a company that bought access to [...]