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The release on Monday of the director of Gaza’s largest hospital, who was held in Israeli detention for more than seven months without charges, was welcomed by Palestinian and rights groups but set off an uproar across the Israeli political spectrum and exposed growing tensions among officials in the government.Mohammad Abu Salmiya directed Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, an early focus of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. He was taken into custody in late November while traveling with a U.N. convoy of ambulances evacuating patients from the hospital to southern Gaza, and was stopped at an Israeli checkpoint, according to the Gaza…

Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse who was convicted last year of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the English hospital where she worked, was found guilty on Tuesday of the attempted murder of another premature baby.A jury had initially failed to reach a verdict in the case of the child, known as Baby K to protect her identity, and Ms. Letby was retried over the last four weeks in a court in Manchester in the north of England. She will be sentenced on Friday and is already serving a life term for the earlier convictions.Ms. Letby,…

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Nadie está a salvo. Ni en una cafetería, ni en un tren, ni en un avión.Sin querer y sin tu consentimiento, en cualquier momento puedes convertirte en el protagonista del día en las redes sociales, y no de uno de los buenos.Este fue el caso de dos personas esta semana, cuando una mujer publicó varios videos en TikTok de un hombre y una mujer en un vuelo de Houston a Nueva York, afirmando que tenían una aventura y llamándolos por sus nombres. (Los videos han sido borrados desde entonces).Según ella, el hombre llevaba un…

Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, is. And probably none are more prolific in broadcasting their political views on social media.But as Mr. Musk’s public persona has become increasingly right wing, Tesla appears to be paying a price in sales, especially to liberal and left-leaning customers who are much more likely to buy battery-powered cars than conservatives are, according to analysts and many car owners who responded to a questionnaire on The New York Times’s website about whether his behavior affected their views of Tesla.His image…

Ella Fitzgerald’s glasses. Benny Goodman’s clarinet. A ticket from opening night in 1891. These items have long been a part of Carnegie Hall’s archive. But now they are getting a moment to shine on the new podcast “If This Hall Could Talk.”In eight episodes, the podcast — produced by Carnegie and the classical radio station WQXR — explores “the legendary and sometimes quirky history of the hall,” according to the show’s introduction. The Broadway performer Jessica Vosk is the host of the series, and archivists from the hall offer commentary.“Time moves so quickly,” said Gino Francesconi, Carnegie’s founding archivist, who…

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, one of the few European leaders who maintains warm relations with Moscow and has called on Ukraine to capitulate to Russia’s demands to end the bloodshed, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday for his first wartime visit to the nation.Mr. Orban’s spokesman said he would discuss “possibilities for achieving peace” with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. But in an initial statement after the two men met in Kyiv, Mr. Zelensky made no explicit mention of that. He said they had discussed “trade, cross-border cooperation, infrastructure, and energy” — along with “the humanitarian sphere.”A vocal critic…

Political reality is setting inPresident Biden’s campaign just announced that it raised $127 million in June, the best month yet for this cycle. It’s the latest effort by the president’s camp to allay Democratic fears about his ability to win, following last week’s debate debacle.But donors remain wary, even after a call with top Biden campaign aides on Monday that was meant to shore up their support. That leaves Democrats in a state of protracted anxiety, as a Supreme Court ruling heightened their fears about a second Trump administration.“Everyone just needs to breathe through the nose for a minute,” Chris…

There are some actors who always, no matter the size of their role or the context of their performance, draw the eye. Andrew Scott, who has most recently appeared as the slippery, scheming protagonist in the Netflix series “Ripley,” is one of them. He is enthralling to watch, his emotional notes meticulously constructed, with playful touches of chaos that always leave space for moments of discovery and surprise. Here are a few of Scott’s favorite modes of performance, and how his popular roles reflect an actor excelling at his craft.The MadmanIn Scott’s breakout role, in “Sherlock,” he plays Moriarty, the…

Israeli forces struck southern Gaza overnight, targeting areas of Khan Younis from which rockets had been launched at Israel a day earlier, the military said on Tuesday.The strikes came after the Israeli military ordered new evacuations of eastern Khan Younis and the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Such orders are usually an indication that the military plans a ground assault, but the military did not say on Tuesday whether it would send troops into Khan Younis, an area its forces invaded earlier in the war but had vacated.An evacuation announcement posted late Monday on social media by the Israeli military’s…

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Steven Kurutz has a penchant for telling unusual stories. It’s something he attributes, in large part, to where he was raised: Renovo, a remote town in Pennsylvania with a population of about 1,000.Growing up in such a tight-knit, isolated community, he developed a kinship with the overlooked and underestimated. He wanted to write the kinds of articles that weren’t traditionally found on the front pages of newspapers and tell the stories of those who lived in “pass-through” places — or those…