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How the ‘Other Maine’ Has Helped Shape a Senate Race
The story of northern Maine is the story of rural America: Fewer jobs, a declining population and a deeply ingrained feeling of being forgotten, or looked down upon, by the liberal population centers calling the shots. That sense of alienation helped fuel the rise of President Trump.
Video Pushed Local Police to Come Clean. D.H.S. Is Ignoring the Lessons.
Video Pushed Local Police to Come Clean. D.H.S. Is Ignoring the Lessons. The agency has said little about two fatal encounters in the past week. Local police departments have learned to be forthcoming. A makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo near the site where he was killed in Houston.Credit...Meridith Kohut for The New York Times July 15, 2026, 6:39 p.m. ET The victims were brandishing a gun, “weaponizing” a car or attacking with a shovel.
Video Pushed Local Police to Come Clean. DHS Is Ignoring the Lessons.
The victims were brandishing a gun, "weaponizing" a car or attacking with a shovel. But these explanations, which federal immigration officials gave for shooting people, were swiftly undercut or contradicted by video evidence. Now, local officials and some members of the public are meeting the Department of Homeland Security's accounts of the fatal shootings this month in Houston and Biddeford, Maine, with intense skepticism.
Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to D.U.I.
2 hours ago Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate! If you're a fan of the original trilogy, the prequels, or even some of the spinoff shows like Andor or The Clone Wars, you've got plenty to celebrate. But one group that apparently isn't celebrating this May 4? Sequel trilogy enjoyers, because according to a …
Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to D.U.I. Original
Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to D.U.I. The pop star was arrested in March after officers in California observed her driving erratically. She later checked herself into a treatment facility.
Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to Reckless Driving After DUI Charge
VENTURA, Calif. -- Britney Spears will avoid further jail time after pleading guilty on Monday to reckless driving involving alcohol, drugs or both. A lawyer for Spears, who was initially charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, entered the plea on her behalf during an arraignment in Ventura County Superior Court. As part of the plea deal, she will serve 12 months probation, complete a three-month substance abuse program and pay a fine of $571.
Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to Reckless Driving After DUI Charge
VENTURA, Calif. -- The pop star Britney Spears will avoid further jail time after pleading guilty on Monday to reckless driving involving alcohol, drugs or both. A lawyer for Spears, who was initially charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, entered the plea on her behalf during an arraignment in Ventura County Superior Court. As part of the plea deal, she will serve 12 months probation, complete a three-month substance abuse program and pay a fine of $571.
PFAS Forever Chemicals Present in Some Plastic Recyclable Bottles
Kyla Bennett, an ecologist and attorney in Easton, Massachusetts, subscribes to a school of thought called antispeciesism, which considers the preferential treatment of any animal species over another, humans included, to be unethical. So she’s long railed against the use of chemicals to kill insects, especially over a 26-square-mile stretch of freshwater wetlands and soggy woodlands near her home.
A reporter explores the laws and emotion involved in helping her father die | Nieman Storyboard
By March 2020, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the incurable illness also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, had already ravaged Ron Deprez’s once-strong body with particular cruelty. He needed help with one last thing: to die. It fell to his daughter Esmé to make it happen. Esmé E. Deprez was Ron Deprez’s only daughter.
A Fight to Die
There's a nursery rhyme adapted from a Shel Silverstein poem that Sandy Morris used to sing at Girl Scout camp in California.
Blog: Death With Dignity. How I Helped My Dad Die
I was finishing up breakfast in New York when my dad sent me a text message. He was ready to die, and he needed me to help. The request left me shaken, but that's different than saying it came as a shock. I'd begun to grasp that something was really wrong 10 months before, in May 2019, when he'd come to California from Maine. He was there to meet his first granddaughter, Fern, to whom I'd recently given birth. But he couldn't bend down to pick her up.
How Medela Lost Moms
Dec 09 2020, 3:30 PMDec 10 2020, 3:52 AMDecember 09 2020, 3:30 PMDecember 10 2020, 3:52 AM (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Just after 4 a.m. on May 15, 2019, in a surgical suite on the eighth floor of NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital, physicians delivered via cesarean section a healthy 5-pound, ...
Emily Oster’s Pandemic Parenting Guidance Is All About the Data
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Over the course of a few days in mid-May in Providence, in between homeschooling her 5- and 9-year-olds, grading undergrad research papers, baking bread, revising her fi...
The Nine Types of Voters Who Will Decide the 2020 U.S. Election
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In Lobster-Town U.S.A., There’s No Covid-19 but Plenty of Pain
Blaine Olsen, a lifelong lobsterman, was navigating his 30-foot boat off the coast of Stonington, Maine, when his sternman, who’s also his wife, yelled above the diesel engine’s din about the pittance the local cooperative was paying harvesters. He shot Ginny a doleful stare for a good five seconds. “Holy sh-t, man,” he said. “It costs us $600 a day to go out.” The dock price — $2.25 a pound for soft-shell lobsters — was half what it was a year ago, making it virtually impossible to earn a profit.
Pandemic does a number on Maine's lobster industry
Blaine Olsen, a lifelong lobsterman, was navigating his 30-foot boat off the coast of Stonington, Maine, when his sternman, who’s also his wife, yelled above the diesel engine’s din about the pittance the local cooperative was paying harvesters. He shot Ginny a doleful stare for a good five seconds. “Holy s..., man,” he said. “It costs us $600 a day to go out.” The dock price — $2.25 a pound for soft-shell lobsters — was half what it was a year ago, making it virtually impossible to earn a profit.
