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The race was so close that when it was over, seven of the eight sprinters saw “PHOTO” next to their name on the large scoreboard inside the Stade de France. The term indicates a closer inspection of the finish is required. In this case, the timing was extended to the thousandth of a second to […] More
Many on the state’s northwestern coast felt they knew what to expect from Debby, which is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane, after a much stronger storm hit the area last year.As Tropical Storm Debby churned through the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, Lucia Trapani was securing patio furniture and offering refunds to people who had booked stays at the motel she manages on an island off Florida’s northwestern coast.Ms. Trapani had been through this before. Less than a year ago, as Hurricane Idalia approached, she shut off the water and electricity at the Sunset Isle RV Resort, where she worked at the time, and moved campers off the property. The Category 3 storm did so much damage to the resort that it still has not reopened.Ms. Trapani and Brooke Matthews — another manager of the motel, Park Place in Cedar Key — described Idalia with one word, in unison: “traumatizing.”Almost a year after Idalia became the strongest storm to hit the sparsely populated Big Bend region, known for manatees and marshlands, residents are bracing for Debby, which is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday. Storm surge of up to 10 feet was expected in some areas, andmandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Levy County, including Cedar Key, as well as Franklin and Citrus Counties. By midday Sunday, Debby was still a tropical storm, with winds of 65 miles per hour. But it was expected to strengthen rapidly over the gulf before making landfall as a hurricane, with winds of at least 74 m.p.h.At a news conference Sunday afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Debby was following a path like Idalia’s last year, but with a key difference: lower winds and a lot more rain are expected. Other states in the Southeast could also see heavy rain in the coming days, including Georgia and the Carolinas.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
When I was a child, my dad sat my older sister and me down in our living room and explained to us the rules of race in America. A Black man born into a Mississippi where Black boys could be lynched for merely standing too close to a white woman, he met my white mom in 1972. That was just a few years after the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia finally struck down 300 years’ worth of laws prohibiting people who descended from slavery from marrying people whose ancestors had enslaved them. In other words, Dad held no illusions about how race worked in our society and felt it was his duty as a parent to prepare us. Our mother might be white, he told us, but in this country, that fact was irrelevant to how we would be seen and treated. She might be white, but we were Black.What my dad said that day when I was an elementary school student merely confirmed an understanding that I already had. I grew up surrounded by aunts, uncles, cousins and my grandmama from my dad’s side as just another child in a big Black family, my mom most often the only white person at family events. Several times a year, we’d travel about an hour out of town to rural Iowa, where we’d spend time with my white grandparents, who loved us dearly but who existed in a completely white world that we were never quite fully a part of.I cannot say exactly how I knew I was Black before my dad sat us down, but I knew. Everyone knew. With my white family I was not white but part white. With my Black family and in the rest of America, I was Black. In American society, this race rule is so embedded that it is not even questioned.Last week, former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, told a room full of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother was Indian and whose father is Jamaican, “was always of Indian heritage” and “now wants to be known as Black.” When he did so, he was embracing a convenient historical amnesia about the country he seeks to lead.By suggesting that there was something nefarious or politically contrived about a mixed-race person claiming Blackness as her identity, he was acting as if that choice hadn’t been made for Harris when she was born to a Black father. We saw this same orchestrated amnesia when Barack Obama set out to become the first Black president. It seems that when a mixed-race Black American appears to be ascending to the pinnacles of American power, some white Americans suddenly forget the race rules that white society created.Trump’s questioning of Harris’s Black bona fides was swiftly denounced because Harris has long identified as Black, recounting a similar story to mine about her Indian mother explaining Harris’s Blackness to her as a child. In her 2019 autobiography, Harris wrote: “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters. She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women.” And of course, Harris would go on to graduate from one of the most prestigious historically Black universities where she had joined the nation’s oldest Black sorority.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
Children were inside the play structure at a baseball game when it was carried 15 to 20 feet in the air the by the wind. One child died and another was injured.A 5-year-old boy was killed at a professional baseball game in Maryland on Friday after a bounce house was picked up by a wind gust while children were inside of it, the authorities said.Children fell from the inflatable play structure when it was launched 15 to 20 feet in the air before landing on the baseball field at Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf, Md., where the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs were playing Friday night, according to a statement from the government of Charles County, Md.The 5-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was airlifted to Children’s National Hospital in Washington and later pronounced dead, according to Jennifer L. Harris, the press officer for Charles County, and the county’s news release. A second child was also airlifted to the same hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.The death took place while the Blue Crabs were playing against the York Revolution in an Atlantic League of Professional Baseball game in Waldorf, about 25 miles south of Washington. The teams then halted play, and the Blue Crabs postponed their games over the weekend.“Our entire organization shares our condolences with the family mourning the loss of a child, and concern for the child who was injured,” Courtney Knichel, general manager of the Blue Crabs, said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them all.”The bounce house was on an elevated, fenced-off surface above right field, according to a report from WRC-TV, NBC’s Washington affiliate. After being lifted off the ground, it crashed on the field near the first-base line.The bounce house is usually set up in an area for children to play in during games, Ms. Harris said in an email.A spokesman for the Blue Crabs could not be immediately reached for comment.Bounce houses have gone airborne and killed children before. This past April, a 2-year-old was killed and another child was injured in Arizona when the wind picked up the bounce house they were in and threw it into a neighboring lot. In 2021, five Australian children died after a bouncy castle was propelled 30 feet in the air during their school’s end-of-the-year celebration.Regency Furniture Stadium in 2008. On Friday, one child died and another was injured during a baseball game at the stadium.Mark Gail/The The Washington Post, via Getty ImagesA study by the University of Georgia found at least 479 injuries and 28 deaths happened in wind-related bounce house incidents around the world between 2000 to 2021.The Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal regulatory agency, recommends that bounce houses should not be used when maximum wind speeds exceed 15 to 25 miles per hour. The group advises that if “the tops of the trees are swaying” it may not be safe to use a bounce house. Bounce houses should be secured with at least six anchor points, according to the Amusement Devices Safety Council, Britain’s workplace health and safety regulator. More
