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Gazans realized the scale of the devastation of their old neighborhoods and Israelis awaited news on the three newly released hostages as a day-long ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continued Monday.With the war's 15-month lull, Palestinians returned to the parts of the Gaza Strip from which they fled, picking their way through vast areas of rubble and trying to salvage what they could – a sofa, a mattress, a chair or a crate – from the rubble of their old homes.“People can barely recognize the destroyed places where they lived,” said Montaser Bahja, an English teacher, a day after visiting his old neighborhood in the northern city of Jabaliya.In a video shared with The New York Times, Mr. Bahja, 50, can be seen running through the streets with his son Alhassan, 21, and trying to reconci...

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease strikes younger, middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported Thursday.And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans die from some cancers at rates two to three times higher than white Americans.These trends represent a stark shift for a disease that has long been considered a disease of aging, affecting many more men than women.The changes reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a staggering increase in cancer in people born since the 1950s.Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report predicts that there will be approximately 2,041,910 new cases t...

The moment well after midnight, when one day slides into the next, is usually a lonely moment, observed by security guards and nurses, insomniacs and students cramming for exams. But this weekend, at the National Gallery in London, thousands of people were there together. They had come from Friday to Saturday to see some of the last paintings Vincent van Gogh ever made.“There is an intrigue,” said Digenis Koumas, a visitor, reflecting on the artist's appeal. “It's kind of an enigma, his life. The struggles, the battles he had with himself, with his psyche.Koumas, like many other art lovers, had disrupted his circadian rhythms and braved London's unpredictable night-time public transport options to take one last look at "Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers," which had remained open all day. night in...

Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute and heartwarming moments after some 500,000 American users took refuge there last week to protest the US government's impending ban on TikTok.Calling themselves “TikTok refugees,” these users paid the “cat tax” to join RedNote by posting photos and videos of cats. They answered many questions from their new Chinese friends: Is it true that in rural America every family has a large farm, a huge house, at least three children and several large dogs? That Americans have to work two jobs to support themselves? That Americans are terrible at geography and many believe that Africa is one country? That most Americans have two days off every week?The Americans also asked questions of their new friends. “I heard every Chinese person has a giant panda...

The sounds of celebration replaced those of explosions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as a fragile ceasefire took effect after 470 days of war, allowing some hostages to return home to Israel, Palestinians imprisoned in Israel to be released and the displaced people of Gaza search for what remained of their homes. Under the terms of the hard-won deal, fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas militants stopped at 11:15 a.m., raising hopes of a more lasting end to a war that has plunged the Middle East into fear and uncertainty .The first hostages – three women seized when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 – were released shortly after. Early Monday morning, the Israeli Prison Service said it had released 90 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, where they were welcomed by emotional ...

Three years ago, when Bob and Sandy Curtis moved into an upscale continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, NY, they thought they had found the best possible solution for senior care.In exchange for a steep entry fee — about $840,000, financed by the sale of the Long Island home they've owned for nearly 50 years — they would be taken care of for the rest of their lives at Harborside. They selected a contract from several options that set a stable monthly fee at about $6,000 for both of them and that would reimburse half of the entry fee to their estate after their deaths.“This was the final chapter,” Mr. Curtis, 88, said. “That was the deal I made.”CCRCs, or community living plans, provide increasing levels of care on a single campus, from independent and assisted living to n...

Could this be the year, as President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised, that Russia's war with Ukraine will end?The possibility of peace brings “tears to my eyes,” said Valeria, 30, an English teacher from eastern Ukraine.As Trump prepares to return to the White House on Monday, he promises peace in Ukraine but publicly offers no strategy for how to achieve it, other than his stated desire to meet with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. So Ukrainians can only imagine what the next few months will bring.No one, Valeria said, wants peace more than the Ukrainians. But having suffered so many losses, with hundreds of thousands dead and wounded, Ukrainians will not accept peace at any price, he said. She asked that her last name not be used out of fear for the safety of her father, who still...

But I've never added a friend on TikTok, sent a direct message, or thought of myself as a “TikToker.” And I don't think I'm alone. For most people I know, TikTok is not a place to connect with other people. It's a place to waste time, numb yourself, unplug from reality, and float through your feed. That passive, dissociative quality, while great for engagement, has also made TikTok feel more replaceable than other social networks. If it disappears, we will find our solution somewhere else.I am also convinced by the explanation given in The Atlantic by Hana Kiros, according to which TikTok is a victim of its own success. TikTok's popularity, he argues, has led many other social networks to copy its features. Now, users looking to dive into an endless wormhole of short, funny vertical videos...

When Hamas led the October 7, 2023 incursions into Israel, killing around 1,200 people, around 250 people were taken in Gaza as hostages, including citizens of Israel, the United States, Britain, Mexico, Thailand and other countries.Among the prisoners were the bodies of 37 people killed in the attack, Israeli officials said. Now, about 100 hostages, dead and alive, are still held in the enclave, officials say.The ceasefire agreement announced Wednesday between Israel and Hamas will begin with an initial phase lasting six weeks and will result in the release of 33 hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The agreement calls for Hamas to release three female hostages on day one, four more on day 7 and 26 more over the next five weeks, according to a copy of the document obtained by T...

While Kennedy's adoption of salvage farms may be new, the concept dates back nearly a century. In 1935, the government opened the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Ky., to research and treat addiction. Over the years, residents included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who described the institution in his novel "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict"). The program had high relapse rates and was contaminated by pharmacological experiments on human subjects. In 1975, as local treatment centers began to proliferate across the country, the program was shut down.In America, therapeutic communities for addiction treatment became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Some, like Synanon, have become notorious for abusive and cult-like environments. There are now perhaps 3,000 arou...