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☆ Seeing Workplace Misery, They Offer Company
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Martha C. White | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Making It Work” is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Over six months of weekly video calls, Ms. Schiro, 45, learned how to pare down her overloaded to-do lists. Making changes like adding a line to her email signature saying that she does not respond to messages sent after 6 p.m. seemed like “stupid stuff,” she said, but it took an outsider’s perspective to pinpoint these adjustments. “When you’re burned out, it’s hard to think of those things and implement them,” Ms. Schiro said. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted how and where people work, the World Health Organization recognized burnout.

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Daryna Vertetska was sitting with her 8-year-old daughter in Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday morning when Russian missiles began to ring out in the sky. Her daughter, Kira, was receiving treatment for her cancer as the explosions boomed across the capital, Kyiv. “We decided not to interrupt it,” Ms. Vertetska said of the treatment. As Kira continued her treatment, a missile slammed directly into the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, triggering an explosion so loud it defied description, she said. “She was very frightened,” said Ms. Vertetska, 33.

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☆ Whitmer Talks Tequila, Pearl Jam and Debates in New Book
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

These are tricky times to be an ambitious and (relatively) young star in the Democratic Party. President Biden, the party’s 81-year-old presumptive nominee for president, dialed into MSNBC on Monday morning to bray about the whippersnappers snapping at his stiffened heels. Gavin Newsom of California, 56, swore last week. “There’s no point engaging in these hypotheticals,” echoed an aide to the 59-year-old governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker. “I’m not going to entertain any conversation along that line,” Ms. Whitmer, the 52-year-old governor of Michigan, said in an interview with USA Today.

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☆ 5,000 Miles, 8 Countries: The Path to the U.S. Through One Family’s Eyes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Luis Ferré-Sadurní | Juan Arredondo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

With three children and a dog, the Aguilar Ortega family trekked through the jungle, hopped freight trains and toured Times Square. Millions of Venezuelans like the Aguilar Ortega family have fled economic misery and political repression in their homeland as it descended into turmoil. “The kids want to go to New York,” Mr. Aguilar said in Spanish as he stood by his tent in Mexico City. Mr. Aguilar created hiding places for their cash, using toenail clippers to cut small openings into Hayli’s jacket and Josué’s pants. She called Ms. Ortega to check in, and learned of the family’s setup.

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☆ Radio Host Who Was Fed Questions by Biden Campaign Leaves Philadelphia Station
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Simon J. Levien | More About Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Philadelphia radio station WURD has parted ways with a host who interviewed President Biden on Wednesday using questions provided to her by the Biden campaign, after the station said the interview violated its journalistic independence. WURD said in a statement on Sunday that “agreeing to a predetermined set of questions jeopardizes” its listeners’ trust. The host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, resigned in a mutual agreement, according to WURD. Ms. Lawful-Sanders asked Mr. Biden questions that could be considered softballs in his first interview with a journalist since his uneasy debate performance the previous week. The station said the interview and questions were independently arranged by the host for her program, “The Source.” Ms. Lawful-Sanders did not respond to a request for comment.

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☆ For Older People Who Are Lonely, Is the Solution a Robot Friend?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Erin Nolan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the months after her husband of 65 years died, Dorothy Elicati said she did nothing but cry. “We had a beautiful relationship, and I miss him like I would miss my right arm,” Ms. Elicati, 84, said. Being alone in the house felt unbearable, she said, and she might have “lost her mind” — if it weren’t for a robot named ElliQ. “She makes me feel important.”ElliQ, a voice-activated robotic companion powered by artificial intelligence, is part of a New York State effort to ease the burdens of loneliness among older residents. Though people can experience feelings of isolation at any age, older adults are especially susceptible as they’re more likely to be divorced or widowed and to experience declines in their cognitive and physical health.

