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Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate
WASHINGTON — In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by burning oil, gas and coal, Mr. Moynihan wrote, would dangerously heat the planet, melt the glaciers and cause the seas to rise. “Goodbye New York,” Mr. Moynihan…
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Israel-Palestine Live Updates: At Least 36 Killed, 311 Wounded in Gaza
Palestinian police inspecting damage on Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military and Gaza-based militants have been engaged in two days of fierce cross-border attacks.Credit…Mohammed Salem/Reuters JERUSALEM — An Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza on Sunday, raising hopes for a cease-fire that could end three days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic…
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Russia-Ukraine War: Latest News – The New York Times
Russia has held the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since March.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of firing rockets that landed on the grounds of a nuclear power plant that Russia has seized in the south of the country, further raising the risk of an accident at a complex where the United Nations’ nuclear…
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Biden faces conflicting demands after Griner verdict.
WASHINGTON — Immediately after a Moscow judge handed down Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence on Thursday, calls grew louder for President Biden to find a way to bring her home, even as critics fumed that offering to swap prisoners with Moscow rewarded Russian hostage-taking. The result is a painful quandary for the Biden administration as…
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London’s Trellick Tower and a Development Debate
LONDON — When Barbara Heksel and her family moved into Trellick Tower in 1981, their friends thought they were crazy. Known for its uncompromising Brutalist design and the crime in its brooding concrete hallways, the London public housing project, built in 1972, had earned the tabloid nickname “Tower of Terror.” But for the Heksels, Trellick…
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Israel-Gaza Fighting Flares for a Second Day
The most violent conflagration in more than a year between Israel and Gaza militants extended into a second day on Saturday, with airstrikes that destroyed residential buildings and killed five more people, according to Palestinian health officials. The Israeli military said it had hit two Gaza residences belonging to operatives of the militant group Islamic…
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Live Updates: Israel and Gaza Militants Exchange Fire in 2nd Day of Flare-up
Inspecting the ruins of a building on Saturday after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.Credit…Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Israeli military and Palestinian militants in Gaza exchanged more fire on Saturday morning, as the biggest conflagration in the strip for a year moved into a second day. Israel targeted what it said were…
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Israel Strikes Gaza as Tensions Rise
Video Israel carried out a number of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with one of the strikes killing a senior figure of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militant group said.CreditCredit…Mohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock TEL AVIV — Israeli airstrikes hit several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a number of people including a senior commander…
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Blasts Reported at Nuclear Plant Seized by Russia
A decoy soldier on a roadside across the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex last week. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials reported blasts there on Friday, blaming one another.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials have been raising alarms for months. The world’s nuclear watchdog agency warned of the…
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Griner’s Sentence Renews Pressure on President Biden
WASHINGTON — Immediately after a Moscow judge handed down Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence on Thursday, calls grew louder for President Biden to find a way to bring her home. “We call on President Biden and the United States government to redouble their efforts to do whatever is necessary and possible,” the Rev. Al Sharpton…