County With One Virus Death Reels From Pandemic's Economic Blows
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Maine county with one virus death reels from pandemic's economic blows to the lobster industry
Esmé E Deprez, Bloomberg Published 8:45 am EDT, Thursday, July 2, 2020 Virginia "Ginny" Olsen stuffs pogy fish and pig hide into mesh bags, which she and Blaine use to bait their lobster traps in Penobscot Bay. Virginia "Ginny" Olsen stuffs pogy fish and pig hide into mesh bags, which she and Blaine use to bait their lobster traps in Penobscot Bay.
Mistrust, rumor and conspiracy theories hinder US virus fight
No one has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Alabama, but unfounded social-media rumors run so wild that the state public health department assigned a staffer to stamp them out. In Texas, Houston and Harris County officials have been fighting misinformation since January, after false claims that the virus was circulating in the Asiatown neighborhood.
Mistrust, rumor and conspiracy theories hinder U.S. virus fight
No one has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Alabama, but unfounded social-media rumors run so wild that the state public health department assigned a staffer to stamp them out. In Texas, Houston and Harris County officials have been fighting misinformation since January, after false claims that the virus was circulating in the Asiatown neighborhood.
Mistrust, rumor and conspiracy fantasies hinder U.S. virus fight
No one has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Alabama, but unfounded social-media rumors run so wild that the state public health department assigned a staffer to stamp them out. In Texas, Houston and Harris County officials have been fighting misinformation since January, after false claims that the virus was circulating in the Asiatown neighborhood.
Mistrust, Rumor and Conspiracy Fantasies Hinder U.S. Virus Fight
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What’s New and Old in New Supreme Court Abortion Case
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Guns in America - The Washington Post
Each new mass shooting in the U.S. reignites debate over the country’s treatment of gun rights as virtually sacrosanct. Americans own more guns than anybody else on Earth, even adjusted for population. (Yemenis are second.) Firearms are involved in the deaths of nearly 40,000 people annually in the U.S., 60% of which are suicides. Guns are also integral to the story of the nation’s founding.
When Shelters Are Full, Sleeping Outside Can Be the Only Option
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America’s Biggest Problems Are Intensified in California
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- More nation-state than U.S. state, California is a land of superlatives: the most populous, the most prosperous, home to the most companies in the S&P 500, the fifth-lar...
America’s Biggest Problems Are Intensified in California
Composite of two photos showing an area of Magalia, Calif., hit by the 2018 Camp Fire and the land after nearly a year later.
Guns in America - The Washington Post
BloombergQuickTake Analysis Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events AR-15 rifles are displayed on the exhibit floor during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, May 20, 2016.
Guns In America
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It’s Tough Being The First Birth Control App
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Late one evening last February, Raoul Scherwitzl posted a tweet that, even in this age of oversharing, might have seemed a little too personal: He and his wife, Elina Be...
Birth Control App Natural Cycles Is More Effective Than the Pill
Late one evening last February, Raoul Scherwitzl posted a tweet that, even in this age of oversharing, might have seemed a little too personal: He and his wife, Elina Berglund, would stop trying to avoid pregnancy and begin trying to have a baby.
What Happened When I Bought A Home With Sunrun Solar Panels
PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON HENRY FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Third-party ownership and decades-long contracts can create real headaches.
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It was just after 10 p.m. on an overcast September night in Los Angeles, and L. was tired from a long day of class prep, teaching, and grading papers. So the 57-year-old anthropology professor fed her Chihuahua-dachshund mix a freeze-dried chicken strip, swapped her cigarette trousers for stretchy black yoga pants, and began to unfold a set of white sheets and a beige cotton blanket to make up her bed.
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse In America’s Richest Cities
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It was just after 10 p.m. on an overcast September night in Los Angeles, and L. was tired from a long day of class prep, teaching, and grading papers. So the 57-year-old anthropology professor fed her Chihuahua-dachshund mix a freeze-dried chicken strip, swapped her cigarette trousers for stretchy black yoga pants, and began to unfold a set of white sheets and a beige cotton blanket to make up her bed.
Refugees and Asylum
The United Nations has declared asylum to be an inalienable human right, and most countries offer it. The principle is that nations should safeguard people who face persecution or danger when their own countries can’t or won’t protect them. There have long been debates over who deserves sanctuary, but today the discord goes deeper. In the wake of violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan and parts of Africa and Central America, the number of people seeking asylum has risen to record levels.
Refugees and Asylum
The number of total refugees has steadily increased since 2012, to 19.9 million by mid-2018, fueling antipathy toward outsiders in some host countries. Of the 1.9 million new applicants for refugee status in 2017, the U.S. had the largest number — 332,000, with 43 percent coming from Central America, where gang violence has become widespread. U.S. President Donald Trump has coupled his bid to clamp down on immigration with an effort to fundamentally reshape the nation’s asylum system.
Refugees and Asylum
The United Nations has declared asylum to be an inalienable human right, and most countries offer it. The principle is that nations should safeguard people who face persecution or danger when their own countries can’t or won’t protect them.
The Logistical Nightmare of Sending 57,000 Immigrant Kids Home
In recent weeks, President Obama and congressional Republicans have begun to offer the same simple-sounding solution for dealing with the flood of children crossing the U.S. border alone: Send the kids home.
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