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N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. But Monday’s mass shooting showed their limits, security experts said.

© Dakota Santiago for The New York Times

A police investigator examined the car left behind by the gunman, who drove across the country before he entered a Manhattan office building on Monday and began shooting.
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University of California Settles With Jewish Students Over U.C.L.A. Protests

Jewish students and a professor said the university had allowed a hostile protest. After the settlement was announced, the Department of Justice separately said it had found the university violated civil rights laws.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Pro-Palestinian students at U.C.L.A. also sued the university after a violent encounter at the protest encampment.
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1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story review – the troubling tale of sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours

This documentary about a porn star who has made millions from ‘barely legal’ videos fails to really take her to task. Its maker is no match for the steel of the interviewee

For those of you pure of heart and internet search history, Bonnie Blue (real name: Tia Billinger) is famous for being one of the most popular and highest-earning content creators to have appeared on more-or-less porn site OnlyFans. To fulfil her ambition of earning £5m a month from subscribers she needed a USP. She found it in pursuing “barely legal” sex – traditionally one of the most searched-for terms in porn – with the twist that instead of men searching for videos of other men having sex with teenage (or teenage-looking, depending on how many internet layers you’re prepared to sift through for your purposes) girls, Billinger offered herself to young men.

She had sex with them for free on condition that they gave permission for her to upload the footage to her OnlyFans account, where her subscribers pay to access her content. “She is a marketing genius,” says one of the team she has gathered round her to help administrate her growing empire. She has, in essence, introduced an entirely new way of doing porn-business. If she were working in any other field – if she had stayed in her previous job as a finance recruiter for the NHS, perhaps – and innovated to the same extent, she would probably be hailed as an extraordinary entrepreneur.

1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story is available on Channel 4.

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© Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

© Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

© Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

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