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 | From the Editor's Desk Scientists have drastically improved our understanding of seismic events. Here are eight things to know. |
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| Work You Can Still Smoke in Atlantic City Casinos. Workers Want to Ban It.  The issue has long been contentious in New Jersey. In 2022, when legislation to prohibit smoking inside casinos was considered, the organization representing casinos opposed it. It argued that such a ban would be bad for business, at a time when they were contending with the lingering effects of the pandemic as well as the prospect of new competition from casinos in or around New York City. |
| Work What the World Central Kitchen Deaths Reveal  When the Israeli military fired three missiles on a humanitarian convoy run by the leading international charity World Central Kitchen—killing seven aid workers of whom most were foreign nationals—it elicited a horrified global response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described the attack on the convoy as unintentional, lamented the loss of innocent life as a “tragic case,” adding: “This happens in wartime.” |
| Work McDonald's will buy all 225 restaurants from Israel franchise following pro-Palestinian boycott fallout  McDonald's signed a deal to purchase all 225 of the restaurants that comprise its Israel franchise, the American fast-food chain announced, following months of dramatically lower sales due to pro-Palestinian boycott action amid the Israel-Hamas war. |
| Work I grew up in Italy and have studied longevity for 35 years—this is the No. 1 way to eat for a long, healthy life  Valter Longo has been studying longevity in Italy for nearly 20 years, but having grown up in regions like Molochio, Calabria, he would say he's been interested in how to live longer basically all of his life. |
| Work Why fear of AI making a job obsolete is the wrong way to think about a career future  The ongoing rise of artificial intelligence in business is causing a lot of distress on both sides of the labor market. Recent surveys show that AI spending is going to increase at a majority of firms, but workers may be better off worrying about upskilling for jobs to match AI advances rather than fearing AI will cause their jobs to vanish. |
| Work 'The memories are too much': Sderot residents return six months after Hamas attack  Downtown Sderot, an impoverished Israeli town just a kilometre away from the north-eastern corner of the Gaza Strip, is still quiet six months after 7 October. There is no longer any trace of the police station where Hamas militants took hostages and engaged the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a two-day battle before the Israelis decided to blow up the building. The site has been levelled and is now home to flags and a memorial. |
| Work Why has the '15-minute city' taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK?  The "15-minute city" has become a toxic phrase in the UK, so controversial that the city of Oxford has stopped using it and the transport minister has spread discredited conspiracy theories about the urban planning scheme. |
| Work Excitement builds in North Texas, plans in place for total solar eclipse  A solar eclipse will occur over North Texas for several hours on April 8, 2024. The partial eclipse will begin at 12:23 p.m. and end at 3:02 p.m. Totality will last only minutes, from about 1:40 p.m. until 1:44 p.m., depending on location. The event is truly a rare occasion. Another total solar eclipse won\'t occur over the United States until 2044 and the National Weather Service says there won\'t be another in our region until 2317. |
| Work Trump's $50 million gala set to double Biden's triple-president fundraiser  Last week, Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton appeared at what Democrats have billed as a uniquely profitable fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Like Trump, Biden was raising both for his campaign and for allied entities that will spend on his behalf. The Democratic event pulled in $26 million. |
| Work Keller teen hospitalized, hit by suspected drunk driver while jogging  Thursday at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Grapevine, Nina remains in critical condition. Alvarez said she\'s undergone surgery for two fractured femurs and a broken knee. Next week, doctors will repair her pelvis. There\'s also a brain bleed. |
| Work Washington scores 32 points, hits tiebreaking basket as Doncic sits, Mavs top Warriors  With the triple-double potential of Doncic missing, Irving had eight rebounds and seven assists as Dallas won for the 13th time in 15 games and improved to 4-3 when the eight-time All-Star plays while his superstar backcourt mate is out. Dallas is 4-6 without Doncic. |
| Work Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy  A day earlier, tensions between the two countries escalated after Mexico\'s president made statements that Ecuador considered “very unfortunate” about the last elections in which the Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa won. |
| Work Caitlin Clark and Iowa hold off UConn to head to 2nd straight national championship game  “We got some good looks. They just didn’t go in. And sometimes that’s just what happens,” Clark said. “We missed some easy bunnies around the rim. But I think the best thing about our group is we went into the locker room at halftime and it wasn’t, like, oh, come on, you’ve got to make shots. It was, no, stop turning the ball over and you’re going to be perfectly fine.” |
| Work García and Semien hit 3-run homers, Rangers beat Astros 10-2 in 1st meeting since ALCS  J.P. France (0-0, 4.76 ERA) will pitch for Houston on Saturday, a day after being reinstated from the paternity list for the birth of his daughter. Jon Gray (0-0, 9.82) starts for the Rangers. |
