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When the novelist Boris Fishman was looking for answers, he sought them at a silent retreat. “As the date approached,” he writes in a guest essay, “my thrill at the prospect of unspecified liberation turned to terror. I had never been alone with myself for that long.”
nyti.msOpinion | To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.A silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
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If you can set the awful politics of “Citizen Vigilante” aside “and try to engage with it as a film, you’ll be more disappointed than you can imagine,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “‘Citizen Vigilante’ is a terrible movie, top to bottom.”
nyti.msOpinion | The Right Can’t Even Make a Revenge Movie Well‘Citizen Vigilante’ is a bargain-bin movie for the ages.
Three teenage boys printed directions for a hike on a trail in British Columbia, Canada that Google Maps estimated to be over five hours. In reality, their hike weeks ago lasted at least 12 hours and required the intervention of rescue crews, according to the Lions Bay Search and Rescue team.
nyti.msTeen Hikers Rescued 12 Hours Into Google Maps HikeThe three teenage boys estimated their hike time would be over five hours on a rugged trail in British Columbia, Canada. A helicopter crew had to retrieve them.
Breaking News: Wildfires in Spokane County, Washington forced thousands of people to evacuate as wind gusts powered rapidly spreading flames.
nyti.msWildfires in Spokane, Wash., Force Thousands to EvacuateThe Old Trails fire had grown to about 2,500 acres by Saturday afternoon, propelled by strong wind gusts and high temperatures.
Breaking News: At least three people were killed and two other people were wounded in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, the authorities said.
nyti.msShooting at In-and-Out Burger in Idaho Leaves at Least 3 Dead and 2 Injured, Official SaysA spokesman for Twin Falls cautioned that the number of victims was “expected to be higher.” The police said the shooter was dead.
Jumping spiders are tiny, social, fuzzy creatures. Their popularity as pets has been fueled by their appeal on social media, where they appear in close up shots, perched on a human’s manicured fingernail, staring intently with eight penetrating, beady black eyes. nyti.ms/3RNFQxc
The U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro contradicted President Trump's repeated theory about the damage to the Reflecting Pool, blasting the Interior Department for the rushed and “botched” renovation. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
nyti.msIn Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s WrathJeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had killed several Hezbollah members overnight on a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, challenging a fragile cease-fire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.
nyti.msIsrael Says It Killed Several Hezbollah Members on Key Lebanon HilltopThe confrontation, over a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, challenged a fragile cease-fire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.
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“The darker consequences of an underregulated public health environment are everywhere this summer,” Jessica Grose writes.
nyti.msOpinion | If This Is Medical Freedom, Why Do I Feel Trapped?
Three people were killed and 21 injured after an improvised bomb was detonated at a restaurant in central Moscow, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee Information Center told the state news agency TASS.
nyti.msImprovised Bomb Kills 3 at an Upscale Moscow RestaurantAmong the victims of the explosion, which also injured 21 people, were a security guard and a woman who the authorities say had arrived with the suspicious package.
Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court in 2018. That has emerged as a major issue in her first re-election campaign since Roe v. Wade was overturned. nyti.ms/4xatnT9
An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has been charged with violating his colleagues’ privacy after he secretly recorded them making racist, homophobic and sexist comments, the county district attorney announced on Friday.
nyti.msOfficer Charged With Violating Privacy for Recording Colleagues’ RacismThe charges stem from recordings that Daniel Flores made over the course of 2024, when he was working in a Los Angeles police unit that recruited new officers.
Spain installed a floating barrier near a sea wall between Morocco and Ceuta on Saturday, after tens of thousands of migrants entered the Spanish territory on Thursday. Many of the migrants were young men looking for work. nyti.ms/4wv0bGA
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is “perfectly calibrated for the contemporary culture war,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
nyti.msOpinion | Why We Can’t Stop Talking About ‘The Odyssey’Christopher Nolan’s film is perfectly calibrated for the culture war.
President Trump decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers, worth almost $7 billion, after a game of golf with Finland’s president. The question, experts say, is how many the U.S. really needs. nyti.ms/4hK355K
Former Representative George Santos has been fined $35,000 over allegations that he engaged in insider trading by placing bets on a prediction market about whether he would attend President Trump’s State of the Union address, federal regulators announced on Friday.
nytimes.comGeorge Santos Fined Over Bets on State of the Union on Kalshi Prediction MarketA federal regulator fined the former lawmaker $35,000 over allegations of insider trading by placing bets on Kalshi about whether he would attend the State of the Union address in February.
Breaking News: Vincent Pastore, a character actor who ratted out Tony Soprano as a mobster-turned-informant on the hit show “The Sopranos,” has died at 80. nyti.ms/4fy3ZRx
A group of women whose nude images were illegally obtained from their cellphones by a police officer during traffic stops in Missouri agreed on Friday to a $4 million settlement in a lawsuit over his actions, a lawyer for the victims said.
nyti.ms$4 Million Settlement in Suit Against Officer Who Took Nude Images From Women’s PhonesJulian Alcala, who was a police officer in Eastern Missouri, had illegally obtained the private images during traffic stops, the authorities said.
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” was on pace to collect at least $325 million at the North American box office from Thursday through Sunday, Sony Pictures said on Saturday. That would be one of the biggest domestic openings in Hollywood’s history books, ranking only behind Disney’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
nyti.ms‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Heads for $875 Million Opening at Global Box OfficeThe movie, the 11th big-budget Spider-Man movie since 2002, was on pace to have one of the biggest domestic first weekends ever.
Aesthetically, the Apple Watch looks more like a smartphone on my wrist than it does a classic timepiece. Wirecutter went on a mission to find a comfortable, elegant band that turns the Apple Watch into an accessory worth pairing with your finest clothes. nyti.ms/4beguz5
nyti.msYour Apple Watch Band Is Ugly. Wear a Nicer One to a Fancy Event.You can fancy up your Apple Watch for a nice event with the right band.
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