December 4, 2023
Days after the catastrophic flood in northeastern Libya killed thousands of people, the city of Derna remains largely cut off from the outside world. The New York Times reached residents by phone who described dire conditions and sent videos capturing the toll of the destruction.
READ MORELawyers for the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes said this week that she would be unable to afford to pay $250 each month to victims of her failed blood-testing start-up, Theranos, after leaving prison. Ms. Holmes, 39, began an 11-year, three-month prison sentence in Texas in May after she was found guilty last year of four
READ MORESearch crews and volunteers waded via muddy rivers and rubble from destroyed properties on the lookout for dozens of individuals believed to be lacking.
READ MOREWith out insurance coverage, there’s little likelihood of recovering cash for a kid when a landlord has few sources. Property house owners who do have substantial holdings have discovered methods to legally distance themselves from downside leases, more and more utilizing L.L.C.s to cover belongings and identities. In 2019, for instance, a Virginia household that
READ MOREWASHINGTON — No less than six main teams of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults have struck a tentative deal to divide about $3.5 billion in Afghan central financial institution property they’re making an attempt to grab to repay authorized claims towards the Taliban, in response to a letter filed on Tuesday to a
READ MOREWhereas state and native governments will divide up billions from the Sacklers and Purdue for remedy and prevention packages, if the present draft — or some approximation — of the Purdue chapter and settlement plan have been adopted, particular person victims will get far much less. They’ll apply for compensation from a fund of as
READ MOREWASHINGTON — President Biden referred to as on Tuesday for the broad growth of well being advantages for veterans, significantly those that fell sick after inhaling poisonous supplies from burning waste within the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, publicity that he believes contributed to the most cancers that killed his elder son, Beau. For Mr. Biden,
READ MORECHISINAU, Moldova — At a synagogue in central Chisinau on Monday, an Israeli social employee, Omer Hod, had a flash of historic vertigo. Ms. Hod’s ancestors had lived in Chisinau greater than a century in the past, surviving a devastating pogrom in 1903 earlier than emigrating to what grew to become Israel. Now their descendant
READ MOREGreater than a dozen households of individuals killed in two Boeing 737 Max crashes are accusing the Justice Division of illegally leaving them at the hours of darkness when it reached a settlement with the company this yr. In a court docket submitting on Thursday, 15 households accused the division of denying them a chance
READ MOREFor a lot of this week, I’ve been touring via a number of the flood-ravaged areas of British Columbia and talking with folks whose lives have been upturned by the province’s second pure catastrophe in six months. My report from the journey shall be revealed after this article goes out. However earlier than I headed
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