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A UN-run school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in May. Most such schools are now used as shelters.Credit…Haitham Imad/EPA, via ShutterstockKarim al-Masri was due to start his final exams on Saturday morning, just weeks before he graduated. Instead, he spent his morning filling bags with water to freeze into ice, which he sold to support his family.”I should have studied and prepared for my final exams,” said Mr al-Masri, 18. condition.”Mr. al-Masri was one of nearly 39,000 students in Gaza who were unable to take their high school final exams scheduled to begin Saturday in the Palestinian territories and Jordan…
The horror inflicted on hundreds of boys at a notorious reform school in Florida’s Panhandle remains harrowing for survivors to recount, all these years later. Forced labor. Brutal whippings. Sexual abuse.For more than 15 years, survivors of Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, now elderly, have traveled to the state Capitol in Tallahassee to share their deeply painful memories and plead with politicians for justice — for them and for the dozens of boys who died at school.In 2017, the survivors, many of them black, received an official apology. On Friday, Florida went one step further: Gov. Ron DeSandis signed…
Deb Schmill has become a fixture on Capitol Hill. Last week alone, she visited the offices of 13 lawmakers, one of more than a dozen trips she’s made from her home near Boston over the past two years.At each meeting, Ms. Schmill talks about her daughter Becca, who died in 2020 at the age of 18. Ms Schmill said Becca died after taking fentanyl drugs she bought on Facebook. Before that, she said, her daughter was raped by a boy she met online and then cyberbullied on Snapchat.”I have to do what I can to help legislate to protect other…
Pets are more popular than ever. About two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56 percent in 1988, according to the American Pet Products Association, and Americans will spend $136.8 billion on their pets in 2022, up from $123.6 billion in 2021. An estimated 91 million households in Europe have at least one pet, an increase of 20 million over the past decade. India’s pet population to reach 31 million in 2021, up from 10 million in 2011.And our pets are getting more and more alike – or at least, that seems to be our goal.…
T’s monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you may already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month and to receive our weekly T List newsletter. I have a question; You can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com.A 15-mile-long sandy spit that juts into Arcachon Bay like a protective arm, Lège-Cap Ferret, on France’s west coast, is that country’s answer to New York’s Montauk, though it’s called a decade or two earlier. Cap Ferret — not to be confused with Cap Ferrat, the…
After months of escalating violence along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, the head of the United Nations warned on Friday that “the risk of widening the conflict in the Middle East is real and must be avoided.”Speaking to reporters in New York, the leader, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said “a hasty move” by Israel or Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group targeting Israel in allegiance to Hamas militants in Gaza, it could cause a “catastrophe to go”. far beyond borders and, frankly, beyond imagination.”World leaders have been trying for months to defuse tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, trying to avert an all-out…
From the beginning, the three conservative Temecula Valley Unified School District board members made their position clear. On the same night in December 2022 that they were sworn in as a majority, they passed a resolution banning critical race theory from classrooms in their Southern California district.Months later, they abruptly fired the superintendent, saying they believed the district needed someone with new ideas. After that, they passed a rule requiring parents to be notified whenever a student asks to identify as a different gender at school.The moves were applauded by conservatives, many of them Christian churchgoers who had helped install…
A Southwest Airlines plane descended prematurely Wednesday over Oklahoma City, startling residents miles from the airport, before regaining altitude and then landing safely.After beginning a descent from 39,000 feet, the Boeing 737-800, Flight No. 4069 from Las Vegas to Oklahoma City, was still nine miles from the airport when it reached an altitude of about 525 feet, according to a report of The Associated. Tap that reported Flightradar24 data. The plane then climbed back to about 3,000 feet before landing successfully at its scheduled destination, Will Rogers World Airport, at 12:16 a.m. local time.An automated warning was triggered by the…
Nearly three years since McDonald’s announced it was working with IBM to develop an AI-powered order-taking system, videos have surfaced on social media showing confused and frustrated customers trying to fix comically inaccurate meals.”Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!” two friends screamed in humorous agony in a TikTok video as an AI guide gets their order wrong, collecting 240, 250 and then 260 Chicken McNuggets.In other videos, the AI calls a customer for nine iced teas instead of one, doesn’t explain why a customer couldn’t order Mountain Dew, and thought someone else wanted to add bacon to their ice cream.So…
Thousands of auto dealers across the United States and Canada are experiencing business disruption as a result of cyberattacks on a provider of critical software and data services used in the auto retail trade.The provider, CDK Global, said it was targeted in two attacks on Wednesday, prompting the company to shut down its systems to prevent the loss of customer data and allow testing and other measures to restore its services.”We are assessing the impact and providing regular updates to our customers,” CDK Global said in a statement. “We remain vigilant in our efforts to restore our services and return…