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‘Rape culture’ in U.K. schools. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story April 1, 2021 By Natasha Frost Writer, Briefings Good morning. We’re covering accusations of sexual violence in British schools and a third national lockdown in France. Students walked out of Highgate School in London last week to protest sexual violence. John Sibley/Reuters Women call out ‘rape culture’ in U.K. schools After weeks of harrowing anonymous accounts of sexual violence, sexism and misogyny at schools on a platform called Everyone’s Invited , local and national officials in Britain have begun investigations . On Wednesday, the government said an education body would conduct an immediate review of policies safeguarding students at both public and private schools. It comes amid a broader reckoning in Britain after the killing of Sarah Everard , whose abduction from a London street last month set off a national conversation about the violen...

How did we get to a place where major infrastructure improvements are so clearly necessary? View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story March 31, 2021 By Giovanni Russonello Construction workers building the Signature Bridge in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Speaking outside Pittsburgh today, President Biden outlined a $2 trillion plan to invest in the country's infrastructure, creating millions of jobs in the process. "It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down," he declared, calling the plan "a once-in-a-generation investment in America, unlike anything we've seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago." Public investment in infrastructure, as a share of gross domestic product, has been in decline for the past half-century, and it has recently become a topic of growing concern across party lines. President Donald Trump proposed his own $1.5 tr...