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A line of severe thunderstorms was expected to sweep across parts of the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley on Wednesday, raising the risk of tornadoes, flash floods and damaging winds, meteorologists said. The unsettling forecast comes a day after tornadoes ripped through Texas, injuring nearly two dozen people. More than…

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Cuba Gooding Jr., the actor who had been accused by more than 20 women of groping or forcibly kissing them in encounters that dated back more than two decades, will plead guilty to one count of forcible touching, a Manhattan prosecutor said in court on Wednesday. Mr. Gooding had faced…

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The scene in Brooklyn on Tuesday after a man shot 10 people aboard a train.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times The shooting left at least 23 people injured, including 10 who were hit by gunfire. Several of the victims were initially listed as critically injured, but none of the…

MANILA — Rescue workers battled intermittent heavy rain to reach many people still missing Wednesday, three days after Tropical Storm Megi pummeled the country, causing widespread landslides and flooding in the central Philippines. Hardest hit was the city of Baybay in central Leyte Province, where landslides buried a remote community,…

Chief Justice Roberts voted with Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan in dissenting from six previous shadow docket rulings. But the Clean Water Act dispute was the first time he joined in the procedural criticism that the other conservatives were not just using the shadow docket but abusing it. In that…

Where the gay rights movement emphasized biological realities (“born this way,” etc.) and bourgeois aspirations (to monogamy and marriage), today’s gender-identity advocates promote “wild claims” about the social-constructedness of sex differences and dismiss any contravening evidence as “violence.” This risks backlash, it endangers all the accommodations to transgender rights that…

As a multidisciplinary artist who explores Black and queer identity, LaQuann Dawson, 27, often takes self-portraits from his home and studio in Brooklyn wearing women’s lingerie. But he found that the bodysuits and bottoms didn’t fit well. “Either it would be very small or I would find something that would…

There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh the downsides. She disliked how the platform portrayed itself as a haven for independent writers with fewer resources while offering six-figure advances to several prominent white men. The hands-off content moderation policy,…