Trump dijo en una publicación en redes sociales que el debate presidencial ya pactado quedaba “rescindido” dado que el presidente Joe Biden abandonó la carrera.[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]El expresidente Donald Trump dijo a última hora del viernes que se retiraba de un debate de ABC News programado para el 10 de septiembre y presentó una contrapropuesta a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris, su presunta oponente, para enfrentarse en Fox News seis días antes.El cambio, que Trump anunció en su sitio de redes sociales, Truth Social, suscitó objeciones por parte de la campaña de Harris y pareció poner en duda un posible enfrentamiento entre los rivales.Un funcionario de la campaña de Harris acusó el sábado a Trump de tramar el debate de Fox News para distraer la atención de su incumplimiento al compromiso con el debate de ABC. Trump había aceptado ese debate en mayo, antes de que el presidente Biden abandonara la carrera luego de su calamitosa actuación en un debate de la CNN el 27 de junio.“Donald Trump está asustado y tratando de retirarse del debate que ya había acordado y acude directamente a Fox News para sacarlo de apuros”, dijo Michael Tyler, director de comunicaciones de la campaña de Harris, en un comunicado. “Tiene que dejarse de juegos y presentarse al debate al que ya se comprometió el 10 de septiembre”.Tyler dijo que la campaña de Harris estaba abierta a considerar otros debates si Trump cumplía su compromiso con el debate de ABC.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
The athlete, Claire Michel, who swam in the Seine River during the women’s triathlon last week, was taken to a clinic in the Olympic Village on Sunday for treatment.Belgium’s triathlon mixed relay team has withdrawn from Monday’s event after one of its athletes who swam in the Seine River on Wednesday became ill, the team said Sunday.The athlete, Claire Michel, competed in the women’s triathlon on Wednesday, finishing in 38th place. The team, known as the Belgian Hammers, said in a statement released by the country’s Olympic committee and triathlon federation that Michel, 35, was taken to a clinic in the Olympic Village in Paris on Sunday for treatment and had returned to her room by Sunday evening.The team did not say whether Michel was sickened by pollution in the Seine, site of the triathlon’s 1,500-meter swim. But in the days leading up to her race, the men’s individual event was postponed and practices were canceled because water quality testing showed the Seine was unsafe to swim in.“The BOIC and Belgian Triathlon hope that lessons will be learned for future triathlon competitions,” the statement said. “We are thinking of training days that can be guaranteed, competition days and formats that are clear in advance and circumstances that do not cause uncertainty among athletes, entourage and fans.”De Standaard, a daily newspaper in Belgium, reported that Michel had contracted E. coli. A spokesman for Belgium’s Olympic team declined to answer questions about Michel’s condition on Sunday.Concerns about the water quality of the Seine have clouded the Olympics. Leading up to the games, more than $1.5 billion was spent to make the river safe for athletes to compete in.But Paris has been hit with rain since the opening weekend of the Games, when the city received about a month’s worth of rainfall over 36 hours, the authorities said. The rain led to a spike in dangerous bacteria in the river, where bacteria can take one to three days to dissipate.Water quality tests are being conducted daily, according to officials. Last week, training was canceled for two consecutive days and the men’s triathlon was delayed by a day because of the high bacteria levels, authorities said.On Saturday, Switzerland’s Olympic team announced it was making changes to its triathlon mixed relay lineup after one of its athletes also had to drop out of Monday’s race because of an illness. The athlete, Adrien Briffod, who competed in the men’s individual triathlon on Wednesday, had a gastrointestinal infection, but it was “not possible” to say if it was linked to the Seine’s water quality, the Swiss Olympic team said in the statement.There were no reports of stomach issues among athletes from other countries who participated in Wednesday’s events, Hanspeter Betschart, the Swiss team’s doctor, said in the statement.John Yoon More
On this week’s episode:Humans encounter various forms of nonhuman intelligence and try to make sense of them.This is a rerun of an episode that first aired in June 2023.GPT-4, via Sebastian BubeckNew York Times Audio is home to the “This American Life” archive. Download the app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. More
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for more than 17 months, has said that he has every intention of voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in the fall, according to his family.Mr. Carter, 99, who served as the nation’s 39th president from 1977 to 1981, would turn 100 on Oct. 1. No American president has lived longer than him.Mr. Carter’s son Chip asked his father on Wednesday if he was trying to make it to his 100th birthday, according to the former president’s grandson Jason.“I’m trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Mr. Carter replied, according to the grandson.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported on the conversation.Ms. Harris did not immediately comment.Mr. Carter appeared gaunt and frail at the funeral ceremony in Atlanta for his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, in November. He has remained at home in Plains, Ga., in hospice care far longer than many would have imagined; most people receive hospice care for less than a month.The early-voting period in Georgia begins on Oct. 15, and Georgia counties are expected to start to mail out absentee ballots about a month before Election Day. Mr. Carter intends to vote by mail, his grandson said.Georgia is one of a handful of battleground states expected to be crucial in the contest between Ms. Harris and Donald J. Trump, who won the state in 2016 but lost it, and the White House, in 2020 to Joseph R. Biden Jr.A CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday showed Mr. Trump leading Ms. Harris by three percentage points in the state. But there has been limited public opinion data illuminating the state of the campaign in Georgia since Mr. Biden withdrew and endorsed Ms. Harris last month. More
