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Any outdoor space in the city, no matter how small, is a precious thing.“In New York City, if you’re fortunate enough to actually have a terrace or a patio, you’re one of the lucky few,” said Keita Turner, an interior designer based in Manhattan. “Anytime you have something like that, it should be an extension of your home.”In other words, you owe it to yourself to make the most of it — even if it’s tiny, awkwardly shaped or hemmed in by other buildings.“We actually prefer smaller, more intimate spaces,” said Kat Bell, who runs the Los Angeles-based firm Argyle…

Pixar will stop making original shows for Disney+ as part of a broader retrenchment, resulting in layoffs that will reduce its work force by 14 percent.Jim Morris, the president of Pixar, announced the layoffs in an internal memo on Tuesday that was viewed by The New York Times. He cited “the return to our focus on feature films.” About 175 employees will be let go.Questions about Pixar’s health have swirled in Hollywood and among investors since June 2022, when the Disney-owned studio released “Lightyear” to disastrous results. How could Pixar, the gold standard of animation studios for nearly three decades,…

At Mar-a-Lago on a Wednesday evening last month, Donald J. Trump mingled with partygoers, greeting his supporters and making small talk. The country star Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless the U.S.A.,” and the former president’s oldest son, Donald Jr., gave a speech.The elder Mr. Trump was presiding over a cocktail reception for about 150 guests to celebrate the public debut of Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of his social media app, Truth Social. Trump Media’s share price had soared in its first day of trading, adding billions of dollars to Mr. Trump’s wealth.But the party was far…

The StudyThe study looked at 2,322 emergency room visits for cannabis poisoning among people 65 and older in Ontario. The visits spanned 2015 through 2022, allowing researchers to see what happened before and after October 2018, when Canada legalized the sale of dried cannabis, and January 2020, when the sale of edibles was legalized.In 2015, there were 55 emergency room visits caused by cannabis poisoning. That figure rose steadily to 462 by 2021, and then fell off slightly to 404 in 2022.Dr. Stall said he was motivated to undertake the study after being called into the emergency room to consult…

Lawyers for the actress Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, have sued to stop what they say is a fraudulent scheme to sell Graceland, the family’s cherished former home in Memphis.Court papers that Ms. Keough’s lawyers filed this month claim that a company planning to auction off Graceland is fraudulently claiming that her mother — Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023 — had borrowed money and put Graceland up as collateral. The papers say that the company, Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC, “appears to be a false entity” and that the documents it presented about…

Palestinians in Gaza expressed mixed feelings after the chief prosecutor at the world’s top criminal court said he was seeking arrest warrants for leaders of both Israel and Hamas on war crimes charges, a move that many said equated victim with perpetrator.“We deplore, denounce and are surprised by the decision of the International Criminal Court which places the accused, the victim, and the executioner in one cage,” said Zahir Essam, a 55-year-old living in Gaza City.Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced on Monday his decision to apply for arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader…

With his army struggling to fend off fierce Russian advances all across the front, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the United States and Europe to do more to defend his nation, dismissing fears of nuclear escalation and proposing that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.Mr. Zelensky said he had also appealed to senior U.S. officials to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles and other weaponry at military targets inside Russia — a tactic the United States continues to oppose. The inability to do so, he insisted, gave Russia a “huge advantage” in cross-border warfare that it…

An angry Ricky Stenhouse Jr. confronted Kyle Busch and then punched him after Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, sparking controversy A brief fight broke out between the two teams in the garage.Stenhouse made an aggressive move on the first lap of the race and Busch ended up hitting the wall, which caused Busch to intentionally knock Stenhouse down and eliminate him on the second lap. It was an old track with no exit tunnel, so Stenhouse had nothing to do but wait for Busy until the end of the race.Sure enough, Stenhouse was standing next to…

David Dorward was a young boy when he first visited the Floral Clock, a combination of horology and horticulture initially installed in 1903 on a south-facing slope of the West Princes Street Garden in Edinburgh’s New Town area.“I remember when I was a child,” he said, “my mum and dad would bring me down to the gardens because it was a sort of focal point. As a child, you’d come down to see the cuckoo coming out at 12 o’clock.”Now 61, Mr. Dorward has been planting the clock for 42 years. And even though he officially retired two years ago…

The Numbers: Macy’s lags while Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury grow. Macy’s said its comparable-store sales in the United States fell 1.2 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. The retailer has not reported a sales increase since the first quarter of 2022. It reported a first-quarter profit of $62 million, less than half of what it made in the same quarter last year.Sales at the namesake Macy’s brand were the weakest of all of the company’s brands, falling 1.6 percent. Sales at Bloomingdale’s rose 0.8 percent, and Bluemercury’s sales rose 4.3 percent.Macy’s slightly raised the low end of its sales…