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Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley, died in January as a result of “a small bowel obstruction” caused by scar tissue that developed after bariatric surgery years ago, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said on Thursday. Ms. Presley had been complaining on Jan. 12 of severe abdominal pain, according to an autopsy report released on Thursday by the medical examiner’s office. Later that day, she was found unresponsive at her home in Calabasas, Calif., by her ex-husband, who was not named in the report. Ms. Presley, 54, was taken by paramedics to a hospital, where she went into cardiac arrest and died that afternoon. The report stated that although Ms. Presley had a previous history of drug use, she was sober “for the past few years.” Still, health problems appeared to have occurred after her bariatric surgery, which is generally considered a treatment option for people with a high body mass index who failed to lose weight with diet and exercise alone.

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☆ Northwestern Fires Pat Fitzgerald, Football Coach, Amid Hazing Allegations
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Eduardo Medina | More About Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Northwestern University on Monday fired Pat Fitzgerald, its longtime head football coach, after an investigation found that his players had participated in widespread hazing, including forced nudity and sexualized acts. His firing came three days after the university said that Fitzgerald, who had been head coach of the Wildcats since 2006, would be suspended for two weeks without pay after the investigation found the hazing allegations to be credible. Michael Schill, the president of Northwestern, said in a statement that the decision to fire Fitzgerald, 48, came “after a difficult and complex evaluation” of his earlier discipline and after discussions with the board of trustees, students, alumni and Fitzgerald. “The decision to originally suspend Coach Fitzgerald was mine and mine alone, as is the decision to part ways with him,” Schill said.

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A slow-moving storm system brought heavy rain across a wide section of New York State on Sunday evening, flooding streets and prompting rescues for drivers whose vehicles were stranded on inundated roads, the authorities said. Two areas appeared to be most affected, according to the National Weather Service: Rensselaer County and nearby towns, and farther south in the Hudson Valley, including Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties. County officials, police departments and other agencies were fielding dozens of emergency calls prompted by the flooding. In Saratoga County, near the town of Waterford, Routes 4 and 32 were flooded with up to two feet of water, said Andrei Evbuoma, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Albany.

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A gunman killed one person and wounded three others on Saturday as he drove a scooter across Brooklyn and Queens, randomly firing at groups of people and at stores in a chaotic two-hour stretch before the police arrested him, the New York Police Department said. The 25-year-old gunman, whose name was not released by the authorities, began his rampage around 11 a.m. in Brooklyn where he shot a 21-year-old man in the left shoulder from behind, prompting officers to respond to the scene near the corner of Ashford Street and Arlington Avenue, Joseph Kenny, an assistant chief at the detective bureau, said at a news conference. Seventeen minutes later, a report came of another shooting, this time in Queens, which mirrored the one in Brooklyn, Chief Kenny said: a man on a scooter firing a gun. At the second attack, the gunman fatally shot an 87-year-old man near a nail salon on Jamaica Avenue near the Richmond Hills section of Queens, the police said.

Persons: Joseph Kenny, Kenny Organizations: New York Police Department, Arlington Locations: Brooklyn, Queens, Ashford Street, Jamaica, Richmond

☆ Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Eduardo Medina | Ryan Mac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk said on Saturday that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of posts users can read per day to address concerns over data scraping, just hours after thousands of users reported widespread problems using the site. Many of those users reported that they were getting an error message that they had “exceeded” their “rate limit,” suggesting that they had violated Twitter’s rules and downloaded and viewed too many tweets. Mr. Musk, who said on Friday that “several hundred organizations” were taking Twitter’s data in a process called scraping and that “it was affecting the real user experience,” did not say how long the limits would last or what could prompt him to lift the restriction. He originally said that verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts and new unverified accounts to 300 posts.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, ” Organizations: Twitter

☆ Ex-Social Worker, 32, Pretended to Be a Boston High School Student, Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Eduardo Medina | Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

At English High School, she went by Ellie. At Jeremiah E. Burke High School, she introduced herself as Daniella. But the authorities have now learned that Ellie and Daniella were the aliases for Shelby Hewitt, a 32-year-old former state social worker who they say posed as a high school student at three Boston public schools — where she gossiped with teenagers during lunch and complained about homework. On Tuesday, she was charged with three counts of forgery of documents, two counts of false writing and one count of identity fraud in West Roxbury Division Boston Municipal Court, records show. Ms. Hewitt — who enrolled under different aliases in the 2022-2023 school year at English, Jeremiah E. Burke, and Brighton High schools by forging paperwork — had not been arrested as of Thursday, according to the Boston Police Department, which declined to answer questions about the case.

