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Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in Manhattan. She was 79.Her son and only immediate survivor, Ron Ridinger, said the apparent cause was complications of pneumonia.Inspired at 13 by a candid photograph of a street scene taken by Robert Frank, she asked her mother for a camera but was told to wait…

In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played on Mr. Harrison’s triple album “All Things Must Pass” (1970), for example, and Mr. Molland and Mr. Evans backed John Lennon on some tracks of his watershed 1971 album, “Imagine.”Badfinger eventually signed with Warner Bros., although their affairs had turned nearly as nasty as the Beatles’. The band became entangled by fierce battles over money with their manager, Stan Polley, who was embroiled in a messy legal tangle with Warners. At one point, the…

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed on Sunday for calm and for unity as he moved to reassure the nation after days of clashes that a monitoring group said had killed hundreds of people.“We must preserve national unity and civil peace,” he said from a mosque in Damascus, according to video that circulated online. “We call on Syrians to be reassured because the country has the fundamentals for survival.”The violence erupted last week between fighters affiliated with Syria’s new government, headed by Mr. al-Shara, and those loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. Scores of civilians have been killed, according…

When the Minnesota boys’ high school state hockey tournament wraps up each year, John King retreats to his basement in White Bear Lake, Minn., so he can pore through footage of mullets, bleached mops and caterpillarlike mustaches.The resulting video montage — his “All Hockey Hair Team” — was released on Sunday, taking its annual place as a cultural touchstone in Minnesota and beyond. Without a whiff of irony, it pays tribute to the “lettuce,” “ramen” and all-around “flow” that players show off during their introductions, helping the tournament become a phenomenon on social media and beyond.A self-described “archaeologist of hockey…

The quantity and quality of the 2025 NHL trade deadline is compensated. After all, we don’t often play as long as Mikko Rantanen Saga, which spins a few twists deep in the center of Texas. The Panthers’ amazing acquisition of Brad Marchand is one of the greatest buzzers in deadline history.More in-depthNHL Trade Deadline: Grading each transaction completes this trade seasonNow that the dust has been resolved – fully knowing that the real winners and losers will not know until mid-June – let’s see who enjoyed the biggest improvement by the deadline, who seized the biggest opportunity, who fell in…

The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the room in her first-floor apartment, flattening herself as the rat-a-tat of gunshots sounded outside her bedroom window.When the commotion grew louder, she said, she crept to the window and peeled back the curtain. Outside, dozens of people were fleeing down the road, many in their pajamas, as four men in forest green uniforms chased them. Then, the uniformed men opened fire. Within seconds, four of the fleeing…

For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet.Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office, and President Trump has endorsed his vision of sending humans to Mars.But so far, it has not been a great year for the rocket company. The vehicle that is central to the Mars goal, SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, has launched twice this year, and twice, it has blown up.The latest explosion occurred on Thursday during the eighth test flight of Starship, less than two months after the seventh test flight also…

Tesla charging stations were set ablaze near Boston on Monday. Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon after midnight on Thursday. Arrests were made at a nonviolent protest at a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.The electric car company Tesla increasingly found itself in police blotters across the country this week, more than seven weeks after President Trump’s second inauguration swept Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, into the administration as a senior adviser to the president.Mr. Musk, 53, is drawing increasing backlash for his sweeping cuts to federal agencies, a result of the newly formed cost-cutting initiative…

Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, N.Y., in Rockland County. She was 96.Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where Ms. Gussow, a professor emeritus, had taught for more than half a century.Ms. Gussow was one of the first in her field to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers’ health. Her book “The Feeding Web: Issues in…

Gwen McCrae, whose gospel-infused R&B hits of the early 1970s like “Lead Me On” and “Rockin’ Chair” featured bouncing, dance-floor-friendly grooves that helped open the door to disco, died on Feb. 21 in Miami. She was 81.Her former husband and frequent singing partner, George McCrae, said she died in a care facility from complications of a stroke she had in 2012.Though she had her share of nationwide hits, Ms. McCrae was best known on the music scene in the Miami area, where her upbeat R&B fit perfectly with the hot nights and subtropical vibe.She released most of her best-known songs…