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| Work Mikko Rantanen leaves game against Oilers after suffering injury in second period  Rantanen went straight to the locker room after a hit from Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm just shy of four minutes into the second. He was trying to exit the defensive zone and Ekholm surprised him along the boards. |
| Work Man arrested after smash-and-grab heist at Grossmont Center jewelry store in La Mesa  Moments later, Officer Bill Wilson spotted the suspect driving the car on the west side of the shopping center, on Center Drive headed toward Jackson Drive, authorities said. Police headed to the area and stopped the suspected car on Fletcher Parkway, roughly a mile west of the mall. They arrested the 31-year-old driver. |
| Work ‘This needs to stay.' Patrons concerned over closure of 99 Cents Only Stores  Families whose budgets have been stretched thin by inflation describe dollar stores as a lifeline. Those most impacted by the impending closure said the bargain retailer’s shutdown will truly be a loss. |
| Work Long Beach parents concerned over suspected prostitution near elementary school  Long Beach Unified told NBC4 in a statement that officials “haven’t been made aware of any specific issues related to this matter…” and added that the “LBUSD School Safety conducts safe passage patrols at every campus.” |
| Work Long Beach residents worry for their safety after neighbor repeatedly breaks their windows  Those who have lived in the complex the longest told NBC4 that the man has owned his place for two decades, but the violent episodes started within the last year. They said he often lays on the floor and curses at them in Spanish. |
| Work Deputy who killed mother in front of child also body-slammed school janitor, lawsuit says  Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison. |
| Work CHP officer fatally shoots man at Cerritos mall; gunfire prompted shoppers to flee  Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. A graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California, he joined The Times in 2013. |
| Work Will There Be Another Earthquake? Here’s the Forecast for Aftershocks.  That is reflected in the geological survey’s aftershock forecast, which currently says that there is less than a 1 percent chance that Friday’s quake will be followed by a magnitude-6 quake or larger. Even the chance of a comparable earthquake of magnitude 5 is only 3 percent over the next week and 8 percent over the next year. |
| Work How Zach Cherry, Actor From ‘Severance,’ Spends His Sundays  A SUMMONS FROM NARNIA I have the Bedtime function on my iPhone set to wake me up at 7 a.m., but almost every day I click “change for one day only” and move it later. I actually wake up around 9 a.m. I use the generic “Early Riser” tone — I’ve never changed it — which starts soft then gets gradually louder. It sounds like something you’d wake up to very gently in Narnia. |
| Work Arrests Expose Rift Between N.Y.P.D. and ‘Violence Interrupters’  At the time, the two, Mark Johnson and his supervisor, Dequann Stanley, were wearing clothing that identified them as outreach workers. Still, a swarm of officers dragged them to the ground, according to video of the arrests reviewed by The Times, with some punching and kicking Mr. Stanley. |
| Work The Orchid Show After Dark, Where Green Thumbs and Plant Killers Mingle  “Florals in Fashion” is the theme for this year’s extraordinary display, which is part horticultural spectacle and part fashion show, and runs until April 21. In addition to orchids from around the world, there are elaborate ensembles that three fashion designers created using plant life. |
| Work New York City Set to Pay a Record $28 Million to Settle Rikers Island Suit  For the past four years, Mr. Feliciano has received round-the-clock care, first at the Bellevue Hospital Center and then at a rehabilitation facility where he must use a walker to get around, said his grandmother, Madeline Feliciano, 57. He cannot eat without assistance, has short-term memory loss and struggles to remember visits with family and friends or the things he did the day before, she said. |
| Work N.Y.P.D. Officials Deploy Aggressive Use of Force (on Social Media)  The latest and most extended example of the aggressive posture has centered on a series of attacks against Mr. Siegel, whose piece criticizing department leaders for crime on the subway ran the same day as the funeral of Jonathan Diller, a police officer killed in the line of duty. |
| Work Earthquake Rattles Northeast, but Little Damage Is Reported  Dr. Brendan Furlong, an equine veterinarian whose practice is nearby, said he was about to start a procedure on a horse under sedation in a concrete barn in Lebanon Township when the barn started to rattle, items fell off shelves and the building started to squeak. The horse was jolted awake from the sedation, Dr. Furlong said. |
| Work A new fund that allows investment in private tech firms like SpaceX and OpenAI has seen its market value surge as much as 818% in 2 weeks  While the closed-end fund offers every-day investors access to private companies that would have been difficult to invest in, it comes at a steep price, with the Destiny Tech100 fund charging an annual management fee of 2.5%. |
