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I grew up in apartment 10J of a high rise in Morningside Heights, in Manhattan.My maternal grandparents both Japanese immigrants lived one floor below us, in 9J.My sisters and I would regularly sleep over, on a futon rolled out on their living-room floor, and breakfast at my grandmother Kachan's table was always rice and eggs in one of two forms: tamago kake gohan (hot rice beaten with soy sauce and a raw chicken egg until frothy), or warm rice topped with tarako, the salted, cured egg sacs of Alaskan pollock.

8:15 on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945.It's a big reason leaders from the world's most powerful democracies descended on Hiroshima for this weekend's Group of Seven summit: Part commemoration, part effort to confront the continuing consequences of the moment a U.S. B-29 Superfortress released what the Americans named Little Boy over the city in the first wartime use of a nuclear bomb.

Family members of two boys killed in Cardiff while riding an electric bike have said it was an early birthday present to the younger of the victims an occasion he will never get to celebrate.Following a community vigil for Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, in Ely on Friday night, the younger boy's aunt and grandmother said next month should have seen his 16th birthday.

Brown, a 24-year-old transgender Black man, was unarmed.On May 1, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced she would not file charges against Anthony.City leaders and members of the public called for Jenkins to release the store's surveillance footage, which she did on May 15.The six-minute video shows Anthony confronting Brown as he attempts to exit the store.

Aline Küppenheim in "Chile '76." (Kino Lorber)StarOutline (3 stars) A recurring motif swirls through "Chile '76," a modest but absorbing debut by Manuela Martelli.The opening scene sets the stage: A prosperous homemaker named Carmen (Aline Küppenheim) is choosing the right shade of pink for the seaside home she's renovating; while the contractor pours a bit more red into the blue, outside the shop an activist is being arrested, another victim of the repressive regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

As the newest Staten Island ferry grumbled across New York Harbor the other day, you could easily imagine the woman for whom it is named in contemplation by a window.Her dress plain, her white hair in a braided crown, her eyes seeking the divine in the green-gray waters.THE Dorothy Day, for angular woman and massive vessel both.

Toronto's Jewish community is marking the opening of the city's only dedicated Holocaust museum, created to help keep survivor stories alive and educate current and coming generations on the horrors of genocide and antisemitism.Museum executive director Dara Solomon says not only will a trip to the museum help people learn about the struggles Jewish people went through during and after the Second World War, but the "vibrancy of Jewish life" that came before and eventually after it.

On the second anniversary of the truck attack that killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., hundreds of people came to commemorate their lives while carrying on the fight against Islamophobia.A vigil hosted by the Youth Coalition Combating Islamophobia (YCCI) and the City of London was held Tuesday evening at the site of the attack on the Afzaals who are known as Our London Family.

Rishi Sunak would be happy to let a robot look after his grandmother or teach his children, he has confirmed.Ahead of a meeting with Joe Biden, during which the prime minister will pitch a grand plan to place the UK at the heart of Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation, Mr Sunak said advances in technology have improved our lives throughout time and will continue to do so.

Good morning.It's Friday.We'll look at how a Manhattan church is reckoning with the discovery that one of its founding members was an enslaved woman.We'll also find out about a proposed change in the way restaurants dispose of trash.Image The artist Clayton Singleton's depiction of Betsey Jackson, a founding member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.Credit...Clayton Singleton; Photograph by Porter Binks The room where the trustees of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church meet every month, on the fifth floor of the building on West 55th Street adjacent to the sanctuary, has always been called the boardroom.

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As a child raised by a single mother, Somkene Okwuego got her dental work done at a USC clinic that serves patients regardless of financial circumstances.Last week, I met with her in that same building, where the 23-year-old is finishing her first year at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry.

In , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater's questions about, well, how they got their job.Today's installment: Andrew Coté.Andrew Coté was born into beekeeping.His father, grandmother, and great-grandfather were all beekeepers before him.The tradition likely goes back further than that, but at the very least, he is a fourth-generation beekeeper, with over 130 years of history to prove it.

