Nicole Stock

Nicole Stock is an Audience Editor at The New York Times, focused on health and wellness. She previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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Decades Later, the Menendez Crime Scene Still Draws a Crowd

On a bright, sunny Friday the 13th in June, a 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham limousine pulled up in front of a Beverly Hills mansion that was obscured by a chain-link fence. Across the street, an open-top tour bus drove by, with its passengers craning their heads in the direction of the funeral limo.The landmark the vehicles were visiting? The home where Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents more than three decades ago.The limo stopped at the mansion as part of the Westside Gory tour, a...
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How Far Will People Go to Get Into the Magic Castle? Ask These Blood Donors.

There are a few established ways to gain admission to the Magic Castle, a clubhouse and restaurant in Los Angeles: being a magician member, knowing one or staying at the neighboring hotel. But those eager to see what lies inside have found another way in the door: donating blood.Such was the path for Justice Buckly, a 22-year-old student from Santa Clarita, Calif., who wanted to secure a reservation for a surprise dinner for his friends, and stumbled upon the tip on Reddit. “I would not have bee...
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Yes, Gen Z Is Staring at You. The Question Is Why.

When Valerie Jefferson, 23, posted a video about the “Gen Z stare” on TikTok, she did not expect it to start a fight. Her video, which documented one interpretation of the meaning of the stare — the blank look of someone in a service job who is handling frustrating requests from a customer — unleashed a torrent of intergenerational debates.“Millennials finally got something to say about Gen Z and I think they ran with it and Gen Z was not happy,” Ms. Jefferson said of the two generations duking...
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Can the ‘Princess Treatment’ Go Too Far?

Store and/or access information on a deviceOffIAB TCFCookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.Most purposes explained in this notice r...
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Courageous or Self-Righteous? Californians Evaluate Newsom’s Speech.

For months, Californians weren’t sure what to make of Gov. Gavin Newsom.There was the new podcast on which he interviewed right-wing influencers and said he felt trans athletes shouldn’t participate in women’s sports. There was the meeting in February with President Trump in the White House. And there were occasional snipes at Republicans, but nothing like those Mr. Newsom had dished out in years past.Then came a blistering nine-minute speech on Tuesday in which Mr. Newsom warned Americans that...
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