Vinod Kumar was away from home on Tuesday, as he usually is for days at a time in search of masonry work, when he got the dreadful call.
All of the women in his family, three generations of them, were dead, crushed in a stampede.
For the rest of the day, Kumar and his three sons went from hospital to hospital, searching for their loved ones among the bodies of the 121 people who had died when a large gathering of a spiritual guru broke into panic.
“I want to do their last rites together,” Kumar said during the search.
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Fast-moving flames engulfed several homes and vehicles in Northern California as 26,000 people evacuated their homes this week, according to a local official, fleeing a wildfire that burned through a region scarred by previous blazes.
The official, Mayor David Pittman of Oroville, said emergency shelters in the region had filled up by Wednesday afternoon as the fire continued to spread. It had burned more than 3,000 acres by early Wednesday, officials said.
California’s firefighting agency, Cal Fire, said that the wildfire began on Tuesday morning, and that its cause was under investigation. It was not clear how many structures had been damaged by the blaze, called the Thompson fire. No fatalities had been reported as of Wednesday morning. Tap the link in our bio to read more.
President Biden is “absolutely not” considering withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said during a briefing on Wednesday.
The press secretary’s statement comes as his team has scrambled to contain the fallout from last week’s presidential debate and after The New York Times reported that Biden told an ally that his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job.
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Some people worry that sunscreen robs you of the benefits of sunshine, like vitamin D. But it’s also the best weapon against skin cancer, which can be deadly, experts say. So how often should you really be putting it on? Read what dermatologists say at the link in bio. Photo by @lauren_pisano
Donald Trump’s lead in the 2024 presidential race has widened after President Biden’s debate performance last week, a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College showed. Overall, 74% of voters view Biden as too old for the job, an uptick since the debate.
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Before New York City’s congestion pricing plan was halted by Gov. Kathy Hochul, it was designed to rein in some of the nation’s worst traffic while raising a billion dollars for the subway every year, one toll at a time. But a year’s worth of tolls is hard to picture. What about a day’s worth? What about an hour’s?
To understand how the plan could have worked, we sent 27 people to the edges of the tolling zone during the first rush hour that the fees would have kicked in. In total, we counted 22,252 cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about the plan and how it came to this point. Video by Noah Throop/The New York Times, animation by Ruru Kuo/The New York Times
How Blast Waves Affect Troops’ Brains
A growing number of scientists suggest that troops are getting brain injuries from firing heavy weapons. An old party trick involving a beer bottle explains the physics of what happens when a blast wave hits the brain, and the damage it can cause.
Tap the link in our bio to read about the damage caused by repeated blast exposure in Navy SEALs. Video by Dave Philipps, Rebecca Suner, Ruru Kuo, Emily Rhyne, Gabriel Blanco and Noah Throop/The New York Times
Breaking News: President Biden told a key ally his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job. The conversation is the first public indication that Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover after the debate.
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After a recent weekend in the woods, a small group of guys — many of them former prisoners — hoped to leave healed.
They seemingly had little in common.. Among them was a wealth manager from Connecticut; a teenager from the Bronx who is trying to stay out of a gang; a painter from brownstone Brooklyn; a Haitian immigrant living in Queens; and a community worker from St. Louis. They were Black, white and Asian, gay, bisexual and straight, middle-aged and young. Some had served time, while others had hardly ever gotten so much as a traffic ticket.
They had only a dim sense of what awaited them: three days of camping and talking about their lives. But they hoped that somehow they would emerge as better, more fulfilled men.
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Gazans who had already been forced to flee again and again were once more hauling their belongings out of eastern Khan Younis after the Israeli military’s new evacuation orders in southern Gaza. Tap the link in our bio for more.
The Supreme Court’s decision to grant presidents immunity from prosecution over official actions is an extraordinary expansion of executive power. Charlie Savage, a reporter for The New York Times, analyzes the ruling by the court’s conservative majority, its long-term implications, and the three liberal justices’ vehement dissent.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about how the opinion is an escalation of presidential power. Video by Nikolay Nikolov, Karen Hanley, Charlie Savage and James Surdam/The New York Times
In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating debate performance, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.
Biden, 81, like many people his age, has long experienced instances in which he mangled a sentence, forgot a name or mixed up a few facts even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time. But people in the room with him recently said that the lapses seemed to be growing more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome.
Tap the link in bio to read more on the interviews with current and former White House aides, political advisers and others who saw Biden in the last few weeks. In most cases, they spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter. Photos by @al_drago , @erinschaff and @haiyunjiang