"People call me Pat in the Hat, like Cat in the Hat.Except the guys on the corner.They call me Gabacho Loco.'Crazy white boy.'"And that's just the beginning of the nicknames, said Pat (in a Hat), a fixture of Mission Street between 20th and 21st, who most days can be found sitting on his front steps in his namesake stingy brim fedora, often smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper or in conversation.

"I want to tell this great American epic," says Hayden Anhedönia, who performs as Ethel Cain.(Helen Kirbo)Comment Gift Article Hayden Anhedönia is sitting comfortably in her Pittsburgh home.Meanwhile, Ethel Cain, the musical persona Anhedönia created, is rotting in her lover's stomach, having fallen victim to a case of domestic cannibalism that Cain recounts on her debut studio album, "Preacher's Daughter."

A family has demanded that a Mississippi police officer be fired after shooting an 11-year-old boy who was trying to follow the officer's orders after calling 911 for help, a lawyer for the boy's family said.The officer shot the boy, Aderrien Murry, in the chest, resulting in numerous injuries, including a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs, on May 20, said Carlos Moore, a lawyer representing the Murry family.

When Alyx Carson's father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to California to be with him.Soon after her arrival, they talked about what was ahead: She told him she would like to have his ashes made into a diamond.He began to cry, she recalled recently from her home in Austin.

With her soulful hits and a commanding stage presence, Tina Turner secured her status as the queen of rock n' roll with a catalogue of powerful hits that showcased her boundless energy and gravelly vocals.Across her career, which began in the 1950s, the American-born singer won over hearts with classic songs including River Deep Mountain High, Proud Mary and Nutbush City Limits.

Last month, when Heart on My Sleeve, a track credited to A.I. versions of Drake and the Weeknd, became an unauthorized hit online, many in the music industry loudly fretted about the legal and creative risks to come.But Grimes, the producer and pop singer who has long been enthralled with visions of the future, saw opportunity.

An arrogant killer who provoked a national manhunt after killing a much-loved Sunderland woman has been convicted of murder.Alexander Carr went on the run for 18 days in December last year after stabbing 47-year-old Michelle Hanson to death in her flat.He was eventually found by police in a tent pitched on a railway embankment near Upper Holloway train station in London, hiding with a hunting knife.

A rare desk seal which once belonged to Sir Walter Scott has been sold at an auction for 13,860.The antique from Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders was sold along with around 100 other seals with Scottish connections by Edinburgh-based auction house Lyon & Turnbull.The figure achieved was matched by a late 19th rock crystal and multi-gem set desk seal owned by Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton, which sold for the exact same amount.

A student who went on the run after stabbing a grandmother in the neck has admitted murdering her.Alexander Carr, 33, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court via a videolink from prison to admit murdering Michelle Hanson in late November or early December.The 47-year-old was a much-loved grandmother who was found dead at her home in Brady Street, Sunderland, having suffered suspected stab wounds.

A driver who killed a mother while showing off at speeds of up to 110mph in his Range Rover has been jailed, as police released CCTV footage of the fatal crash.Rida Kazem, 24, was driving beautician Yagmur Ozden, 33, and their friend Zamarod Arif, then aged 26, home from a night out in west London when he lost control.

A driver who killed a beautician when he lost control of his Range Rover while showing off at speeds of up to 110 mph has been jailed for more than seven years.Yagmur Ozden, 33, died of her injuries after she and Rida Kazem, 24, were thrown from the vehicle as it ploughed through a Tesla dealership, ending up on a west London railway track.

Shane Bieber (3-2) was charged with six runs, five earned, on 12 hits in 4 2/3 innings.CHICAGO - Luis Robert Jr. homered for the fourth straight game, Gavin Sheets and Jake Burger went deep off Shane Bieber in Chicago's six-run fifth inning, and the White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 8-3 on Tuesday night.