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Today’s high tales

Former President Donald Trump handily won the New Hampshire primary, bringing him one step nearer to securing the Republican nomination. While New Hampshire was seen as Nikki Haley’s finest probability to disrupt his momentum, the previous U.N. ambassador advised supporters final night time that “this race is far from over.” Read more takeaways here.

• NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First from New Hampshire — which Trump received regardless of its massive share of independents — that Haley wants “a dramatic shift in Republican voting behavior” to knock him down. 
• Nevada is the following state to vote, however Haley is already centered on her residence state of South Carolina, the place she lags within the polls. NPR’s Ashley Lopez says the state has “a very different brand of Republican,” including that GOP voters there aren’t on the lookout for a Trump different.
• NPR crunched the numbers and located that the earliest a presidential candidate has locked up the nomination was John Kerry in February 2004. Check out this timeline for particulars.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a main election night time get together in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday as Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Eric Trump watch.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a main election night time get together in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday as Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Eric Trump watch.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

President Joe Biden won the Democratic primary as a write-in candidate. His title wasn’t on the printed poll due to a dispute between the state and nationwide get together over the first calendar. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., seized the opening to launch a long-shot problem, which prompted the state grassroots marketing campaign to put in writing in Biden’s title. Phillips positioned second.

The U.S. Education Department tells NPR it is going to repair a math mistake with its Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that might have price college students $1.8 billion in federal assist. The drawback is the results of a congressionally-mandated overhaul of the shape that didn’t adjust for inflation.

• The division says it is going to repair it in time for the 2024-2025 college 12 months, however hasn’t specified how. Financial assist consultants and school directors say it may both attempt to fix it before sending student FAFSA data to high schools, or ship the unsuitable information for now and promise to replace it later.

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From our hosts

Crystal Hefner’s memoir “Only Say Good Things” describes her years on the Playboy Mansion.

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Crystal Hefner’s memoir “Only Say Good Things” describes her years on the Playboy Mansion.

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This essay was written by Michel Martin. She hosts Morning Edition and Up First. She’s beforehand hosted Weekend All Things Considered, the Consider This Saturday podcast and Tell Me More.

I requested my in-house younger grownup focus group if that they had ever heard of Playboy; that is the Gen Z take as advised to me:

The Girl: Pictures of ladies, not porn however provocative pics. Like a joke. People are like Playboy bunnies for Halloween.

The Boy: Hot ladies being advised by males what to do. Lingerie. Mainly sizzling ladies. An enormous deal again within the day.

An enormous deal again within the day is correct. The males’s magazine based by Hugh Hefner was a VERY massive deal within the ’60s and ’70s for the shiny nude centerfolds but in addition, sure, for the long-form reporting, top-notch fiction, vocal help for liberal causes like LGBTQ+ rights and marijuana legalization. Hefner’s LA residence, the Playboy Mansion, was a star hotspot. Of course, many individuals noticed the entire scene as sexist and degrading… as a result of, duh.

On certainly one of my first journeys as a reporter, I occurred to be staying close to the flagship Playboy in Chicago, and even now, I keep in mind the modern façade. It’s not my factor, however I may see why it was some individuals’s factor.

But that is one motive I used to be inquisitive about studying the new memoir by Crystal Harris Hefner, Hefner’s third spouse and now widow. What WAS behind that façade?

Maybe it will not shock you to know that there actually was ugliness behind that shiny picture, however what fascinated me was why, as late as 2008—a 12 months when ladies have been operating for President, operating companies, had gone to the moon, had set Olympic data—was a younger, college-educated girl like Crystal keen to decorate up as an attractive maid to get together on the mansion, get picked out of the group by Hef’s safety guards, starve herself, surgically alter herself, all that… simply to be a part of that crowd?

Interested? Me too.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the titular characters in two of the 12 months’s most talked-about motion pictures.

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Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the titular characters in two of the 12 months’s most talked-about motion pictures.

Jaap Buitendijk, Warner Bros. / Melinda Sue Gordon, Universal Pictures

1. Oppenheimer dominated the Oscar nominations as anticipated, although there have been additionally plenty of snubs and surprises. 
2. The Los Angeles Times laid off practically 1 / 4 of its newsroom, simply the most recent in a wave of major media layoffs. 
3. Billy Joel says he’ll launch his first new track in practically 20 years — known as “Turn the Lights Back On” — in February. 

This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Suzanne Nuyen contributed.