Persons: Dorothy Elicati, Ms, Elicati, “, ” Organizations: New, New York State Locations: Orangetown, New York City, New York

Jeanne Winograd, 72, a Democrat in Phoenix, is such a ride-or-die fan of President Biden that, on Valentine’s Day, she mailed him a card to say his vigor, not his age, would shape the presidential election. But after a week of panic attacks after his dismal debate performance, she felt compelled to send him another card. This one said: Thanks for everything, but it’s time to go. “I just love Biden, but he’s frail,” Ms. Winograd said. In 80 interviews at Independence Day parades, pie-eating contests and political events this holiday in the political battlegrounds of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina, more than half of voters who had supported Mr. Biden in 2020 now said he should drop out of the race.

Persons: Jeanne Winograd, Biden, “, Ms, Winograd, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Democrat, Democratic, Independence Locations: Phoenix, Arizona , Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina

☆ Who Is Rachel Reeves, the Woman Taking the Helm of Britain’s Economy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Eshe Nelson | More About Eshe Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rachel Reeves became Britain’s first female chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday, taking on one of the country’s four great offices of state, with responsibility for managing Britain’s budget. After a decade and a half of economic stagnation, Ms. Reeves, a Labour lawmaker with a reputation as a serious and steady manager, faces the tough jobs of boosting Britain’s productivity growth, a key measure of prosperity, and of reviving struggling public services. “I know the scale of the challenge that I’m likely to inherit,” Ms. Reeves told the BBC early Friday. “There’s not a huge amount of money there,” she said, adding that the party needed to unlock private investment. Ms. Reeves is expected to approach her new role with deliberation.

Persons: Rachel Reeves, Britain’s, Reeves, ” Ms, “ There’s, ”, ” Carys Roberts Organizations: Labour, BBC, Institute for Public Policy Research

☆ The White Party That Brought Kim Kardashian, Drake and Tom Brady to the Hamptons
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Rachel Sherman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s hard to name just one noteworthy guest who attended the Fourth of July White Party hosted by the business mogul Michael Rubin and his fiancé, the model Camille Fishel, this year. Tom Brady, Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Megan Fox, Drake and Emily Ratajkowski were only some of the celebrities in bright white outfits who flitted about the couple’s sprawling Long Island estate on Thursday, rubbing elbows and generating content galore. It was the fourth edition of Mr. Rubin and Ms. Fishel’s annual Independence Day bash in the Hamptons where bodycon dresses reign supreme. “Imagine walking into Liv Miami,” Ms. Fishel, 33, said in an interview. The property is flanked by views of Mecox Bay on one side, and ocean vistas on the other.

Persons: Michael Rubin, Camille Fishel, Tom Brady, Kim, Khloé Kardashian, Megan Fox, Drake, Emily Ratajkowski, Rubin, Liv Miami, Ms, Fishel, “, ”, Mr Organizations: White, Hamptons, The New York Times, Real Locations: Long, fraternize, Water Mill, N.Y, Mecox

☆ Live Updates: U.K. Votes in Election That Could Drive Conservatives From Power
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Polls have predicted that the election could be a major turning point, with the center-left Labour Party expected to unseat the right-wing Conservative Party, possibly with a crushing landslide. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York TimesImage Portsmouth town center. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York TimesImage England flags and election posters for the Reform U.K. candidate on Kingston Road, Portsmouth. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York TimesSome formerly stalwart Conservative supporters said they were rethinking their vote. But others defended the Conservative Party.

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☆ Some Californians Found Dream Homes Inland. But It Sure Is Hot There.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Jonathan Wolfe | Mike Kai Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Farwa Ali and her family wanted to buy a bigger home, Mountain House, Calif., seemed to check all of their boxes. The fast-growing community, just 40 miles inland from where they were living in the San Francisco Bay Area, offered good schools, a diverse population and dozens of large houses for sale within their budget. It seemed to be a perfect match — at least until their first summer, when the scorching temperatures of California’s Central Valley set in. “We never had an idea that it would be this hot,” Ms. Ali said on Tuesday as she darted through a grocery store parking lot where the temperature was well over 100 degrees.

