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“We heard explosions from every direction,” said Mohammad al-Bahrawi, 65, who had returned with his family to their home in Shajaiye months ago. He said “a flood” of people were sent running.”I couldn’t even believe that so many people were still in Shajaiye,” Mr al-Bahrawi said.The Israeli military said it could not immediately comment on the strikes. Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported that the army was conducting a ground operation to root out Hamas based on information that the armed group had begun to regain control of the neighborhood.The operation, if confirmed, would be part of a wider war plan…
Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday required all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in a remarkable move that blurs the lines between religious instruction and public education.The superintendent, Ryan Walters, who is a Republican, described the Bible as an “indispensable historical and cultural touchstone” and said it should be taught at certain, unspecified grade levels.The move comes a week after Louisiana became the first state to mandate that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a move that was quickly challenged in court.Oklahoma’s directive could also be challenged and is likely to spark another…
The NFL must pay nearly $5 billion in damages for artificially inflating the price of Sunday Ticket, a subscription service offered by DirecTV that showed out-of-market games, a federal jury in Los Angeles ruled Thursday.The verdict, which capped a months-long class-action lawsuit and nearly a decade of legal wrangling, includes about $96 million in damages for bars and restaurants that signed up for the service and more than $4.6 billion for about 2.4 million households subscribers. Damages in cases like this are tripled by law, meaning the league could have to pay more than $14 billion.Jury damages were the bulk…
Uber and Lyft settled a years-long legal battle with the attorney general in Massachusetts on Thursday, agreeing to pay their drivers in the state a minimum rate with some benefits.As part of the settlement, Uber and Lyft will pay $175 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated state labor laws, with most of the money distributed to gig workers, state officials said in a statement. But in a win for trucking companies, drivers will continue to be classified as independent contractors rather than employees.Among the benefits the state won for its workers were a health insurance program for drivers…
All Americans 6 months of age and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.The recommendation comes as the nation faces a summer Covid surge, with the number of infections rising in at least 39 states and territories.Most Americans have developed immunity to the coronavirus from repeated infections or vaccine doses, or both. Vaccines now offer a gradual boost, remaining effective for only a few months as immunity wanes and the virus continues to evolve.But in every age group, the vast majority of Americans…
The back windows of Tourists, a renovated 46-room motor inn that opened in North Adams, Mass., in 2018, overlook 80 acres of woodland in the Berkshires. Now, a footpath runs through these woods, connecting the hotel to two neighboring houses in the city’s historic Blackinton area, a former mill community. Both properties – one sleeps up to 11 people, the other six – were renovated for Tourists Homes, a new offshoot that allows larger groups to book individual homes. “We jokingly call them mullets — business in the front, party in the back — why [we preserved the] 1860s fronts,…
A crater that left a roadside bomb targeting an Israeli military jeep in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.Credit…Mohammad Mansour/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAn Israeli soldier was killed and another seriously wounded overnight during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said on Thursday. It was the latest in a series of violent Israeli raids on the city.The soldier who was killed, a sniper team commander, “fell during operational activity,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a brief statement, which gave few details. Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, reported that one…
As police arrested student protesters at Dartmouth College, a 65-year-old professor ended up on the ground.Two student journalists reporting that night ended up being arrested themselves.And a bystander, visiting his father who lives near Dartmouth College, was found with a fractured shoulder.That was some of the collateral damage after Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock took unusually swift action and authorized police action on May 1 to clear a camp set up by students just two hours earlier on the college green. .Dr. Beilock, a cognitive scientist who studies why people choke under stress, has been facing a campus upheaval…
Boeing faced fresh criticism from a federal regulator on Thursday over revelations about the ongoing investigation into a harrowing January flight in which one of the company’s 737 Max planes lost a panel, exposing passengers to howling winds at about 16,000 feet. .Speaking to reporters at the company’s factory in Renton, Washington, Boeing executive Elizabeth Lund gave new details Tuesday about how the plane involved in the incident left the factory apparently without four critical bolts that secure the panel, known as door plug, in place.Boeing said the information was not for release until Thursday morning, under a mutual agreement…
Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer now living in exile in suburban Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping. China’s response lately has been severe, with crude and ominous personal attacks on the Internet.A covert propaganda network linked to the country’s security services has blocked not only Mr. Deng but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms, according to researchers at both Clemson University and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.The content, posted by users with fake identities, appeared in replies to Mr Deng’s posts on X, the…