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Paralyzed by a Police Bullet, He Describes a Life Forever Changed
The bullet, fired by a police officer who was sprinting into the 3 a.m. darkness, struck Khalif Cooper with improbable precision. The projectile penetrated the young man’s lower back before ripping through organs and coming to rest near his spine. By morning, Cooper had lost a kidney, half his colon and his ability to ever walk again.
The Glaring Blind Spot in College Admissions: Economic Diversity
The University of Virginia, one of the country’s top public universities, enrolls a strikingly affluent group of students: Fewer than 15% of recent undergraduates at UVA have come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for Pell Grants, the largest federal financial aid program.
A Golden Age in Texas Barbecue
Lockhart is the Barbecue Capital of Texas. This has been officially true since 1999 — thanks to a proclamation passed by the Texas House of Representatives — and unofficially true for years before that, thanks to how long people have been eating smoked meat in the central Texas town. Three of Lockhart’s most famous barbecue joints have been open for a combined 289 years.
Yellen’s China Visit Aims to Ease Tensions Amid Deep Divisions
WASHINGTON — The last time a U.S. treasury secretary visited China, Washington and Beijing were locked in a trade war, the Trump administration was preparing to label China a currency manipulator, and fraying relations between the two countries were roiling global markets.
It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama
Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one.
Russia’s Embassy in Washington Becomes a Different Kind of Battle Zone
WASHINGTON — On a warm June night, Benjamin Wittes was seated at a card table across the street from the Russian Embassy in Washington, kicking off his light show. Assembled around him was a sprawl of wires and equipment, including a laptop and two powerful light projectors. One of them was beaming a giant blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag onto the embassy’s white facade.
A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes
Disasters can push the world’s poorest deeper into poverty. Now aid agencies are trying something new. They’re giving small bits of cash to people just before disaster strikes, instead of waiting until afterward.
Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday?
For those planning the United States’ Semiquincentennial in 2026, the past few years have sometimes felt like one long winter at Valley Forge. They’ve had to battle public apathy toward the impending 250th anniversary of American independence, which has hardly been helped by the false starts, recriminations and lawsuits plaguing the federal commission charged with coordinating the celebration.
A Climate Laggard in America’s Industrial Heartland Has a Plan to Change, Fast
LANSING, Mich. — From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted south from Canada, Michigan has been contending with the fallout from climate change. Even the state’s famed cherry trees have been struggling against rising temperatures, forcing some farmers to abandon the crop.
House Republicans Demand Deep Cuts to Spending Bills They Rarely Support
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders working to write and pass the spending bills that fund the government face a major hurdle: Their own party — especially their most powerful, arch-conservative faction — has spent the past decade assailing federal spending and, with growing frequency, casting vote after vote against it.
One Black Family, One Affirmative Action Ruling, and Lots of Thoughts
For the Whiteheads, an African American family living in the city of Baltimore, race is discussed at the dinner table. In the car on the way to work and school and games. In the backyard while the sons practice sports.
U.S. Cities Have a Conversion Problem, and It’s Not Just Offices
There is an aging office building on Water Street in lower Manhattan where it would make all the sense in the world to create apartments. The 31-story building, once the headquarters of AIG, has windows all around and a shape suited to extra corner units. In a city with too little housing, it could hold 800 to 900 apartments. Right across the street, one office not so different from this one has already been turned into housing, and another is on the way.
9 Ways to Stay Shaded on a Sweltering Day in New York City
NEW YORK — With above-average temperatures predicted for this summer, New Yorkers are bracing for a scorcher. The risks to health and safety are real. More New Yorkers die from extreme heat than from any other kind of weather event, with Black residents dying at twice the rate of those who are white, and with older individuals particularly vulnerable. Air conditioning, for those fortunate enough to have it, drives up electricity bills and carbon emissions, exacerbating climate change, which is what is fueling the extreme heat to begin with. For those of us who want to spend the summer outdoors, tree canopies are few and far between — and very much in demand.
Shattered Nerves, Sleepless Nights: Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts
ARLINGTON, Va. — It sounded like popcorn warming in a microwave: sporadic bursts that quickened, gradually, to an arrhythmic clatter. “There it is,” Mary McKee said, staring out the front door of her home in Arlington, Virginia, on a recent afternoon.
NASCAR to Start Its Engines Along an Unlikely Course: Downtown Chicago
CHICAGO — When Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a deal to bring NASCAR to Chicago’s downtown streets, the idea was met locally with surprise and bewilderment. Chicagoans have a deep, if often unrequited, love for their sports teams, but a limited fluency in the world of stock car racing. NASCAR, for its part, had never sent its top drivers to race amid the sharp corners and manhole covers of city streets, mostly favoring neatly paved tracks in places like Daytona Beach, Florida, and Talladega, Alabama.
Two California Companies Will Soon Sell Lab-Grown Meat
A state long known for pushing the envelope, California is once again at the center of a new technological trend: lab-grown meat. The U.S. Agriculture Department last week approved the sale of meat grown from stem cells, a watershed moment for the alternative protein industry. To be clear, this isn’t another plant-based meat substitute like Impossible or Beyond burgers, but something that seems much closer to science fiction: actual meat cultivated from animal cells.
False Teeth, Fine Art and a ‘Bag Man’: New Details Emerge in Murder Plot
The case seemed to have all the ingredients to grow into the next big political scandal in a state well known for public corruption. Sean Caddle, a New Jersey political consultant with deep knowledge of campaign fundraising strategies, had pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill an associate, Michael Galdieri. Caddle’s lawyer — who made a name for himself representing reputed mobsters — volunteered in open court that his client was cooperating with the FBI on “developing an important investigation.”
The Number of Homeless People in Los Angeles Increases by 9%
LOS ANGELES — The number of people in Los Angeles County living in cars, on the sidewalks or in tucked-away tents, or sleeping in shelters, rose by 9% from a year ago, the latest measure of how intractable the homelessness crisis has become in California.
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