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Evening Briefing: A humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza
Plus a return to normalcy in Europe and catching up with Sinead O'Connor. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story May 18, 2021 Your Tuesday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and Jade-Snow Joachim Good evening. Here's the latest. The New York Times 1. Gaza is facing a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe. The nine-day battle between Hamas militants and the Israeli military has damaged 17 hospitals and clinics. Destroyed sewage systems sent fetid wastewater through the streets. A desalination plant providing water to 250,000 people is offline. The only laboratory in Gaza that processes coronavirus tests was damaged by an Israeli airstrike. The Times created a day-by-day reconstruction of the violence with maps, death tolls and satellite images. There are subtle signs that Israel and Hamas may be edging toward a cease-fire, with Egypt and the U.N. working to "restore calm, " according to a person involved in the talks. All E.U. member states ex...
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Plus, Jerry Springer's obituary, N.B.A. results and spinning monkeys. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story April 28, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. Long school closures have put public education — and Randi Weingarten, the leader of a major teachers' union — on the defensive. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times, via Associated Press The long shadow of school closures During the early months of the Covid pandemic, Randi Weingarten and the teachers' union she leads faced a vexing question: When should schools reopen? For years, advocates of public education like Weingarten had argued that schools played an irreplaceable role. School was where children learned academic and social skills. It was where low-income children received subsidized meals. Without public schools, their defenders argued, society would come apart. On the other side of the ledger, however, was the worst pandemic...
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