US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it's likely just a return to more typical levels

US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it's likely just a return to more typical levels

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Experts warn that the drop doesn’t necessarily mean safer…

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How Simões de Assis Built a Global Platform for Brazilian Art

How Simões de Assis Built a Global Platform for Brazilian Art

Simões de Assis in São Paulo. Courtesy Simões de Assis In the past few years, Brazil has been in the spotlight of the international art world, beginning with Adriano Pedrosa’s Biennial and continuing with the Royal Academy in London hosting the decades-spanning survey “Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism” (January-April 2025), as well as the…

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