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Earlier this spring, I took the bus to the Moscone Center, in downtown San Francisco, where almost thirty thousand people had gathered for the annual Game Developers Conference (G.D.C.), which I was attending as a journalist.I had spent the previous few months out on maternity leave, and I was glad to return to work, to have meetings, to temporarily exit the domestic sphere.

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.

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Dodger Stadium has rarely looked more empty.Dodger Stadium has rarely felt more full.An hour before the Dodgers hosted the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, in the strangest of sights, there were no players in the dugout, no players on the field, and barely a couple of hundred fans in the stands.

Sign up for this free live-streamed event, Thursday, June 22, 1 p.m. Eastern.Christian Cooper and Amy Tan came to birding from very different paths.Cooper had found refuge in birding as a child, long before the Central Park incident that brought him to national attention.For Tan, birding was a more recent discovery, prompted by a need for an outlet away from political events.

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time.They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game.As social animals, however, those same scientists do much of their work togetherbrainstorming hypotheses, puzzling over problems and fine-tuning experimental designs.

Red Sox COMMENTARYThese sorts of weekends are the ones that get the conversation flowing.When Red Sox manager Alex Cora yanked Kiké Hernández from the starting shortstop slot earlier in the week, he offered the sort of disorganized quote befitting a team still trying to prove itself something more than mediocre.

Shohei Ohtani is so good for baseball that he is pretty much carrying the Los Angeles Angels to something better than Heaven: The MLB postseason!I am flapping my got dam arms like I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Shohei Ohtani's Los Angeles Angels to win the pennant, baby!Like the guy that clearly inspired Rick Sanchez from Ricky and Morty, we're always watching.

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Four years ago, Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was facing questions about the votes he had cast at City Hall - and whether they could financially benefit his spouse.The Times had found that Price had repeatedly voted on matters that affected firms listed as clients of Del Richardson & Associates, the consulting firm owned by his wife.

Matt Zinchuk was worried.In three decades, his mom rarely missed a piano lesson.And yet, on that Monday evening in May, with students waiting at the family's Champaign home, Amy Zinchuk and her husband Michael were nowhere to be found.He called his sister, Elizabeth, in suburban St. Louis."Hey, did mom and dad leave yet?"
Elizabeth started to panic.

Good morning.We'll meet the Lorax of Brooklyn, who says trees in New York lessen the effects of climate change.Also, early voting for the June 27 primaries begins on Saturday, with ranked-choice voting.Image Credit...Michael Stewart, via the Brooklyn Botanic Garden The Lorax of Brooklyn Adrian Benepe, the president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden led the way to a Dawn Redwood, a 92-foot-tall sequoia.

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women's basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships on ESPN's spectrum of channels.The arrangement has worked well for both parties: The N.C.A.A. ensured that its top athletes would perform on a national stage, and ESPN added hundreds of hours of live programming to a college sports portfolio that is anchored by college football and men's basketball games.

Standing in the back parking lot of Station 4, a sprawling LGBTQ dance club in Dallas, I realize this is the first time I've been here while the sun is still out, despite countless visits starting in my late teens.At 8:45 p.m., tucked behind the club, the parking lot is full but weirdly quiet, though I can still hear the bustling throng of people on the Strip, a section of Cedar Springs Road in the city's Oak Lawn neighborhood that's served as the heart of Dallas's LGBTQ nightlife scene for more than four decades.

The 2023 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its winners list.The top honors went to "Cypher" for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, "A Strange Path" for Best International Narrative Feature, and "Between the Rains" for Best Documentary Feature.The competition categories include Feature Film, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersive, Games, Human/Nature, and Tribeca X.
"We take great pride in recognizing this year's collection of diverse, trailblazing works and creators," said Cara Cusumano, fest director and vice president of programming, said in a statement.

Ayo Walker Typically, one hears the term "carceral" used in discussions of prisons and jails.One significant aim of the prison abolition movement is to critique and eliminate carceral forms of state punishment that encage, degrade and dehumanize human beings while stripping them of agency.

