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Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance
SAN FRANCISCO — As the largest loan exhibition of Sandro Botticelli in the United States to date, “Botticelli Drawings,” at the Legion of Honor, sounds at first like a celebration of a Renaissance talent on the order of the Metropolitan Museum’s celebration of Michelangelo’s drawings from a few years ago.
An $80 Billion Industry Looks for Child Workers. It Keeps Missing Them.
One morning in 2019, an auditor arrived at a meatpacking plant in rural Minnesota. He was there on behalf of the national drugstore chain Walgreens to ensure that the factory, which made the company’s house brand of beef jerky, was safe and free of labor abuses.
Young Iowa Republicans Raise Their Voices. Will Their Party Listen?
As Vivek Ramaswamy walked out of an event this month at Dordt University, a small Christian college in northwestern Iowa, the school’s football players greeted him with bro hugs and a challenge: Could he join one of them in doing 30 pushups?
Images of Watermelons Signal Support for Palestinians
On and off social media, watermelons are being used as a symbol to communicate solidarity with Palestinians in the deadly war between Israel and Hamas. The fruit is painted on semicircles of cardboard at protests in support of Palestinians. The watermelon emoji appears next to the Palestinian flag in display names on TikTok and X, formerly known as Twitter, and thousands of Instagram users have liked an illustration of a watermelon wedge whose seeds spell “ceasefire now.”
Chinese Spy Agency Rising to Challenge the CIA
The Chinese spies wanted more. In meetings during the pandemic with Chinese technology contractors, they complained that surveillance cameras tracking foreign diplomats, military officers and intelligence operatives in Beijing’s embassy district fell short of their needs.
Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals
The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on patient care in recent years.
Chaos, Fury, Mistakes: 600 Days Inside New York’s Migrant Crisis
NEW YORK — Nearly 70,000 migrants crammed into hundreds of emergency shelters. People sleeping on floors, or huddled on sidewalks in the December cold. Families packed into giant tents at the edge of the city, miles from schools or services.
Metal, Fire, ‘Hitting Stuff Hard’: Everybody Wants to Be a Blacksmith Now
The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal hooks.
For the Billionaire Who Has Everything, Consider an Island in the San Francisco Bay
RED ROCK ISLAND, Calif. — The words “private island” conjure up visions of mai tais, palm trees and solitary afternoons on a white sand beach. Red Rock Island is not that kind of island.
How Russian and Chinese Interference Could Affect the 2024 Election
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is preparing for its adversaries to intensify efforts to influence American voters next year. Russia has huge stakes in the presidential election. China seems poised to back a more aggressive campaign. Other countries, like Iran, might again try to sow division in the United States.
‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — There will be no musical festivities. No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas. With the war in the Gaza Strip raging, this is a city in mourning.
The Supreme Court Helped Trump’s Delay Strategy. By How Much Remains to Be Seen.
The Supreme Court’s decision Friday not to fast-track consideration of former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune to prosecution on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election was unquestionably a victory for Trump and his lawyers.
The Artists We Lost in 2023, in Their Words
The many creative people who died this year built their wisdom over lives generously long or much too short, through times of peace and periods of conflict. Their ideas, perspectives and humanity helped shape our own: in language spoken, written or left unsaid; in notes hit, lines delivered, boundaries pushed. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their voices.
Hunter Biden Text Cited in Impeachment Inquiry Is Not What GOP Suggests
In January 2019, Hunter Biden sent a text message to his daughter Naomi. “I Hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family Fro 30 years,” he wrote in the typo-filled message. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
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