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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.
School Official Convicted of Serving Students Chicken With Bits of Metal
NEW YORK — In late 2016, Somma Food Group had a problem with its chicken tenders. New York City schools had stopped serving the savory poultry gobbets after people found foreign objects inside them. A school employee choked on a bone inside one of the supposedly boneless tenders. Then there were the reports about pieces of metal.
Brutal Heat Wave Is Expected to Spread Across the South
The oppressive heat wave that has the southern United States sweltering this week is expected to continue, spreading north and east to parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, and is threatening to raise the heat index to dangerously high levels in places, according to the National Weather Service.
How Migrants Flown to Martha’s Vineyard Came to Call It Home
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — On a sprawling Martha’s Vineyard estate not far from the seashore, Deici Cauro adjusted a baseball cap to keep the burning sun at bay. She was crouching to pull weeds with her bare hands when a familiar voice called out from the other side of the yard.
Report on Epstein’s Death Finds Errors and Mismanagement at Manhattan Jail
Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in a cell with a bedsheet tied around his neck in 2019, died by suicide, not foul play — following a cascade of negligence and mismanagement at the now-shuttered federal jail in New York City where he was housed, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general.
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Are at Highest Level in 41 Years, Report Says
The number of pedestrians who were struck and killed by vehicles in 2022 was the highest it’s been since 1981, according to a report based on state government data. At least 7,508 people who were out walking were struck and killed in the United States last year, said the report, published Friday by the Governors Highway Safety Association, a nonprofit that represents states’ safety offices. The report used preliminary data from government agencies in 49 states and Washington, D.C. (Oklahoma had incomplete data because of a technical issue and was the only state to not provide data, the association said.)
Barbiecore Is Surging Its Way into Home Décor and Interior Design
Amanda Hansen loves a hot pink moment. “I think I just naturally am such a pink froufrou girl. All my stuff. Everything I buy is always a little bit Barbie-esque,” she said. “So it has taken over.”
Accused Club Q Shooter Pleads Guilty in Court
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The 23-year-old charged with carrying out a deadly shooting rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs pleaded guilty Monday to dozens of charges of murder and attempted murder, avoiding a prolonged trial over a deadly attack on members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Intensifying Rains Pose Hidden Flood Risks Across the U.S.
As climate change intensifies severe rainstorms, the infrastructure protecting millions of Americans from flooding faces growing risk of failures, according to new calculations of expected precipitation in every county and locality across the contiguous United States.
Who Won the NBA Draft Fashion Game?
The fact that the NBA draft occurred smack in the middle of the Paris menswear shows was something of a cosmically appropriate coincidence. After all, the draft has increasingly become one of our most watched runways, the heart of the convergence between fashion and sport that has spawned the tunnel walk and social media accounts that chronicle players’ wardrobes — and leads to front row seats at shows like Louis Vuitton, recently attended by LeBron James, and Rick Owens, where Kyle Kuzma showed up. And it is only getting more important.
Lights, Camera, Criminal Defense: Lawyers Pick Up Cameras to Aid Clients
NEW YORK — The filmmaker set up his tripod outside a South Bronx public housing complex on a recent morning, recording traffic rumbling past aging buildings, playgrounds, older people greeting one another in Caribbean-accented Spanish and a growing line at a church food pantry.
The Race to Prevent ‘the Worst Case Scenario for Machine Learning’
Dave Willner has had a front-row seat to the evolution of the worst things on the internet. He started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their rules as they went along. As the company’s head of content policy, it was Willner who wrote Facebook’s first official community standards more than a decade ago, turning what he has said was an informal one-page list that mostly boiled down to a ban on “Hitler and naked people” into what is now a voluminous catalog of slurs, crimes and other grotesqueries that are banned across all of Meta’s platforms.
What Financial Planning Looks Like for LGBTQ People
I married my wife last October in a backyard wedding that my parents hosted and covered for $5,000. My wife’s mother gave us an equivalent honeymoon fund to fly us to France, and our guests were also generous, giving us — to our surprise — a few thousand dollars to start our new lives.
Jails Officer Faked Suicide Prevention Training for 74 Guards, DA Says
NEW YORK — Amid a suicide crisis in New York City’s jails, a correction officer falsified records to show that scores of her peers had taken a suicide prevention course that they had not actually completed, Bronx prosecutors and the Department of Investigation said Friday.
Facing Brutal Heat, the Texas Electric Grid Has a New Ally: Solar Power
Strafed by powerful storms and superheated by a dome of hot air, Texas has been enduring a dangerous early heat wave this week that has broken temperature records and strained the state’s independent power grid.
JPMorgan’s Epstein Deal Sets No Cap or Minimum on Victims’ Claims
NEW YORK — The proposed $290 million settlement between JPMorgan Chase and sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein carries no minimum or maximum payout for each individual, leaving that decision to the claims administrator appointed to oversee the process, according to a plan filed in federal court Thursday.
After Midnight at the NBA Draft, Dreams Still Come True
Mark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the NBA, had an important job — though not a glamorous one — on Thursday night. Shortly after 11 p.m., Tatum clocked in to begin announcing the names of the players who had been selected in the second round of the NBA draft at Barclays Center. By then, the crowd had thinned, leaving just dozens of scattered fans — and sharply dressed but tired family members — as his audience. There might have been tumbleweeds somewhere.
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