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At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
NAIROBI, Kenya — At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine said Thursday.
Supreme Court Blocks Biden Plan on Air Pollution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment.
What to Watch at the First Trump-Biden Debate
The candidates are the same. The circumstances are very different. The first presidential debate of 2024 between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday offers both men the rare chance to tilt the direction of a race that has been defined by its stability.
Iran’s Presidential Candidates Agree on One Thing: Trump Is Coming
Throughout Iran’s presidential campaign, in debates, rallies and speeches, a singular presence has hovered: Donald Trump. To hear the six candidates tell it, the former president’s victory in the 2024 White House race is a foregone conclusion. The urgent question facing Iranian voters as they go to the polls Friday, they say, is who is best suited to deal with him.
JD Vance Says He’ll Be Disappointed if Trump Doesn’t Pick Him for VP
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio has long been considered one of Donald Trump’s top running mate choices and worked as hard as anyone to win the job — raising money for the campaign, speaking with a seemingly endless stream of cable news reporters and even sitting in the Manhattan courtroom with the former president to demonstrate his support.
The Pro-Israel Donor With a $100 Million Plan to Elect Trump
WASHINGTON — As the Nevada caucuses drew to a close in February, Donald Trump and several top aides gathered for a quick dinner in a suite atop his hotel in Las Vegas before he descended and declared victory.
The Southern Border, Terrorism Fears and the Arrests of 8 Tajik Men
WASHINGTON — When eight Tajik men sought asylum at the southwestern U.S. border months ago, federal authorities had no reason to doubt that they were desperate migrants fleeing a poor country in war-torn Central Asia.
In States That Won’t Pay for Obesity Drugs, ‘They May as Well Have Never Been Created’
Joanna Bailey, a family physician and obesity specialist, doesn’t want to tell her patients that they can’t take Wegovy, but she has gotten used to it. Around a quarter of the people she sees in her small clinic in Wyoming County would benefit from the weight-loss medications known as GLP-1s, which also include Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro, she said. The drugs have helped some of them lose 15% to 20% of their weight. But most people in the area she serves don’t have insurance that covers the cost, and virtually no one can afford sticker prices of $1,000 to $1,400 a month.
Unlikely Wild Animals Are Being Smuggled Into U.S. Ports: Corals
You might imagine that when federal wildlife inspectors search for illegally trafficked animal goods, they’d be on the lookout for elephant ivory or tiger skins. But other creatures are frequently being seized at American ports of entry, creatures you perhaps would not realize are animals: corals.
‘It’s All Happening Again.’ The Supply Chain Is Under Strain.
Stephanie Loomis had hoped that the chaos besieging the global supply chain was subsiding. The floating traffic jams off ports. The multiplying costs of moving freight. The resulting shortages of goods. All of this had seemed like an unpleasant memory confined to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In San Francisco, Doctors Feud Over ‘Do No Harm’ When It Comes to War Protests
SAN FRANCISCO — It looked like any other pro-Palestinian encampment at a college campus in the United States. The tents, the flags, the banners calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
On Day 7 of the Heat Wave, East Coast Cities Continue to Bake, With New Temperature Records
Heat continued Sunday to scorch the mid-Atlantic and the densely populated region from Washington, D.C., to New York, where the National Weather Service ranked the heat risk as “extreme” when accounting for the high temperatures and their unseasonably early arrival.
‘We’re Still Paying’: How Pets Became a Big Business
Heather Massey brought Ladybird to the veterinarian when the 9-year-old mutt began having seizures. A scan from an MRI machine revealed bad news: brain cancer. With the prognosis grim, Massey decided against further treatment at the animal hospital near her home in Athens, Georgia, and Ladybird died four months later. The MRI scan and related care had cost nearly $2,000, which Massey put on a specialty credit card she had learned about at a previous vet visit.
Fact-Checking Biden’s and Trump’s Claims About the Economy
WASHINGTON — Consumer sentiment about the state of the economy could be pivotal in shaping the 2024 presidential election. President Joe Biden is still grappling with how to address one of his biggest weaknesses: inflation, which has recently cooled but soared in his first years in office. Former President Donald Trump’s frequent economic boasts are undermined by the mass job losses and supply chain disruptions wrought by the pandemic.
These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
WASHINGTON — 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 has made from her home near Boston over the past two years.
At Stanford, 2 Reports on Bias Show Extent of Divide Between Jews and Muslims
Stanford on Thursday released dueling reports — one on antisemitism and the other on anti-Muslim bias — that revealed mirroring images of campus life in recent months that may be impossible to reconcile.
Tips for Renting an EV for Your Summer Vacation
Are you curious about electric vehicles but not ready to buy one? Renting one can help you see what it’s like — and some car rental companies are offering discounts. But having a smooth electric vehicle experience, especially if you rent for vacation, requires a fair amount of planning because fast-charging stations, while more available than they were four years ago, still aren’t ubiquitous, like gas stations.
Nearly 100 Million Under Temperature Advisories as Heat Wave Lingers
Almost 100 million people across the United States spent the first day of summer Thursday sweltering in temperatures that topped 90 degrees, as meteorologists warned that the high-pressure system that scorched the country for the past four days would linger through the weekend in many places.
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