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Just a few hours before sunset in mid-March, World Central Kitchen workers scrambled to put the final touches on a makeshift jetty built out of rubble, as the ship carrying the first aid to reach the Gaza Strip by sea in nearly two decades backed toward the shore.The crew from the disaster relief nonprofit still had to cover the jetty’s sharp edges and poking rebar, reminders that the rubble used to build the structure in northern Gaza came from bombed buildings. Using square pieces of debris, they created a vertical concrete wall to meet the ship.“Running any sort of construction…

As Russians grieved Monday for victims of the bloody assault on a concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 137 people, President Vladimir V. Putin was scheduled to meet with government officials to discuss the tragedy, the worst such attack in the capital in two decades.The government appears to be stepping up efforts to pin the blame on Ukraine. On Sunday, hours after a district court arraigned four men suspected of carrying out the Friday night attack, the main evening news shows on Russia’s main television channels featured reports suggesting that Ukraine was responsible.The main message was that Western…

“John Galliano, High & Low,” the feature-length documentary about the former Dior designer’s fall from grace after a drunken antisemitic rant in a Paris bar in 2011, and his long climb back, is interesting for a number of reasons. It is a chance to hear from Mr. Galliano himself about his struggles, for one, and to look back at the fashion world of the 1990s. But just as striking is the number of think pieces it has spawned meditating on Mr. Galliano’s transgressions, repentance and, it seems, current state of forgiveness.Indeed, the film’s greatest significance may have less to do…

In the predawn hours in Singapore this month, Ms. Cox and I discussed the matter by Zoom with the state comptroller’s office while waiting for her small children to stir and put an end to the proceedings. At one point, Ms. Cox thought to ask about the missing $45,000 — that leftover amount from the 2014 statement. How much of her money did the state have now?“It’s $115,000,” was the reply.Turns out that the state tracks how investments perform, and you get all of that growth when you show up to claim your property. Those old Eaton Vance mutual funds…

Ms. Jabbari met Mr. Majors on the set of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in London. She lived with him, first there and later in New York, but their relationship quickly deteriorated and he routinely screamed at her and threatened self-harm when she tried to leave or disclose the extent of his misconduct, the lawsuit said.In September 2022, in London, according to the lawsuit, he threw her against the hood of her car, placed her “in a headlock and put his hand over her mouth to prevent someone from hearing her cries for help.” Back in their house, the suit…

From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Iceland’s skies each night. On Icelandair ads, planes fly across shimmering curtains in the sky. On social media, travelers gaze at the green bands above them. The lights are even on some recycling bins in Reykjavík, the capital: “Keep Iceland Clean.”In the past decade or so, an aurora borealis industrial complex has boomed in Iceland. Many rent a car and go out on their own, but there are northern lights big bus tours and northern lights minibus tours and northern lights Super Jeep tours. There are private guides…

Why do women still clutch tiny purses at fancy parties? Don’t they want to drink, dance and wave hello without having to keep a grip on a container that’s often fragile and handle-free? What about shoulder or cross-body bags, reticules pinned to the waist, or a gown or a tux with practical pockets? There must be a better solution. — Maryrica, Charlotte, N.C.There’s an essential contradiction at the heart of the small-evening-purse question that speaks to our long and fraught history with the accessory.On the one hand, the evening purse is in many ways a vestigial tail of fashion: an…

President Biden, amping up a populist pitch in his re-election campaign, has repeatedly said he would raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to make them pay their “fair share.”Republicans say Mr. Biden has “an unquenchable thirst for taxing the American people.” His Republican opponent in the election, former President Donald J. Trump, said recently that Mr. Biden was “going to give you the greatest, biggest, ugliest tax hike in the history of our country.”So it might come as a surprise that, in just over three years in office, Mr. Biden has cut taxes overall.The math is straightforward. An analysis…

The real source of Dawn’s terror, though, is not familial or theocratic but erotic. Though the song she sings with her hunky boyfriend (Jason Gotay) is a sweet midtempo number called “Modest Is Hottest,” their sublimated lust is barely sub. And when even her gay bestie (Jared Loftin) turns out to have the hots for her, where’s a girl to turn?If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll recall how Dawn discovers she’s the hostess with the mostest — and also who first falls victim to her outraged dentata.Still, you won’t be prepared for the full-on gore-fest the musical becomes. Joined by…

Photographs by Nariman El-MoftyText by Nariman El-Mofty and Alan YuhasNariman El-Mofty spent eight days with a group of Gazan children and their caretakers and joined them on an Italian military flight from Cairo to Rome, then to Pisa, Italy. She traveled with two families in ambulances to a hospital in Bologna, Italy, where the children are receiving treatment.Each of the children survived horrors. Each lost relatives in the strikes that injured them. All have struggled with the emotions of what they went through and what they face ahead.The evacuees make up only a tiny fraction of the thousands of civilians,…