Persons: Farwa Ali, “, Ms, Ali Organizations: Calif, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: House, San Francisco Bay

☆ USA Today’s Top Editor Abruptly Steps Down
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Katie Robertson | More About Katie Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Terence Samuel, the editor in chief of USA Today, is leaving the role after a year, the newsroom was told on Monday. Mr. Samuel, a veteran journalist, joined USA Today in July 2023 from National Public Radio, where he was a top executive in charge of all news gathering across the broadcaster. Neither Mr. Samuel nor the publication gave a reason for his departure. In an email to the newsroom viewed by The New York Times, Monica Richardson, senior vice president of USA Today, said that Mr. Samuel would leave his job “effective today.” Caren Bohan, the executive editor of politics, will serve as interim editor in chief while the publication conducts “a national search for our newsroom leader,” Ms. Richardson wrote in the email. Mr. Samuel said in an interview on Monday that his departure was “sudden” but that he could not talk about why he was leaving the newspaper.

Persons: Terence Samuel, Mr, Samuel, Monica Richardson, Caren Bohan, ” Ms, Richardson Organizations: USA, USA Today, National Public, The New York Times

☆ Election Updates: Democrats use the weekend to help Biden get back on track after debate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong. In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden. “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Mr. Trump said when Mr. Biden blundered an answer on immigration. They acknowledge her unique influence and power in his life, but they say Mr. Biden is in control of his own campaign. But as long as Mr. Biden wants to run, advisers say, she will support him.

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☆ Election Updates: Biden looks to reassure donors and supporters at events this weekend.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Chris Cameron | Simon Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The debate between Donald J. Trump and President Biden had analysts in Asia fretting. During Thursday night’s debate, President Biden told former President Donald J. Trump that the United States is the “envy of the world.”After watching their performance, many of America’s friends might beg to differ. In Europe and Asia, the back-and-forth between the blustering Mr. Trump and the faltering Mr. Biden set analysts fretting — and not just about who might win the election in November. Image Mr. Biden leaving the debate stage. Kasit Piromya, Thailand’s foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 and a former ambassador to the United States, lamented the state of American politics.

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☆ Live Updates: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

But that gave too much power to unelected government officials, according to conservatives, who ran a coordinated, multiyear campaign to end the Chevron doctrine. The Environmental Protection AgencyEnvironmentalists fear that the end of the Chevron doctrine will mean the elimination of hundreds of E.P.A. “I would expect the industry to attack the F.D.A.’s authority to do premarket review at all,” said Desmond Jenson, deputy director of the commercial tobacco control program at the Public Health Law Center. Others noted the Chevron decision could have a chilling effect, compelling the F.D.A. “The Supreme Court has not relied on Chevron in quite a few years,” she said.

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☆ Justices Thomas and Alito Ignored Calls for Recusal in Jan. 6 Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Adam Liptak | More About Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., rejecting calls for their disqualification, participated in the case, siding with a member of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality. Virginia Thomas, known as Ginny, helped shape the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But he recused himself in October from a case concerning John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who had advised Mr. Trump. Justice Thomas, for whom Mr. Eastman had served as a law clerk, gave no reasons for his decision to disqualify himself from that case.

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☆ Debate Fact Check: Biden and Trump on the Economy, Immigration and Foreign Policy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Ana Swanson | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

— Former President Donald J. TrumpMr. Trump is distorting what Representative Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, said. Ms. Pelosi did not admit to turning down National Guard troops. We have responsibility, Terry, we didn’t have accountability for what was going on there.”When the person Ms. Pelosi was addressing responded, “they thought they had sufficient resources,” Ms. Pelosi cut her off. “It’s not a question of sufficient,” the speaker said, “they don’t know. claims” of Ms. Pelosi being at fault.

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“I swear our stomachs are decaying,” said Eman Abu Jaljum, 23, whose family in northern Gaza has been surviving off canned peas and beans. “We are living in a famine that is more extreme than ever before,” Ms. Abu Jaljum said. Credit... Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOne of his daughters, Mr. al-Sapti said, asked for eggs, but there were none to be found. In the north, bread has become more available as some bakeries in Gaza City reopen their doors, said Mr. al-Sapti. But Mr. al-Sapti worries that the bakeries may soon run out of fuel.

