"Others are reluctant to part with their belongings, as well as their community; they say that encampments provide them with both physical & emotional security, especially as a record number of homeless people die on America’s streets" Reporting Livia Albeck-Ripka nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/…

At the Wood Street Commons, a small group of former residents recently gathered to figure out how to reassemble their fragmented world. Some had shelter, others were still making do on the streets. All longed to maintain their community. nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/…

Severe Weather Begins Hitting Eastern U.S. nytimes.com/live/2023/08/0…

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Spoke to several evacuees who said the wildfire on Maui came so fast they barely had time to grab their belongings. Nor did they receive alerts or evacuation orders. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Orlando Mayorquin nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/…

NEW: Survivors of the deadly Maui fire are telling The New York Times that flames reached their homes in Lahaina long before they got evacuation orders — if they got them at all. Reported with Livia Albeck-Ripka Orlando Mayorquin Jill Cowan Gaya Gupta Michael Levenson (no paywall): nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/…

Claire Kent she said she had received no alerts or evacuation orders — save for a shirtless man on a bicycle screaming: “You have to get out!” nytimes.com/live/2023/08/1…

“Back then, San Diego was just a tiny little town,” Christopher Landsea, a forecaster with the National Hurricane Center, said of another 1858 storm. “If that same hurricane were to hit today, then the damage could be catastrophic.” nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/…

“It was funny seeing that presidential debate,” Anthony said. “I wrote that song about those people.” nytimes.com/2023/08/25/art…

“It’s just putting some numbers and letters and pretty much whatever you want,” Mr. McIntyre said by phone. “Instead of putting seven employees I put 47. That’s my crime. That’s the beginning of the crime. And that’s the end of the crime.” nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/…

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Conservationists cite visitors who get too close to the sea lions to take selfies, to touch and pet them or even to climb on top of the larger ones. Other visitors have tried to handle week-old pups, while their mothers are out at sea gathering fish. nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/…

The terrible ordeal of Iranian American artist Hamid Rahmanian. Hundreds of shadow puppets for his spectacular Shahnameh play were stolen. When the police found the truck, the art was all in shambles. Hamid Rahmanian by Livia Albeck-Ripka nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/…

A California book club began reading “Finnegans Wake” by James Joyce in 1995. This fall, it finally finished the novel. Now, it's starting it all over again. nyti.ms/3t5CskQ

Inside a fishbowl, the goldfish — a species of carp native to East Asia, bred for aesthetic delight and believed to bring good fortune — is hardly more than home décor. But released into the wild, it can grow to monstrous proportions. nytimes.com/2023/12/08/sci…

A six-foot-long skull found in southern England appeared to be from a pliosaur, an ancient ocean predator known as the largest carnivorous reptile to ever live. The fossil with no bones missing, is the “discovery of a lifetime,” one expert said. nyti.ms/3NoxZAR

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“I had ashes of someone’s child, and they didn’t even know that their loved one was dead,” his cousin, Latasha Rosales, told me. “That’s what really saddens me about the situation." nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/…