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Opinion | Gaza’s Rubble Is the Grave of Its Future Six month’s after the cease-fire, ordinary Gazans contemplate their future while living with the wounds of war.

“War, in and of itself, has become indivisible from Gaza: It’s in the landscape, in the harsh conditions that make up our days, in our bodies,” Ghada Abdulfattah writes. “The war does not feel finished. It continues to live within us. We can’t escape it.”

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Opinion | Our Troops Deserve More Than This We owe it to American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war.

“As former secretaries of defense and former members of Congress, we can personally attest to the problems that arise when our country engages in conflicts that drift without clear objectives and end points,” Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta write.

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There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare | Owen Jones Trump’s oil blockade is starving the island of vital resources. His brute force isn’t making America great again – it’s breeding resentment across the globe, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare | Owen Jones

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Cubans queue for water in Havana amid fuel and power crisis Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks ​as a combination of fuel shortages and power ‌grid instability left thousands of taps dry.

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Dolores Huerta Issues Statement on Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Allegations The labor leader said Wednesday that she had felt constrained to keep secret her abuse by Cesar Chavez — and the two children that she bore as a result.

“I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Dolores Huerta said on Wednesday that she had not previously revealed that Cesar Chavez had pressured and forced her into sex because she didn’t want to tarnish the farmworker rights movement that she had spent so long fighting for.

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Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior. (Published 2019)

Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior.

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A sandstorm hit Gaza on Saturday, slamming tents and other makeshift shelters with forceful gusts in an enclave where most of the population was displaced during the Israel-Hamas war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either | Paul Taylor Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either | Paul Taylor

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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.

It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.

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Ozzy Osbourne: A Life in Pictures

Ozzy Osbourne: A Life in Pictures

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Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the U.S. See maps of where smoke is traveling and how harmful the air has become.

Smoke from wildfires raging across Canada is expected to shroud parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, creating airborne pollution and hazy skies that had passed through sections of the Upper Midwest on Tuesday. See the forecast here.

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At This N.Y.C. Sumo Club, ‘Everybody Gets Thrown’

The one-day competition was the culmination of three years of hard work by Oscar Dolan, the club’s founder, who is a wrestler himself and a former U.S. lightweight silver medalist.

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The Pacific Coast Highway, a Mythic Route Always in Need of Repair

The famed Pacific Coast Highway clings to the edge of the continent for hundreds of miles. But in California, landslides, erosion and fires have closed it time and again. A recent trip along the roadway revealed the frustrations of many residents.

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China’s First Police Corgi Has 400,000 Followers and a Nose for Trouble

China’s first police corgi, Fu Zai, has won top workplace reviews as an unusual breed of sniffer dog. But his lack of self-control cost him his annual bonus after he was caught swiping a sausage from a child during a street patrol.

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Canada’s Wildfire Season Is Off to a Deadly Start

Two people were killed by a raging wildfire in Western Canada that forced the evacuation of an entire town but trapped the victims before they could be reached by rescue crews, the police said.

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Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press The anti-press playbook is being used in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.

“Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”

Read more in his Times Opinion essay:

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In Private, Some Israeli Officers Admit That Gaza Is on the Brink of Starvation

The humanitarian situation in Gaza: Most bakeries have shut, charity kitchens are closing and the United Nations’ World Food Program, which distributes aid and coordinates shipments, says it has run out of food stocks.

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Cuomo Loses $622,000 Over Concerns of Improper Super PAC Coordination

Breaking News: Andrew Cuomo was denied $622,000 in public mayoral campaign funds over suspicions of illegal coordination with a super PAC.

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Opinion | Serbia Is Showing America What’s Possible Serbian protesters are bravely combating a powerful autocratic government.

“Combating an entrenched and powerful autocratic government,” Filip Balunovic writes from Serbia, “protesters are showing what — against all the odds — is possible.”

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Alligator Kills Woman After Flipping Her Canoe in Florida, Officials Say

A 61-year-old woman was killed on Tuesday when an alligator tipped over the canoe that she and her husband were paddling through Central Florida and attacked her after they fell in the shallow water, the authorities said.

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Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza Our clinics have found clear evidence of starvation in one-third of the population. And now Israel wants to take over aid.

“Israel’s blockade — and the deliberate delays, denials and excessive security procedures that surround it — is not just a failure of logistics. It is an engineered system of deprivation,” writes Sean Carroll, the president of American Near East Refugee Aid, from Amman, Jordan.

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Black and White Street Photography in New York City 2022-2025 My personal Substack

Here’s some of my black and white street photography.

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George Foreman, Ageless Heavyweight Champion, Dies at 76 He claimed a world title in his 20s and again in his 40s, and then made millions selling grills.

Breaking News: George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion who parlayed his fame into a multimillion-dollar grill business, died at 76.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wildfires Fueled by Dry Conditions Quickly Spread Across Texas and Oklahoma Emergency crews in both states were scrambling to keep up with all the blazes popping up across the map.

An outbreak of wildfires fueled by dry conditions and hurricane-force winds was rapidly spreading across the Texas Panhandle and parts of Oklahoma on Friday, prompting evacuations, wreaking havoc on the roads and leaving thousands without power.

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Wildfires Break Out on Long Island, Prompting Highway Closure Weather forecasters had warned that low humidity and gusty winds would create an “elevated risk for fire spread.”

Brush fires broke out on Long Island on Saturday, forcing the closure of sections of a highway in Suffolk County amid high-risk fire conditions of low humidity and gusty winds.

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Wildfires in the Carolinas Prompt Evacuations The blazes were fueled by gusty winds, dry air and unusually high temperatures. The largest fire was burning 1,200 acres near Myrtle Beach on Sunday.

Breaking News: A fire near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, doubled in size overnight as more than 170 fires burned in the Carolinas, prompting evacuations near the coast and in the mountains.

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