A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is dealing with internal divisions while being besieged by President Trump and potential replacements.
The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.
As a lawyer, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
When a subway train strikes a person in N.Y.C., the train operator at the controls not only must see and report the incident, but also check for the person under the train.
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“I didn’t want to do it. But this is a part of the job.”
Edwin Guity had to go looking for the person his train had struck. He sought out and received therapy for P.T.S.D.
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For the hundreds of train operators who have found themselves in this position over the years, there is a path to robust treatment. But it is not well known.
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“I couldn’t close my eyes because I kept seeing him.”
Nioka Baptiste signed up for the same six-week therapy program that Mr. Guity did, trying to shake the image of the man’s face. It didn’t work. She eventually had to return to her job.
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The number of all New York City transit employees filing workers’ compensation claims for “mental stress” or “mental disorder” has risen since the pandemic, but less than half of those claims were approved in 2024.
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“It’s in the back of my mind again. Is it going to happen again?”
Thomas Sellers has been an operator for the M.T.A. for the last 23 years and hadn’t hit anyone until last March.
As Gao Zhen awaits trial in China, his wife and child live in limbo, unable to return to America, sustained by the portraits he fashions from scraps of paper.
Huge reductions in foreign aid by the U.S. and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year.
