Author: NY TIMES

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza, saying that Hamas should agree to the six-week pause currently on the table and that Israel should increase the flow of aid into the besieged enclave amid a humanitarian crisis.Ms. Harris’s remarks, delivered in Selma, Ala., bolstered a recent push by the Biden administration for an agreement and came a day before she was to meet with a top Israeli cabinet official involved in war planning, potentially increasing tension after President Biden called Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack “over the top.”But Ms. Harris’ tone…

“It took a long time for her to walk again,” said Ms. Nordblad’s sister, Elina Manninen, a professional photographer who has documented Ms. Nordblad’s diving career. “The nerve pain was really bad but the cold water helped with the pain and still does.”Ms. Nordblad, who lives in Helsinki on the island of Lauttasaari, tested the watches by diving multiple times under the ice, symbolized in both models by blue Super-LumiNova accents on the dials, hands and bezels. She also advised the label on how it might better optimize crowns, clasps and bezels for diving.The first model, the Goutte d’Eau Nordblad,…

“Dune: Part Two” and its A-list cast jump-started moviegoing in North America after a dismal start to the year.The science-fiction sequel sold an estimated $81.5 million in tickets in the United States and Canada from Thursday night to Sunday, the biggest opening for a Hollywood film since “Barbie” in July. (Taylor Swift’s concert documentary arrived to $93 million in October.) “Dune: Part Two,” directed by Denis Villeneuve, collected an additional $97 million overseas. IMAX screenings were especially strong.Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. spent $190 million to produce “Dune: Part Two,” not including a megawatt marketing campaign that found Zendaya, Timothée…

The wacky, low-budget quest “Outlaw Posse” by the writer-director Mario Van Peebles is not a direct sequel to his innovative Black western “Posse,” from 1993. It’s a companion piece, built in the same universe, that is equally indebted to the history of Black cowboys and the need for restorative justice in America.As Chief, an outlaw hiding in Mexico, the playful Van Peebles wears a dark-colored cowboy outfit similar to the one he sported in “Posse,” and mirroring what his father, Melvin Van Peebles, wore in his 1971 Blaxploitation flick “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.” That film was the first father-son pairing…

The referee’s decision was, by the standards of these things, pretty straightforward. Soccer in general and the Premier League in particular have a gift for spinning controversy from whole cloth, but this did not seem an especially compelling candidate for the hot-take treatment. The evidence was too clean, too clear-cut.Early in the Premier League game between Sheffield United and Brighton last month, the Sheffield United defender Mason Holgate went careering into Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton’s dazzling winger. The referee, Stuart Attwell, showed Holgate a yellow card. A moment later, Attwell was advised by his video assistant, Michael Oliver, to take another…

El Día de Acción de Gracias pasado estaba sentado a la cabeza de la mesa del comedor con mi familia alrededor mientras disfrutábamos nuestro banquete tradicional: pavo, papas, salsa de arándano, salsa de carne y una mezcla de puré de camote con minimalvaviscos que de cariño llamamos “engrudo”.Mis hijos, de 18 y 20 años, formaron una montaña de comida en sus platos. Mi madre se sirvió porciones más pequeñas y una copa de vino. Y yo sostuve la mano de mi amada, que estaba sentada a mi lado con lágrimas en los ojos mientras veía al otro extremo de la…

In a blow to government efforts to combat money laundering, a federal court has ruled that the Treasury Department cannot require some small businesses to report personal details about their owners.Under a section of a 2020 law that took effect Jan. 1, small businesses must share details about their so-called beneficial owners, individuals who hold financial stakes in a company or have significant power over their business decisions. The law, the Corporate Transparency Act, passed with bipartisan support in Congress and was intended to help the Treasury Department’s financial-crimes division identify money launderers who hide behind shell corporations.But in a…

Like many of her characters, Winslet considers herself a survivor: She survived two public divorces, and she survived the paparazzi, packs of men who chased her in cars or staked out her house. (When she was a new mother, she would put on a hat and sunglasses, hand her baby over a wall to the next-door neighbor, climb over the wall herself, then take the baby through the backyard gate and get on a city bus, where, she swears, no one ever recognized her.) It’s clear that some of the strength Winslet projects — her nothing-stops-me attitude on set —…

Gaza’s deadly leadership vacuumLast week, more than 100 people were killed in northern Gaza, health officials there said, after thousands of Gazans rushed at aid trucks. The crush on Thursday led to a stampede and prompted Israeli soldiers to fire at the crowd.The immediate causes were extreme hunger and desperation: The U.N. has warned that famine is looming in northern Gaza, where roughly 300,000 civilians are still stranded and aid deliveries are rare — and can be fraught. But there is a deeper problem: Even though fighting has ebbed in the north, Israel has been reluctant to fill the current…

There often is a subtle difference between the way men and women collect things.Many men tend to take a systematic approach, choosing pieces that mesh with the rest of their possessions, be they stamps, cars or watches. A woman, however, may have a hundred pairs of shoes, but whether or not they amount to a collection may be debatable.Serious collectors, male and female, are motivated by connoisseurship and an instinct for resale value, which may be the only established metric for judging a collection.There are other factors, of course, including taste, impulse, budget and opportunity (waiting lists are a reality)…