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☆ Debris and Presumed Human Remains From Lost Titan Are Recovered
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Remy Tumin | Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The LatestDebris and presumed human remains from the Titan submersible have been recovered and returned to land, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Wednesday night, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue operation ended and the vessel’s five passengers were presumed dead. At a Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday, crews unloaded what appeared to be the Titan’s 22-foot hull, crinkled and twisted with exposed wires and cables. United States medical professionals “will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident,” the Coast Guard said in a statement. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the investigation into why the submersible imploded and has convened a marine board of investigation, the highest level of investigation in the Coast Guard. The discovery suggested a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

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☆ With Reversed Hind Legs and a Loose Tongue, a New Ugly Dog Champion Is Crowned
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Perhaps it was Scooter’s resemblance to a glossy black jelly bean that earned him the title on Friday night as champion of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. Or maybe it was his shock-headed, mohawk-like hair — strands that stood high in defiance of gravity — that pleased the judges in Petaluma, Calif., at the Sonoma-Marin Fair. His tongue hangs loose from his mouth. His hind legs are reversed. “In the cutest way possible, he kind of reminds me of a hairy hippopotamus,” said Catherine Liang, one of the judges in the competition.

Persons: Marin Fair, ”, Catherine Liang Organizations: Sonoma, Marin, “ Locations: mohawk, Petaluma , Calif

A powerful storm struck the northern Texas town of Matador on Wednesday night, killing at least four people, damaging about a dozen buildings and prompting a search for residents who might have been injured or trapped by debris, the authorities said. At least nine people were hurt. The storm swept through the small town of about 600 residents as thousands of people across the region were sweltering in a triple-digit heat wave that may not ease until the Fourth of July, and as other storms earlier in the week spawned deadly tornadoes and punishing hail across the South. A tornado warning was issued for Matador, roughly 300 miles northwest of Dallas, as the storm barreled through around 8 p.m., said William Iwasko, a National Weather Service meteorologist. He said the damage suggested there was “most likely” a tornado, but that had not been confirmed as of early Thursday morning.

Persons: William Iwasko Organizations: Matador, National Weather Service Locations: Texas, Matador, Dallas

☆ Storm Barrels Through Tiny Texas Town, Killing at Least 3
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A powerful storm struck the northern Texas town of Matador on Wednesday night, killing at least three people, damaging about a dozen buildings and prompting a search for people who might have been injured or trapped by debris, the authorities said. Matador, which has about 600 residents, is roughly 290 miles northwest of Dallas and was under a tornado warning as the storm barreled through the area around 8 p.m., said William Iwasko, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lubbock. “Based on the damage,’’ he added, “there was most likely a tornado” in Matador, but that will be determined on Thursday. The mayor of Matador, Pat Smith, who also provides emergency medical services in the town, said in a brief phone interview that at least three people had been killed, that others may be injured and that there was “a whole lot of damage.”

Persons: William Iwasko, Pat Smith Organizations: Matador, National Weather Service Locations: Texas, Matador, Dallas, Lubbock

☆ These Cowboys Build a New Juneteenth Tradition at a Rodeo in Portland
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Brent Lewis | Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ivan McClellan, a photographer, was captivated the first time he came across Black cowboy culture at a rodeo in Oklahoma years ago. He saw Black people donning cowboy hats and saddling horses, images that inspired him to fully document that community in his work. This year, though, he wanted to go a step further. Mr. McClellan and Vince Jones-Dixon, a city councilor in Gresham, Ore., sought to host a Juneteenth rodeo in Portland, one that would bring together the Black cowboy and cowgirl communities across the Pacific Northwest.

Persons: Ivan McClellan, McClellan, Vince Jones, Dixon Locations: Oklahoma, Gresham , Ore, Portland, Pacific Northwest

☆ ‘Just Disgusting’: A Nevada City Confronts Millions of Smelly Mormon Crickets
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Millions of Mormon crickets have arrived in Elko, Nev., the spindly copper creatures blanketing parts of the city, so staff members at the Shilo Inns Elko on Saturday discussed ways to combat them. Hotel workers poured a hot water mix of vinegar, bleach and dish soap. They even aimed pressure washers at the brown clusters of exoskeletons. Finally, Kimmy Hall, the general manager of Shilo Inns, told her overwhelmed staff: “We can’t win against them. But we can hold them off.”Such has been the mood in Elko, a city of roughly 20,000 residents, as it’s been infested with Mormon crickets, which have recently hatched and are in a migratory phase.