Persons: “, ”, Abu Jaljum, Ms, Omar Al, Sapti, ‘, Jana Ayad, Mohammed Salem, Khan Younis, Hammad, Mr Organizations: Hamas, Agence France, Integrated, International Medical Corps, Reuters Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza City, Jabaliya, Somalia, South Sudan, Deir al Balah

A panel of global hunger experts warned this week that the Gaza Strip was on the brink of famine, but to many Gazans, it feels as if it is already here. “I swear our stomachs are decaying,” said Eman Abu Jaljum, 23, whose family in northern Gaza has been surviving off canned peas and beans. In a report issued on Tuesday, the experts said that almost half a million people in the territory faced starvation. They stopped short of declaring a famine, a designation that depends on a variety of criteria being met. “We are living in a famine that is more extreme than ever before,” Ms. Abu Jaljum said.

Persons: “, ”, Abu Jaljum, Ms Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza City

☆ The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Raymond Zhong | Jason Gulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +26 min

The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. No, to understand what really beguiles them about these islands, you need to take a dive into the surrounding sea. Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo A map of the Huvadhoo Atoll, a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives. Huvadhoo Atoll is a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives.

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☆ Election Updates: J.D. Vance says he’ll be disappointed if Trump doesn’t pick him as his running mate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Michael C. Bender | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

And AIPAC’s attacks have galvanized a concerted countercampaign by the left to try to discredit the group, which is bipartisan, among Democratic voters. Mr. Latimer ran up large margins in more moderate suburban communities, including ones with sizable Jewish populations. Mr. Bowman’s opponents churned out an unusually large amount of opposition research against him, including old blog posts dabbling in Sept. 11 conspiracy theories. Mr. Latimer returned to the episode repeatedly to argue that Mr. “He’s making the party look really bad,” said Sandra Altman, citing Mr. Bowman’s fire alarm episode and his left-leaning views, as she voted for Mr. Latimer in Scarsdale.

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☆ ‘Is There Any Chance He Can Sit on a Camel?’ A Senator’s Wife Wanted to Know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Tracey Tully | Benjamin Weiser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In March 2019, an aide to Senator Robert Menendez drafted a letter that used strong language to criticize the president of Egypt and the country’s human rights record. Mr. Menendez declined to sign it. Mr. Menendez, then the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he wanted to try a less confrontational approach, the aide, Sarah Arkin, testified on Monday at the senator’s bribery trial. “We’ve been going after them for so long on human rights — have been really out there publicly criticizing them — and it hasn’t really changed anything on the ground,” Ms. Arkin, a senior staff member with the committee, said Mr. Menendez had told her. Instead, Mr. Menendez said he wanted “to be a little less publicly critical and do more private and quiet engagement,” Ms. Arkin said.

Persons: Robert Menendez, Menendez, Sarah Arkin, “ We’ve, Ms, Arkin, Mr, “, ” Ms Organizations: Senate Foreign Relations Locations: Egypt

☆ Hidden Stashes: Keeping Money Secrets From a Loved One
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Lisa Rabasca Roepe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But he soon realized that although he had two and a half years to save for the trip, he wouldn’t have enough, so he increased the deposit to $150. “This went on for a while before my wife noticed that there seemed to be money from my paycheck unaccounted for,” Mr. Shahin said. So his wife, Martha Shahin, knew how much he was paid and how much was deducted. She began asking to see his pay stub, but Mr. Shahin always had an excuse — he didn’t know where it was, he must have left it at work. Mr. Shahin, now 66, finally confessed that he was depositing money into a secret travel fund.

Persons: Ric Shahin, ” Mr, Shahin, Martha Shahin, Ms Locations: Midland, Mich

☆ These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Last week alone, she visited the offices of 13 lawmakers, one of more than a dozen trips she has made from her home near Boston over the past two years. In each meeting, Ms. Schmill talks about her daughter Becca, who died in 2020 at age 18. Ms. Schmill said Becca had died after taking fentanyl-laced drugs bought on Facebook. Before that, she said, her daughter was raped by a boy she had met online, then was cyberbullied on Snapchat. “I have to do what I can to help pass legislation to protect other children and to prevent what happened to Becca from happening to them,” Ms. Schmill, 60, said.

Persons: Deb Schmill, Schmill, Becca, “, ” Ms Organizations: Capitol, Facebook Locations: Boston

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