March 15, 2022

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) — Police are searching for the woman who shoved a beloved grandmother to the ground sending her to the hospital. Barbara Maier Gustern is 87-years-old and is an active performer and voice coach in the city. Gustern was wrapping up rehearsal Thursday night in Chelsea when a woman approached her from behind …

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When perhaps the most celebrated shipwreck in Mensun Bound’s long career as a marine archaeologist was discovered, he was off viewing some penguins a mile away. It was the afternoon of March 5. Mr. Bound was traveling aboard an icebreaker in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica with the Endurance22 expedition, which was hunting for the …

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The gender pay gap stubbornly persists. What needs to be done in order to close it? It is no secret that the gender pay gap is a legacy of structures and systems that have denigrated and devalued the work that women have historically done. It therefore stands to reason that it would have to be …

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Now, the fossil fuel industry is ascendant. More mainstream Democrats are using the language of Republicans, talking about an “all of the above” energy strategy that includes renewable fuels and oil and gas. Natural gas is again spoken of as a “bridge” fuel to clean energy, not an enemy of the planet. “Some of my …

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Inside Ukraine, journalists are facing more direct — and potentially lethal — risks. Brent Renaud, an American documentary filmmaker, was fatally shot in the head on Sunday in a suburb of Kyiv. On Monday, a Fox News correspondent, Benjamin Hall, was hospitalized after he was injured outside Kyiv. Days earlier, Ms. Ward described via telephone …

Russian Censorship Law Forces Reporters to Weigh Safety Read More »

President Biden will attend an extraordinary NATO summit meeting in Brussels on March 24 and will also attend the European Union’s summit meeting the same day, White House and European officials said on Tuesday. President Biden will travel to Brussels next week to attend the high-stakes gathering to discuss ongoing deterrence and defense efforts in …

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Two bystanders who happened to be mixed martial arts fighters took down a man who fired a gun inside a RA Sushi in Houston, Texas, Monday night. Officers responded to a panic alarm at the restaurant around 11 p.m., FOX 26 Houston reports. Authorities also received additional calls about a shooting in progress. Two MMA …

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In a call from his car on Sunday, a photographer from Moscow explained why he was driving to Tbilisi, Georgia, having left his apartment and essentially his whole life behind. For one, he has no work. No one he knows is shooting fashion look books or organizing the parties he usually photographs. The Western publications …

Russian Artists Lose the Tools of Their Trades as Companies Pull Out Read More »

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian police stormed her house and dragged her husband away. Her eldest son died in a rain of Syrian government shells on her hometown. So like millions of other Syrians, Hanadi Hafisi fled the country with plans to return when the war ended. A decade later, she’s still a refugee in …

Impunity for Syria War Crimes Casts Shadow Over Ukraine Read More »

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the soaring melody of Ukraine’s national anthem has been heard worldwide, from antiwar protests in Moscow to the stages of major concert halls, from N.B.A. basketball arenas to TikTok posts. Known by its opening line, “Ukraine’s glory has not perished,” the anthem is being heard daily in Ukraine too, played by …

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