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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,…

Francisca Acuna of Austin, Texas, was succinct at another meeting: “Don’t build where it floods. Stop recycling flooded properties. Disclose flood risks. Protect or restore ecologies that reduce flooding.” She added, “Make flood insurance fair,” noting that her annual premium had jumped to $1,893 from $450. Opinion Conversation The climate,…

JOHANNESBURG — The death toll from several days of punishing rain that drenched the city of Durban and the surrounding areas near South Africa’s east coast rose to more than 250 on Wednesday as the nation’s president visited the area to take stock of the devastation. Although the rain in…

When the groundbreaking pianist Chick Corea died unexpectedly, at 79, in February 2021, he left a legacy of experimentation, preserving and expanding the jazz tradition. Over more than a half-century, he deftly navigated the music’s continually shifting boundaries. Corea started his career playing with the Afro-Cuban percussionist Willie Bobo and…

In a first for the tech giant, Google filed a consumer protection lawsuit to shield the vulnerable and unsuspecting from what it called a “nefarious” scheme: the sale of adorable, but imaginary, puppies. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Nche Noel Ntse,…