The Palm Springs Post, a hyperlocal digital-first news outlet in California, began as a daily email newsletter Mark Talkington would grind out in the evenings, squeezed in on top of his longtime day job as an editor for Microsoft.Since founding the newsletter in 2021, Talkington has made the Post a full-fledged news organization valued by the community - enough so that he was able to hire two additional reporters.

When it comes to generative artificial intelligence, should your organization opt for public or proprietary AI? First, you need to consider the main differences between these options.Public AI can have a wide knowledge base and fulfill a lot of tasks.However, public AI may feed that data back into a model's training data, which can cause security vulnerabilities to emerge.

Last November the spring weather in South America jumped from cold to searing.Usually at that time of year people would have been holding backyard barbecues, or asados, in the lingering evening light.But on December 7 the temperature in northern Argentina, near the borders of Bolivia and Paraguay, hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest places on Earth.

Written on a dry-erase board in Jennifer Siebel Newsom's office overlooking the dome of the California Capitol are two phrases: "gender equity" and "support for survivors."As a feminist and documentary filmmaker, Siebel Newsom has been on a mission to tell women's stories and upend the gender imbalance that permeates life in America.

Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular.She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn.The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit.The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted, told her in a disdainful tone that she should have a home for the child lined up because drug users never leave the hospital with their babies.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 15, 1:43 p.m. Washington June 15, 6:43 a.m.Members of the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade at a mortar position in the area of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, firing on Russian positions in May.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times BRUSSELS Defense ministers of NATO countries are discussing long-term support for Ukraine and new preparations for the alliance's collective defense at a two-day meeting in Brussels starting on Thursday, as Kyiv's allies closely monitor the opening phase of Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces.

Swedish ultrarunner Ida Nilsson has been a household name in ultra-trail running since her tour de force season of 2016, which saw her win the Transvulcania Ultramarathon, the Mont-Blanc Marathon, the Run the Rut 50k, and The North Face 50 Mile Championships - to name but a few.A lifelong athlete, at that point in her career she had already won two NCAA Division I titles in American collegiate athletics, competed in the European Athletics Championships and the World Athletics Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and competed at ski mountaineering.

In an ideal setting in which there were unlimited resources, no external threats, no time constraints and a consistent carrying out of the ideal in a system of laws, the nation could sit back and let the trials of the ex-president play out.The spectacle of the arraignment of Donald Trump on Wednesday, which involved hundreds of city, state and federal law enforcement officials, not to mention the commercial and educational disruption projected over the span of a complete trial that could take weeks, begs the question if such a fiscal and emotional expenditure is really worth the effort.

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The Boston Celtics may have fallen short of their championship expectations, but don't expect a major shakeup.ESPN's Brian Windhorst said the Celtics' priority this offseason is re-signing Jaylen Brown to a contract extension and the team has no plans on trading him-even if it means acquiring Bradley Beal.

When Ella time traveled in my office for the first time, I did not realize what was happening right away.She was sitting comfortably in a chair, her hands folded, her back straight and her feet flat on the floor.There was no dramatic change, no shuddering or twitching.But then I saw it: a slight shift in how she held her body.

Andrew Tate is a despicable character.Most grown-ups understand this without much thought.After all, the proudly misogynistic social media influencer was charged with human trafficking and rape in Romania, a nation the U.S. State Department considers " a primary source country for sex trafficking."

Further applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS are on the horizon in a bid to free up doctors' time and provide better support to patients.Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said patients are already benefiting from advancements in technology.In stroke care, AI is already in use in more than four out of five stroke networks, helping clinicians to reduce the time to deliver effective treatment by an hour, tripling the number of stroke patients recovering with no or only slight disability from one in six, to just under half.

HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR on Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world's top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you.Cynthia Carroll was only a few months into leading the global mining firm when she suspended operations in their South African platinum mine.