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World
8 Aug 2024
Multiple homes were burning in the San Bernardino area after a brush fire ignited Thursday morning and quickly grew to engulf 200 acres in the latest eruption of wildfire in California.
California Fires Burn Homes in San Bernardino
World
7 Aug 2024
Five years ago, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The protests and demonstrations that followed included tear gas, riot gear, police officers in armored vehicles, fires and looting.
Photos of Ferguson: What They Saw
World
6 Aug 2024
Moments after a man opened fire inside a classroom at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a student charged toward the gunman and tackled him, saving many lives but losing his own, authorities said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
What We Know About the Shooting at UNC Charlotte
World
6 Aug 2024
Primary voters in North Carolina are going to the polls Tuesday, looking to thin a field of more than two dozen candidates who are running to replace Walter B. Jones Jr., a longtime congressman who died in February. Jones, a Republican, had held the seat in the 3rd Congressional District on the Atlantic Coast from 1995 until his death.
World
6 Aug 2024
On April 2, the Department of Justice issued a horrifying report on Alabama’s prisons, with graphic accounts of prisoners who were tortured, burned, raped, sodomized, stabbed and murdered in largely unsupervised dorms. (In hundreds of reports of sexual abuse, for example, the investigators did not find a single instance of a guard intervening. Officers are so outnumbered, the report said, that they stay in a secure area rather than patrol.)
World
6 Aug 2024
Barbara Winslow Grant, a former charity fundraiser and leader in school volunteerism who was the wife of one New York Times publisher, the mother of another and the grandmother of a third, died Saturday in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She was 90.
World
6 Aug 2024
In The Edit, a New York Times newsletter for college students and recent graduates, The Times asked for stories about mental health on campus. The responses below have been edited and condensed.
Entertainment
6 Aug 2024
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Entertainment
5 Aug 2024
Carol Channing, who died Tuesday at 97, was a Broadway legend, an actress who toured well into her 70s and remained a cultural fixture long after that. Those who knew her remembered her as both a larger-than-life presence and a woman who was delightfully unpretentious, a tireless performer who would ignore doctor’s orders to go onstage and a tireless promoter of her shows, even in front of a crowd of Brownie Girl Scouts.
World
5 Aug 2024
LOS ANGELES — Holding plastic-covered signs on rain-drenched picket lines, more than 30,000 Los Angeles public school teachers began a long-planned strike Monday, the first in three decades in the district. As they demanded higher pay, smaller classes and more support staff in the schools, teachers said they were also fighting for more respect for public schools.