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Voters are dreading a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump next year. Enter Robert Kennedy Jr.

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Good Riddance, Mr. Speaker

By CHRISTOPHER BUSKIRK

For his entire career, Paul Ryan has been the wunderkind who couldn’t deliver.

Lawrence Jackson for The New York Times

• Mark Zuckerberg, in a suit and tie, met an army of cardboard look-alikes in “Fix Facebook” T-shirts when he arrived on Capitol Hill to begin testifying before lawmakers.

People lined up to try to get into the congressional hearing room to witness him being grilled by more than 40 senators on how the company failed to protect the data of millions of users, its vulnerability to fake and malicious stories and other issues. (Our tech columnist narrates this video about just how much Facebook knows about us.)

We’re following the events here. Expect theatrics more than revelations — or, as a former privacy adviser to the Senate put it, “The script is mostly known; the question is how it’s said.”

Pro Cheerleaders Say Groping and Sexual Harassment Are Part of the Job

By JULIET MACUR and JOHN BRANCH

Many women who work for professional sports teams dread being sent to interact with fans at games and promotional events: “It’s literally like you’re calling for an escort.”

 wunderkind

wunderkind

NOUNplural wunderkinds, plural wunderkinder

• A person who achieves great success when relatively young.

  ‘the economics wunderkind who was a tenured professor at 29’

Origin

Late 19th century: from German, from Wunder ‘wonder’ + Kind ‘child’.

dread

drɛd/

verb

1. 1.

   anticipate with great apprehension or fear.

   
   

   "Jane was dreading the party"

   
   

   synonyms:

   fear, be afraid of, worry about, be anxious about, have forebodings about, feel apprehensive about; More
2. 2.

   archaic

   regard with great awe or reverence.

   
   

   "the man whom Henry dreaded as the future champion of English freedom"

noun

1. 1.

   great fear or apprehension.

   
   

   "the thought of returning to London filled her with dread"

   
   

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2. 2.

   a sudden take-off and flight of a flock of gulls or other birds.

   
   

   "flocks of wood sandpiper, often excitable, noisy, and given to dreads"
3. 
   

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adjective

1. 1.

   greatly feared; dreadful.

   
   

   "he was stricken with the dread disease and died"
2. 2.

   archaic

   regarded with awe; greatly revered.

theatrics
noun
dramatic performances.
excessively emotional and dramatic behavior.
noun: theatric
"stop your theatrics"