| Work Intel's Stock Price Just Plunged. Is Now the Time to Invest?  Jeremy Bowman has positions in Broadcom. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50 calls on Intel, long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work 4 Glorious Growth Stocks You'll Regret Not Buying in the New Nasdaq Bull Market  Sean Williams has positions in Intel and PayPal. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Intuit, Nvidia, Okta, PayPal, and Starbucks. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50 calls on Intel, long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, short March 2024 $67.50 calls on PayPal, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work History Says the Nasdaq Will Soar This Year: My Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stocks to Buy Before It Does  John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool\'s board of directors. Adria Cimino has positions in Amazon. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50 calls on Intel, long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work 1 Artificial Intelligence Stock That Could Make You a Millionaire  James Brumley has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50 calls on Intel, long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Biden allies in Senate pile on pressure to halt Israel aid over conduct of Gaza war  Biden and his administration have generally stood in steadfast support of Israel, which has struck Gaza on land and by air after the 7 October attack by Hamas killed 1,100 Israelis and also took hostages. But with the death toll in Gaza climbing above 30,000 and the humanitarian crisis worsening, the US – which provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in security assistance annually – recently abstained from a United Nations vote which resulted in a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |
| Work London vigil marks sixth anniversary of Windrush scandal being exposed  A spokesperson said: “The government is committed to righting the wrongs of the Windrush scandal and making sure those affected receive the compensation they rightly deserve. We continue to make improvements so people receive the maximum award as quickly as possible, while providing extensive support to help people access and apply to the compensation scheme.” |
| Work Teachers in England and Wales report vermin and pests in schools  A Department for Education spokesperson said schools and sixth form colleges will benefit from £1.8bn this financial year to help maintain buildings, taking the total amount of funding to over £17bn since 2015. |
| Work UK families to benefit by up to £3,000 from changes to child benefit tax  In terms of investments not in an Isa or pension, the dividend tax allowance has been cut from £1,000 to £500. That is down from £5,000 when it was introduced in 2016, said Sarah Coles, the head of personal finance at the investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown. "Investors face capital gains tax misery, too," she said. This is paid on profits on investments outside Isas or pensions. The annual allowance has been cut from £6,000 to £3,000, "pushing it to its lowest level since the 1980s," she said. |
| Work UK car insurance cost up by third but just 2% in France  Admiral said that UK car insurance premiums are higher in the UK than other EU countries because of unlimited liability. “Injury claims across the countries are different and subject to different drivers of inflation and Italy, Spain and France saw different degrees of inflation compared with the UK and have different structures,” it said. |
| Work Storm Kathleen to bring 70mph winds and UK's hottest day of the year  "There will still be some showers around, but there should be some sunshine between those showers," Glaisyer said. "It is generally remaining unsettled through much of next week. |
| Work Enhanced right to ask for flexible working comes into force  Joeli Brearley, the chief executive of the group, said: “Mothers are more likely to shoulder the lion’s share of the unpaid labour required to care for children and manage a household. As a result, they are more likely to need flexible working. Just three in 10 job adverts offer flexibility, limiting the progression opportunities and earning potential of mothers. |
| Work 'The memories are too much': Sderot residents return six months after Hamas attack Cassie, a 19-year-old student from Manchester, said her last visit to Israel was two years ago. "I think it's not so much that Israel has changed since 7 October, but everyone else," she said. "Getting to know people at uni has been difficult. They may not know I'm Jewish, but I see their opinions on social media. The way people see Israel has changed." |
| Work Banning arms sales to Israel would be 'insane', says Boris Johnson  Guardian Newsroom: Crisis in the Middle EastOn Tuesday 30 April, 7-8.15pm GMT, join Devika Bhat, Peter Beaumont, Emma Graham-Harrison and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad as they discuss the fast-developing crisis in the Middle East. Book tickets here or at theguardian.live |
| Work Middle East crisis live: Iran says 'enemy' will 'regret' strike on Damascus; US on high alert for attacks from Tehran  The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said he sincerely hoped Israel quickly and effectively boosted aid access to the Gaza Strip, describing the situation in the Palestinian territory after six months of war as "absolutely desperate". He was "deeply troubled" by reports that the Israeli military has been using artificial intelligence to help identify bombing targets in Gaza. |
| Work Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian drone attack on Kharkiv kills six  Japan has announced new sanctions against Russia, banning exports of 164 goods to Russia including automobile engine oil and optical equipment. The trade ministry is also expected to ban imports of Russian nonindustrial diamonds. |