Organizations: Shilo Inns, Kimmy Locations: Elko, Nev, Shilo, Shilo Inns Elko

☆ Thieves’ Loot: A Warhol, a Pollock and 9 of Berra’s World Series Rings
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An alarm at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y., blared at about 2 a.m. on a fall morning in 2015, prompting its director to drive to the building and learn that culprits had broken in and stolen six championship belts from the ’40s and ’50s. “Who could do this to a hall of fame museum?” Edward Brophy asked police officers. Blood from one of the thieves appeared to drip from the splintered glass of a window they had broken in through. Mr. Brophy recalled thinking at the time: Maybe that would help investigators find the culprits. Nearly a decade later, it did.

Persons: ” Edward Brophy, Brophy, Andy Warhol, Yogi Berra, — Organizations: International Boxing Hall of Fame, Federal, New York Yankees Locations: Canastota, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania , New Jersey , New York , Massachusetts, North Dakota

Rey Steve Mabiala and his wife, Liz Gouari, taking refuge at the Roberval emergency center after being ordered to evacuate Chibougamau, Quebec, as a fire approached. Of the more than 400 fires now burning in Canada, more than one-third are in Quebec, which has already registered its worst wildfire season on record. Credit... Carlos Osorio/Reuters“We are facing some unprecedented events, including droughts, accelerated fires and heat waves, and there will be more over time, especially forest fires,” Ms. Mohsin said. But perhaps most surprised were newcomers to Chibougamau, like Mr. Mabiala, from the Republic of Congo, who came to work in logging. “They were asking, “Oh, is there such a thing in Canada?’ ’’ Ms. Cabrera said.

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Fires are burning across the breadth of Canada, blanketing parts of the eastern United States with choking, orange-gray smoke. So much wildfire smoke pushed through the border that in Buffalo, schools canceled outdoor activities. The average global temperatures today are more than 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the preindustrial era. The trees and grasses of eastern Canada turned to tinder. “We should expect a stunning year of global extremes,” he wrote.

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In Ontario, a layer of haze blanketed parts of Ottawa and Toronto, where Canadian officials warned residents about the poor air quality, as smoke floated over portions of New York State and Vermont. All of New York City was under an air quality alert on Tuesday because of the smoke; by the afternoon, the Manhattan skyline was obscured by hazy skies. In eastern Canada, Quebec was most affected by wildfires as of early Tuesday afternoon, with more than 150 active blazes across the area, according to the fire agency. Weather officials warned that people more sensitive to poor air quality, such as people with lung disease and heart disease, children and older adults, should limit certain activities outdoors. Air quality alerts were also in place in New York City and in multiple counties in upstate New York through midnight.

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☆ Tara Reade, Who Accused Biden of Assault, Says She Has Moved to Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who accused President Biden of sexual assault as he ran for president in 2020, said on Tuesday that she had moved to Russia and was seeking citizenship there, according to Sputnik, a Russian-government-run news site. Then in 2020, around the time when he appeared likely to win the Democratic nomination for president, she accused him of sexual assault. Mr. Biden flatly denied her allegations. In interviews with The New York Times in April 2020, no former Biden staff members could corroborate any details of Ms. Reade’s allegation or recall any similar behavior by Mr. Biden toward her or any women. A friend of Ms. Reade’s said that she had told her the details of the allegation at the time.

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☆ Grenade Detonation Kills Father and Injures His Two Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An Indiana father was killed and his two children were injured after they went through a grandfather’s belongings and found a hand grenade that detonated when someone pulled the pin, the authorities said. The explosion, which occurred Saturday sometime before 6:30 p.m., unleashed shrapnel that injured the father’s 14-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter, who were taken to a hospital, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. Their conditions were not immediately known on Sunday night, and the authorities have not identified members of the family. The father was found dead at the scene, the sheriff’s department said. A bomb squad was called to the home “to secure the area and determine whether there may be additional explosive devices,” the authorities said.

☆ At Least 9 Dead in Soccer Stadium Stampede in El Salvador
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At least nine people have died in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the authorities said, in a chaotic scene that left other fans injured and at least two hospitalized in critical condition. Videos circulating on Twitter and published by local news sites showed dozens of people clad in white appearing to rush toward an exit at the stadium, with some lying on the ground as more pile on top. It was not immediately clear what prompted the rush at Cuscatlán Stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, where the first-league soccer teams, Alianza and FAS, were playing the second leg of a quarterfinal. On a livestream of the match that was posted on YouTube, game commentators said they could see some type of commotion going on in the stands, noting that some people appeared to be passed out. Fans eventually stepped onto the field, and the game was halted, the commentators said in the livestream.

