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JOHANNESBURG — Days of heavy rain on the eastern coast of South Africa left at least 45 people dead when rivers burst their banks and mudslides swept through the city of Durban and the surrounding area. The death toll is expected to rise as members of the South African National…

Yelp announced on Tuesday that it would cover expenses for its employees and their spouses who must travel out of state for abortion care, becoming the latest company to respond to a Texas law that bans the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy. The online search and review platform,…

Months after Britney Spears was released from the conservatorship that she said was restricting her from having a third child, the pop star announced Monday in an Instagram post that she is pregnant. In explosive testimony last year, Ms. Spears called the conservatorship that had governed her life for 13…

A Times survey that year found that 54 percent of white New Yorkers said the civil rights movement was going too fast. The argument went that Black enfranchisement caused white resentment. It was a Catch-22, since white resentment was the reason the civil rights movement was necessary. Polls and surveys…

Several people were shot at the 36th Street subway station during the Tuesday morning rush, officials said.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times At least 16 people were injured, 10 of them by gunfire, in the subway in Brooklyn during the Tuesday morning rush, officials said, after a man released…

Previous attribution studies have quantified the effects of climate change on individual Atlantic storms: For instance, researchers estimated that up to 38 percent of the extreme rainfall that Hurricane Harvey dumped on southeastern Texas in August 2017 was attributable to climate change. Dr. Reed was among the researchers who confirmed…

Mr. Benjamin said recently that he had been cooperating with investigators, who had issued subpoenas in recent weeks to the State Senate in Albany and people who had advised his comptroller campaign. The lieutenant governor, accompanied by his lawyers, met with prosecutors last week, according to a person familiar with…

Gun violence hit historic lows in 2018 and 2019. Even with recent increases, rates of shootings, felony assaults and overall major crimes are similar to or below the levels of the late 2000s and early 2010s. There have been nine fewer murders this year compared with the same period last…

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Philadelphia’s new indoor mask mandate will begin next week.Credit…Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times With new coronavirus cases low but rising sharply in recent days, the city of Philadelphia announced on Monday that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate a little more than a month after lifting it,…