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What ER Doctors Want You to Know About Extreme Heat
The heat index hit 112 degrees in Miami this week. Monkeys have been dropping dead amid scorching heat in Mexico. India is experiencing its latest heat crisis. With warmer temperatures comes a greater potential for heat-related illnesses. Rates of emergency room visits for conditions related to heat rose substantially in many parts of the United States last summer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And weather experts are again predicting above-normal temperatures in much of the country this summer.
Migrant Housing, Tourist Demand: Why NYC Hotel Rooms Are So Expensive
NEW YORK — In late 2022, as thousands of migrants began to arrive in New York City, city officials scrambled to find places to house them. They quickly found takers: hotels that were still struggling to recover from the pandemic-driven downturn in tourism.
Sometimes U.S. and U.K. Politics Seem in Lockstep. Not This Year.
LONDON — A Conservative British prime minister sets the date for a long-awaited vote in the early summer and the United States follows with a momentous presidential election a few months later. It happened in 2016, when Britons voted for Brexit and Americans elected Donald Trump, and now it’s happening again.
NCAA Athletes’ Pay Deal Raises Questions About Future of College Sports
Brent Jacquette knows a thing or two about college sports. A former collegiate soccer player and coach in Pennsylvania who is now an executive at a consulting firm for athletic recruiting, he’s well aware of issues surrounding pay for college athletes.
Deadly Raid on Gun Seller Brings Outrage in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The loud noises outside their bedroom door woke them before dawn. Bryan Malinowski bolted up and looked at his wife, Maer. “Stay back,” she remembers him saying after he reached into a drawer for his gun and loaded it.
Weinstein’s Lawyer Tried to Intimidate Witnesses, Prosecutors Say
NEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked the judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sex crimes charges to urge the lead defense lawyer to stop making public statements that prosecutors said were intended to intimidate and to attack the “credibility and character” of witnesses.
A Test of Cloud-Brightening Machines Poses No Health Risk, Officials Say
A technology that could one day cool the planet cleared a key hurdle Thursday. At the beginning of April, scientists from the University of Washington began testing a device that sprays tiny sea-salt particles into the air. The initial tests, held on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in Alameda, California, were simply to see if the machine propelled a mist of suitable size. But, in the future, versions of that device could eventually be used to spray particles into clouds, causing them to reflect more sunlight back into space and to temporarily ease global warming.
In House Hearing, Republicans Demand Discipline for Student Protesters
WASHINGTON — House Republicans used words like “violence,” “hijacking” and “chaos.” They asked the university leaders why so few protesters had been suspended. They showed videos and wielded a document with a bright red “F” grade.
Almost 6,000 Dead in 6 Years: How Baltimore Became the U.S. Overdose Capital
BALTIMORE — People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major U.S. city. In the past six years, nearly 6,000 lives have been lost. The death rate from 2018 to 2022 was nearly double that of any other large city and higher than nearly all of Appalachia during the prescription pill crisis, the Midwest during the height of rural meth labs or New York during the crack epidemic.
2024 Hurricane Season Is Expected to Be Abnormally Busy, NOAA Predicts
In yet another dire warning about the coming Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday predicted that this year could see between 17 to 25 named tropical cyclones, the most it has ever forecast in May for the Atlantic Ocean.
‘A Completely Different Town Now’: A Community Reels From a Deadly Tornado
Not long after the tornado hit Greenfield, Iowa, residents were already using skid loaders to clear streets. With the hospital damaged, a medical triage center started at the local lumberyard. Paramedics and police officers from across the western half of Iowa were speeding in to help.
Judge Blocks Florida From Criminalizing Transport of Immigrants
A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked part of a Florida law that criminalized transporting into the state anyone who lacked lawful immigration status. The injunction throws into question a key enforcement component of the law, which went into effect in July and was championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis as he ran for the Republican nomination for president.
Anyone Want to Be a College President? There Are (Many) Openings
To glimpse the tumultuous transitions in U.S. college leadership these days, look no further than the witnesses set to testify at a congressional hearing Thursday, the fourth in a fiery series on campus antisemitism that has helped topple two university presidents.
Giuliani and Other Trump Allies Arraigned in Arizona Election Case
PHOENIX — The arraignments of Rudy Giuliani and 10 other allies of Donald Trump were underway Tuesday morning in an Arizona criminal case that charges them with trying to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. Seeks to Join Forces With Europe to Combat Excess Chinese Goods
FRANKFURT, Germany — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the United States and Europe needed to work together to push back against China’s excess industrial capacity, warning that a wave of cheap Chinese exports represents a grave threat to the global economy.
Will Trump Run as a Felon? A Big 2024 Question Will Soon Be Answered.
The witness list is winding down. Closing statements are expected early next week. Then a New York City jury will gather in the first criminal trial of a former president to determine whether Donald Trump will campaign this fall as a convicted felon.
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