1 tourist dead and 1 injured after ice canyon collapses in Iceland
Rescuers in Iceland on Monday called off the search of a deadly ice canyon collapse after they determined that, contrary to initial reports, there were no other tourists trapped beneath the debris, police said.
Heat kills thousands in the U.S. every year. Why are the deaths so hard to track?
After a string of scorching days in June 2023, the body of an 88-year-old man was discovered in his home in Maricopa County, Arizona. His air-conditioner, set to 70, was blowing hot air. The temperature inside was nearly 110 degrees. Maybe he had heart problems. Maybe a different organ broke down. Maybe he was taking medications that did not work as they should. Did extreme heat cause or contribute to his death?
On immigration, Harris and Democrats walk a delicate — and harder — line
CHICAGO — When Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination last week at her party’s convention in Chicago, she sought to strike a delicate balance on the issue of immigration, promising to approach enforcement and security at the nation’s southern border as the prosecutor she once was, without abandoning the country’s values.
Hurricane Hone brings heavy rain but no major damage
Hurricane Hone passed within 60 miles of Hawaii Island early Sunday, bringing heavy rain, knocking out power to thousands of customers and snapping native ohia trees like twigs.
These young women didn’t want to vote for Biden. They’re all in on Harris.
Constance Lancelle, 22, of Milwaukee, was “definitely not interested in voting for Biden,” she said. But with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate, she said, “I feel like politics have been a dream.”
Trump’s carefully scripted week kept veering off script
Donald Trump’s political endurance this year has been attributed in part to voters’ faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago.
NASA extends Boeing Starliner astronauts’ space station stay to 2025
Two astronauts who have spent months aboard the International Space Station will have to stay there months longer after NASA decided Saturday they could not return on Boeing’s troubled Starliner space vehicle. They will return instead on a SpaceX capsule next year.
All eyes on TS Hone: A sense of alertness without panic as the storm rolls in
Debbie Arita, an office manager at a supermarket in Hilo, took stock of the conditions. Tropical Storm Hone was approaching the region, but the scene Friday was far from chaotic — no frantic rush for supplies, no desperate boarding up of windows.
Paralympics will drop ban on Olympic rings tattoos
For years, Paralympians with tattoos of the Olympic rings were playing a dangerous game: They had to cover the tattoos completely in competition, or face penalties from the International Paralympic Committee, which included disqualification.
At the ballpark, a reporter roots for Lahaina
Recently, my colleagues and I at The New York Times were finishing up a package of articles tied to the anniversary of the devastating wildfire that wiped away the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, on Maui. We had pieces on how the town’s rich history was shaping discussions about rebuilding; the thousands of people who have left the island, forming a vast diaspora of Lahaina refugees; and the lessons learned by authorities as they tried to prevent another deadly fire.
Israel presses for Gaza border presence as part of cease-fire deal
JERUSALEM — Mediators plan to move ahead with a summit next week pursuing a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said Friday, after Israeli security chiefs sought to obtain Egyptian consent for a postwar Israeli presence along Gaza’s border with Egypt.
Harris faces challenge of translating convention joy to fall momentum
CHICAGO — Joy cometh in the morning, but so do hangovers. The party in Chicago is done, the confetti has been swept up, the pictures have been posted to social media. But the real question as exuberant Democrats woke up Friday was whether they could channel the sheer intoxication of the United Center into a sustained, 74-day sprint to Election Day.
Fed Chair Powell signals ‘time has come’ for September rate cut
JACKSON, Wyo. — Speaking in his most closely watched speech of the year, Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, clearly signaled Friday that the central bank was poised to cut interest rates in September.
16 Republican-led states challenge program to aid spouses in the US illegally
Texas and 15 other Republican-led states sued the Biden administration Friday seeking to halt a new program that could give legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens but who also are in the country illegally.
5 Secret Service agents involved in Trump rally are reassigned
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has assigned five agents to administrative duties as a result of its investigation into the failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The war in Gaza is making thousands of orphans
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — The boys are aching to see their parents again. They are convinced it will happen as soon as they can go back to Gaza City, where they were growing up before the war bulldozed that life.
Free booze, a lake cruise and selfies galore: How Democrats courted influencers at theDNC
CHICAGO — Last month, Kristin Brey, a podcaster, radio host and newspaper columnist, attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee as a credentialed journalist. She set up shop in a dank hockey arena, jostled in scrums with reporters for interviews and often could not get access to the floor of the convention hall because there was not enough space.
She survived the Maui wildfires. She couldn’t survive the year after
LAHAINA, Maui — As a whirlwind of flames nearly encircled the Lahaina Gateway shopping center on Aug. 8, 2023, Edralina Diezon hid in a storage room, surrounded by mops, buckets and brooms. Terrified, Diezon, who worked 80 hours a week as a janitor, did not leave for two days and two nights. When she finally emerged, starving and disoriented, the neighborhood where she lived was gone.
Hard work and fizzy drinks: What it takes to live past 110
One of the oldest men in the world died in August at the age of 111. The man, John Farringdon, was born about a year after the Titanic sank.
Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani remade himself as a base stealer, and now 40-40 is a possibility
On a sleepy morning at the Oakland Coliseum in early August, MLB’s biggest marvel was in study hall. Shohei Ohtani was tucked into a corner of the visiting clubhouse, sitting alongside his interpreter, Will Ireton, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first-base coach, Clayton McCullough. Ohtani, the team’s two-way star, has swapped hitting and pitching for hitting and running this season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, and he was coming off the first three-steal game of his career.