☆ Tropical Storm Mawar Expected to Strengthen as It Moves Toward Guam
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Tropical Storm Mawar rapidly strengthened in the Pacific and was expected to become a powerful typhoon, threatening to bring high winds and possible flooding to the Mariana Islands, including Guam, the National Weather Service said. The storm, which formed early on Sunday morning local time and was slowly moving northward, could hit Guam, a U.S. territory, as early as Tuesday, said Brandon Bukunt, a meteorologist with the Weather Service. “We might have to put out typhoon warnings, in which typhoon conditions are expected,” Mr. Bukunt said. “But for right now, given the uncertainty, we have a typhoon watch, which means that typhoon conditions are possible within two days.”Tropical Storm Mawar had maximum sustained wind speeds of 50 miles per hour as of Sunday morning local time, when it was about 570 miles southeast of Guam, the Weather Service said.

☆ Kia and Hyundai to Pay $200 Million to Settle Suit Over Car Thefts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Kia and Hyundai have agreed to pay about $200 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the manufacturers of producing vehicles that have been especially vulnerable to theft, lawyers for the car owners and the manufacturers said on Thursday. The settlement, which affects the owners of about nine million vehicles, came as the nation contends with a surge in auto thefts fueled in part by videos on TikTok and YouTube that demonstrate the ease in which Kia and Hyundai vehicles can be stolen. Lawyers representing affected vehicle owners said in a news release that the automakers failed to equip several models from 2011 through 2022 with an immobilizer, a common anti-theft device that “prevents most vehicles from being started unless a code is transmitted from the vehicle’s smart key.”

☆ Meet ‘Chonkosaurus,’ the Thick Snapping Turtle Stealing Hearts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It was so fat, you know, the legs kind of spilled out,” Mr. Santore recalled. “It looked like a fat sandbag.”Its size has prompted a question online: What has the animal been eating? Perhaps the most valuable insight came from the men in the video who actually saw Chonkosaurus. “Holy hell, you look good!” Mr. Santore says in the video. You’ve been eating healthy?” He asks the turtle if it has heard of liquid salad, and Mr. Scorch later says that Chonkosaurus is “thick but strong.”Chonkosaurus’s nutritional pursuit does not appear to be completely selfish, however.

A Texas gunman who was being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of five people on Friday night after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon remained at large, the authorities said on Sunday. The gunman, Francisco Oropesa, 38, refused a request by the neighbor to stop shooting because the noise was keeping his baby awake. Instead, the authorities said, Mr. Oropesa retrieved an AR-15 and opened fire at his neighbor’s home in Cleveland, Texas. Mr. Oropesa, officials said, shot several members of the same family. At a news conference on Sunday, the authorities said that more than 200 law enforcement officers were looking for Mr. Oropesa and that they had no leads regarding his whereabouts.

☆ Montana Governor’s Nonbinary Son Calls on Him to Reject Transgender Bills
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Eduardo Medina | Jacey Fortin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As debates over transgender issues embroil Montana’s legislature, the governor has faced lobbying from someone close to him: his son, who identifies as nonbinary and has pleaded with his father to reject what he called “immoral, unjust” bills backed by Republicans. In an interview with The Montana Free Press published Wednesday, David Gianforte, who uses he and they pronouns, said he had sat down with his father, Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, last month with a prepared statement in hand to read aloud. David Gianforte, 32, told The Montana Free Press, a nonprofit news outlet, that he had written down why he believed bills that were gaining traction in the State Senate and House would be harmful to the L.G.B.T.Q. On March 27, he began his meeting with Governor Gianforte and his top health adviser with a familial introduction, according to The Free Press: “Hey Dad.

☆ Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Found Guilty in Illegal Foreign Influence Scheme
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A founding member of the hip-hop group the Fugees was found guilty in federal court on Wednesday of orchestrating a sprawling international conspiracy that used millions of dollars worth of foreign money for illegal lobbying and campaign contributions, the Justice Department said. The rapper Prakazrel Michel, known as Pras, had been accused of accepting $865,000 from Low Taek Jho, a Malaysian financier, and giving that money to a network of straw donors who used it to make campaign contributions to former President Barack Obama in 2012. Mr. Michel was also accused by prosecutors of trying to convince the Trump administration and the Justice Department to drop federal investigations into Mr. Low related to embezzlement, as well as assisting China in its efforts to have a Chinese dissident brought back to China, according to the Justice Department. Mr. Michel, who received millions of dollars for his part in the schemes, was convicted of 10 criminal counts including money laundering, illegal lobbying, witness tampering and campaign finance violations, according to court records. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison.

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