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Experts predict that northern Gaza will face famine conditions as soon as this month, with half the enclave’s population suffering from deadly levels of hunger, according to a new report by the global body that has ranked food security crises for decades.The report, released Monday by the global initiative Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, predicted that famine is “imminent” for the 300,000 Palestinian citizens in northern Gaza, where such conditions will be created by the end of May. And by mid-July, up to 1.1 million people in Gaza could face what the group described as the worst stage of hunger:…

Tommy Orange sat in front of a classroom in the Bronx, listening to a group of high school students discuss his novel “Over There.”A boy wearing blue glasses raised his hand. “All the characters have some form of disconnection, even trauma,” said Michael Almanzar, 19. “This is the world we live in. They are all around us. It’s not like he’s in some faraway land. He’s literally your next-door neighbor.”The class erupted into a series of finger snaps, as if we were in an old poetry school on the Lower East Side rather than an English class at the Millennium…

James D. Robinson III, who as chief executive of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993 helped transform Wall Street into a more competitive financial market with a wide variety of businesses housed under one roof, died Monday at Roslyn, New York, Long Island. It was 88.The death, at a hospital, was caused by respiratory failure from recurrent pneumonia, Walter Montgomery, a family spokesman, wrote in a statement.A mild-mannered son of Georgia gentry, Mr. Robinson followed a well-worn path to financial success, power and influence: from private school to the Ivy League and then the financial canyons of Lower Manhattan,…

An effort by two Republican-led states to limit the Biden administration’s interactions with social media companies met a tough reception at the Supreme Court on Monday, with several justices questioning the states’ legal theories and factual claims.The majority of justices appeared convinced that government officials should be able to try to persuade private companies, whether news organizations or technology platforms, not to release information as long as the requests are not backed by coercive threats.Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan, both former White House counsels, said interactions between administration officials and news outlets provided a valuable analogy. Officials’ efforts…

Camera traps, which automatically take pictures of wildlife when they detect movement and body heat, have become essential research tools for wildlife biologists. The new study is based on data from 102 different camera trapping projects in 21 countries. (Most were based in North America or Europe, but South America, Africa and Asia were also included.) The data allowed the scientists to study the activity patterns of 163 different species of wild mammals — and track how often humans showed up on the same points.”One of the key advantages of this work is that you get information on both humans…

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emerged from the three-day presidential vote that ended Sunday saying his landslide victory represented a public mandate to act as needed on the war in Ukraine as well as on various domestic issues, fueling concern among Russians. about what comes next.Mr Putin said the vote represented a desire for “internal unification” that would allow Russia to “act effectively on the front line”, as well as in other areas such as the economy.The government dismissed a protest organized by Russia’s beleaguered opposition, in which people expressed their dissent by flooding polling stations at midday. A…

On a recent Tuesday night, about 20 people crowded into the second floor of Joniel Bon’s newly opened internet cafe in Quezon City, 10 miles from Manila. Sitting at computers with 34-inch curved screens, they began playing video games such as Heroes of Mavia and Nifty Island as music by Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 blared from the speakers.Playing these games can be a full-time job, and some of Mr. Bon’s customers stayed up all night with slices of pizza to fuel them. The games reward players with cryptocurrency tokens for completing small, daily challenges. Often, players convert their tokens…

Central Sardinia is not generally thought of as a hotbed of innovation: arid and rural, some of its road signs riddled with bullet holes created by target-oriented locals, the setting reminiscent of a Clint Eastwood western. However, in Otana, at the site of a former petrochemical plant, a new technology is taking shape that can help the world slow climate change. The key ingredient of this technology is as unlikely as the remote location: carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.Energy Dome, a start-up based in Milan, has an energy storage demonstration unit that helps address a mismatch in…

Russian voters formed long lines outside polling stations in major cities during Sunday’s presidential election, with many saying they heeded opposition leaders’ call to protest the process that will keep Vladimir V. Putin firmly in power. .Before he died last month, Russian opposition leader Alexei A. Navalny had called on his supporters to go to the polls at noon on Sunday, the final day of three days of voting, to express their displeasure with Mr. Putin, who he is set to win his fifth presidential term in a vote that lacks real competition.Mr Navalny’s group, which continues his work, and…

Margaret Grade, a neuropsychologist from California who made a sharp career turn to open a welcoming, eclectic inn near the Point Reyes National Seashore that was known to treat farmers and fishermen with the same attention as stars and the film writers who sought refuge there. , died on February 28 in San Francisco. It was 72.Ms. Grade was injured in a car accident in Marin County on January 11th. She spent several weeks in a hospital before dying there from complications related to her injuries, said her brother Matthew Grade, a doctor.The introverted Mrs. Grade recognized that she was…