Nearly two million children may die of malnutrition because a product used to treat the condition is in short supply, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday. Four countries — Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Chad — have exhausted their supplies of the peanut-based, high-nutrient product, called ready-to-use therapeutic food, …
Read More »How Climate Disasters Are Making Mobile Homes a Huge Risk
By the time the murky brown water in the house reached his chest, Joe Rogers realized it was too late to leave safely. Then, in an instant, his mobile home shifted violently, creating a wave that swept up furniture and trapped his wife, Sandra, in their bedroom. Mr. Rogers pleaded …
Read More »State of the Race: A Close Race Gets Closer
Follow the latest updates on the 2024 election. The presidential race just keeps getting tighter. With three weeks to go, The New York Times’s polling average shows Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump essentially tied across the seven key battleground states, with the two separated by less than one percentage …
Read More »Harris’s Final Challenge: Restore a Splintering Democratic Coalition
In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is contending with erosion within the Democratic coalition that put Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House, and growing more dependent on white voters who historically aligned more with Republicans. Black and Latino voters, two essential …
Read More »Michigan Republican Blames ‘Proofing Error’ for Misleading Ad in Black-Owned Newspaper
Black state lawmakers in Michigan are calling on the state’s attorney general and a local county prosecutor to investigate the congressional campaign of Tom Barrett, a Republican, for an ad in a Black-owned newspaper that incorrectly listed Election Day as Nov. 6. The complaint from the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, …
Read More »Most Voters Have Been Offended by Trump. It’s Not Always a Deal Breaker.
The vast majority of voters across the United States say they have been offended at some point by former President Donald J. Trump. But a sizable number of those voters say that has not stopped them from supporting him. Overall, 70 percent of voters said that the former president had …
Read More »What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Wranglers’ and ‘Elsbeth’
For those who still enjoy a cable subscription, here is a selection of cable and network TV shows, movies and specials that broadcast this week, Oct. 14-20 Details and times are subject to change. Monday THE WRANGLERS 9 p.m. on the CW. This new documentary is like the reality show …
Read More »A Painter With an Eye for the Ridiculous
T Introduces highlights the debut of a singular person, place or thing. When the Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann painted “Strobe” (2021), a Surrealist beach landscape measuring 30 feet in length, she had just moved to New York, where she’d found representation with Company Gallery. Before that, she’d produced relatively small …
Read More »Isaac Hernández Brings Leading-Man Vibes to Ballet Theater
It was Isaac Hernández’s second week at American Ballet Theater, and he was feeling achy from rehearsals. But as soon as the pianist began to play, his body and eyes snapped to attention. It was his big entrance. He rushed across the studio in series of jumps, legs thwacking together …
Read More »They’re ‘Saturday Night Live’ … and You’re Not
It’s easy to get lost watching “Saturday Night”: Jason Reitman’s new film drops us backstage at a moment of maximum confusion — 90 minutes before the 1975 debut of a new NBC show called “Saturday Night.” At the center of all the hubbub is creator-producer Lorne Michaels (played by Gabriel …
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