The Thursday, September 24, 2026 Edition
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Roughly a quarter of Cuba's population has left the island since 2020 in an ongoing mass exodus, according to a new Council on Foreign Relations analysis. The departures have transformed daily life across the island — the full story is in today's In-Depth reads.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Today: F. Scott Fitzgerald's 130th birthday — the 'Great Gatsby' author was born Sept. 24, 1896, and literary retrospectives are marking the date.
Today: New Yorkers can submit name suggestions for the otter spotted in the Bronx River — the first there in a century.
- 1789President George Washington signs the Judiciary Act, establishing the US Supreme Court
- 1869The 'Black Friday' gold panic sends Wall Street into chaos
- 1948Soichiro Honda founds the Honda Motor Company in Japan
- 1957President Eisenhower orders federal troops to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation
Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
Why the much-hyped lab-grown-meat revolution never arrived, and what happened to the industry that promised it.
Harper's · Erin Somers
This Social Worker Was Supposed to Help Orphans Find Homes. Instead, She Abducted Children Who Already Had Families and Sold Them for Profit
How a social worker entrusted with finding homes for orphans instead abducted children from their families and sold them for profit.
Smithsonian
Inside Cuba's Mass Exodus: How Losing a Quarter of the Population Has Changed the Island
How losing a quarter of its population to mass emigration has changed Cuba.
CFR
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