| Work 'Deadly failure': Australia demands Israel take 'appropriate action' against those responsible for killing aid workers  "People have been raising concerns for some time about ⦠what is occurring in relation to humanitarian workers. This has been a deadly failure of deconfliction," Wong told reporters on Saturday, referring to the process by which aid agencies engage with defence forces to ensure they are protected in conflict zones. |
| Work Mohamed came to Australia as a teenager. Now, he faces being deported to a country he doesn't know  Grace said: "I feel like I'm dying now - Australia [wants to] return my son to a country he doesn't know. All my relatives have been killed in the civil war, everybody died." |
| Work Make-up of Tasmanian parliament finally settled as 'anti-politician' independent takes last seat  "I am confident we now have a parliament comprised of members who are committed to providing the stability and certainty that Tasmania needs and who will put the best interests of Tasmanians first," Rockliff said in a statement. |
| Work Taiwan earthquake: over 600 people remain stranded days after disaster  Taiwan’s relatively low number of deaths from such a powerful earthquake has been attributed to strict construction standards and widespread public education campaigns on the earthquake-prone island. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck in 1999 killed 2,400 people. |
| Work Peru's embattled president dismisses 'Rolexgate' investigation as a 'smoke-screen'  Boluarte's late response to the allegations, which emerged in mid-March, may do little to allay scepticism. The scandal began when La Encerrona, a popular Peruvian news podcast, analysed 10,000 images from the presidential Flickr account, revealing what appeared to be an undisclosed collection of luxury watches and jewellery. |
| Work Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy  A day earlier, tensions between the two countries escalated after López Obrador made statements that Ecuador considered “very unfortunate” about the last elections, which the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, won. |
| Work More than 150 rescued from floods in eastern Australia  Sydney received 111 mm (4.4 inches) of rainfall over the 24 hours to Friday morning, data from the nation\'s weather forecaster showed, just shy of mean rainfall of 121.5 mm for the month of April. |
| Work ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech Is Defended by Jewish Film Artists  “We stand with all those calling for a permanent cease-fire, including the safe return of all hostages and the immediate delivery of aid into Gaza, and an end to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of and siege on Gaza,” the letter says. |
| Work Justice Department Says It Will Reopen Inquiry Into Realtor Trade Group  Home sellers in Missouri, whose lawsuit against N.A.R. and several brokerages was followed by multiple copycat claims, successfully argued that the group’s rule that a seller’s agent must make an offer of commission to a buyer’s agent had forced them to pay inflated fees. |
| Work Challenged by Uprising, Myanmar Junta Cracks Down Harder  The junta has said that it will start clearing out prisons, releasing thousands of detainees. But any such freedom is likely to be temporary: Rights groups point out that last year, the junta made similar “amnesties,” but soon went on to rearrest many of those released. |
| Work Mexico Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Ecuador After Arrest at Embassy  Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, declared the breaking of diplomatic relations with Ecuador in a statement, saying that Mexican diplomatic personnel had suffered injuries in the episode. |
| Work Why Time Is Running Out Across the Maldives’ Lovely Little Islands  As Maldivians give up on island life, the government feels compelled to keep building up Malé, the country’s one real city. But Malé is already pressed up hard against the limits of human habitation. By some measures, it is the most densely populated island on earth, with over a third of the country’s 520,000 people on a landmass that can be crossed by foot in about 20 minutes. |
| Work From the Horror to the Envy of Africa: Rwanda’s Ruler Holds Tight Grip  For decades, Western leaders have looked past Mr. Kagame’s abuses. Some have expressed guilt for their failure to halt the genocide, when Hutu extremists massacred people mostly from Mr. Kagame’s Tutsi ethnic group. Rwanda’s tragic history makes it an “immensely special case,” Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, once said. |
| Work Gazans Describe Search for Food and Wonder If It Will Get Worse  Under pressure from President Biden, Israel has agreed to open more routes for aid convoys, but it remains unclear when that might happen. Aid agencies and multiple nations say they are working on supplying more food through the two southern border crossings that have been in use, but some Gazans doubt it will be enough to meet the enormous need, with many families now getting little or nothing. |
| Work Israel and U.S. Are on Alert for Iran to Strike Back at Israel  The Israeli airstrike hit a building that was part of the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, killing three generals and four other officers of the Quds Force. The force, an arm of the Revolutionary Guards, conducts military and intelligence operations outside Iran, often working closely with allies that oppose Israel and the United States, including Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas. |
| Work Teen Drug Use Habits Are Changing, For The Good. With Caveats.  Dr. Nora Volkow has devoted her career to studying use of drugs and alcohol. She has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2003. She sat down with The New York Times to discuss changing patterns and the reasons behind shifting drug-use trends. |