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      Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Commander in Airstrike Near Beirut

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      The strike was in retaliation for a deadly rocket attack this weekend in the Golan Heights. At least three civilians were killed and 74 others wounded on Tuesday, Lebanese officials said.Israel launched a deadly strike in a densely populated Beirut suburb on Tuesday in retaliation for a rocket attack in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights that it blamed Hezbollah for and that killed 12 children and teenagers on a soccer field.The target of the Israeli strike in a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital was Fuad Shukr, a senior official who serves as a close adviser to Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to three Israeli security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.The Israel Defense Forces later said in a statement that its fighter jets had “eliminated” Mr. Shukr, but there was no confirmation from Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed group, and the claim could not be independently verified.Hezbollah has denied carrying out the attack in the Golan Heights on Saturday. The latest strikes were likely to fuel concerns that Israel’s long-running conflict with the group could escalate into a full-blown war even as Israel wages a military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after that group led a deadly assault in Israel on Oct. 7.The attack on Tuesday is believed to be the first time since the war with Hamas began that Israel has targeted Hezbollah in Beirut. In January, an Israeli airstrike in a Beirut suburb killed Saleh al-Arouri, a senior leader of Hamas, which is also backed by Iran.The strike on Tuesday killed at least three other people — a woman and two children — and wounded at least 74 others, five critically, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. Officials were still searching the rubble for other victims, the ministry said. More

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      Netanyahu Vows ‘Severe’ Response to Deadly Rocket Attack Tied to Hezbollah

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      Fears linger among Lebanese civilians after a strike killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.Tensions were high on both sides of the Israeli-Lebanese border on Monday as Israeli leaders vowed to deliver a significant military blow against the armed group Hezbollah in response to a deadly rocket attack over the weekend.The attack on Saturday killed 12 children and teenagers in the Druse Arab village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia that dominates southern Lebanon and that has been firing rockets into Israel for months, denied responsibility for the strike. But Israel and the United States blamed the group, saying it was Hezbollah’s rocket that had been fired from territory it controls.Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the site of the attack on Monday, said, “Our response is coming, and it will be severe.” Local residents heckled Mr. Netanyahu, telling him they had no security and chanting, “Murderer! Murderer!” videos posted on social media showed.Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to Majdal Shams came the morning after Israeli cabinet ministers authorized him and Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, to determine the nature and timing of the military response. The strike and Israel’s expected counterattack have raised fears that nearly 10 months of armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spiral into an all-out war.Hezbollah began firing rockets, antitank missiles and drones into Israel in solidarity with Hamas after that group, which is also backed by Iran, led the deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.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

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      How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human Disaster: Half a Million Deaths

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      The birds were accidentally poisoned in India. New research on what happened next shows how wildlife collapse can be deadly for people.To say that vultures are underappreciated would be putting it mildly. With their diet of carrion and their featherless heads, the birds are often viewed with disgust. But they have long provided a critical cleaning service by devouring the dead.Now, economists have put an excruciating figure on just how vital they can be: The sudden near-disappearance of vultures in India about two decades ago led to more than half a million excess human deaths over five years, according to a forthcoming study in the American Economic Review.Rotting livestock carcasses, no longer picked to the bones by vultures, polluted waterways and fed an increase in feral dogs, which can carry rabies. It was “a really huge negative sanitation shock,” said Anant Sudarshan, one of the study’s authors and an economics professor at the University of Warwick in England.The findings reveal the unintended consequences that can occur from the collapse of wildlife, especially animals known as keystone species for the outsize roles they play in their ecosystems. Increasingly, economists are seeking to measure such impacts.A study looking at the United States, for example, has suggested that the loss of ash trees to the invasive emerald ash borer increased deaths related to cardiovascular and respiratory illness. And in Wisconsin, researchers found that the presence of wolves reduced vehicle collisions with deer by about a quarter, creating an economic benefit that was 63 times greater than the cost of wolves killing livestock.“Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning do matter to human beings,” said Eyal Frank, an economist at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of the new vulture study. “And it’s not always the charismatic and fuzzy species.”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

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      Israel Retrieves Bodies of 5 Hostages From Tunnel in Gaza

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      The military said that intelligence, including information from detained Palestinian militants, had led to the bodies in the Khan Younis area.Israeli forces retrieved the bodies of five hostages from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Thursday, amid growing international and domestic pressure for a cease-fire deal that would lead to the release of the remaining captives.The bodies were found on Wednesday in a zone around the city of Khan Younis that Israel previously designated as a humanitarian area where Gazan civilians could go to avoid the fighting and to receive aid, the military said. The tunnel shaft was nearly 220 yards long and more than 20 yards underground, with several rooms, the military said.Israel has said that Hamas — which led the attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that prompted the war in Gaza — has exploited the designated humanitarian zone to launch rockets at Israel, as well as to use it for other military purposes. Aid groups have lamented that Israel has struck the area despite telling Gazans they would be safer there. Hamas had no immediate response.The five hostages — Maya Goren, 56; Ravid Katz, 51; Oren Goldin, 33; Tomer Ahimas, 20; and Kiril Brodski, 19 — had already been presumed dead by Israeli officials.From left: Ravid Katz, Kiril Brodski, Tomer Ahimas, Oren Goldin and Maya Goren in photos provided by the Hostages Families Forum.Agence France-Presse, via The Hostages Families ForumMr. Brodski and Mr. Ahimas were soldiers who were killed during the Hamas-led attack in October, while the other three were civilians whose bodies were taken to Gaza as bargaining chips, Israeli officials said.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

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      Breast Cancer Survival Not Boosted by Double Mastectomy, Study Says

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      A large study showed that for most patients, having both breasts removed after cancer was detected in one made no difference.For the more than 310,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year, no matter how well the treatment goes, there is always a lingering fear. Could the disease come back, even years later? And what if it comes back in the other breast? Could they protect themselves today by having a double mastectomy?A study has concluded that there is no survival advantage to having the other breast removed. Women who had a lumpectomy or a mastectomy and kept their other breast did just as well as women who had a double mastectomy, Dr. Steven Narod of Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and his colleagues reported, using U.S. data from more than 661,000 women with breast cancer on one side.In the study, published in JAMA Oncology on Thursday, the researchers added that most women did very well — the chance of cancer in the other breast was about 7 percent over 20 years.But the study’s results may not apply to women who have a gene variant, BRCA1 or BRCA2, which greatly increases their cancer risk. For the 1 in 500 American women with this variant, cancer researchers agree that it’s worth considering a double mastectomy.The finding that a double mastectomy is not protective against death for many breast cancers seems counterintuitive, Dr. Narod admitted. An accompanying editorial, by Dr. Seema Ahsan Khan, a breast cancer surgeon at Northwestern University, and Masha Kocherginsky, a biostatistician also at Northwestern, called it a conundrum.Previous smaller studies have come to the same conclusion. But, Dr. Narod said, some doctors have questioned the methods in earlier research. 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

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      Illinois Sheriff’s Deputy Charged in Death of Sonya Massey

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      The deputy, Sean Grayson, has since been fired. A review of the investigation did not find the use of deadly force “justified.”A grand jury in Illinois charged a sheriff’s deputy with murder on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 36-year-old woman who called the police over concerns about a prowler.Sean Grayson, a sheriff’s deputy with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in Springfield, Ill., faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in the death of the woman, Sonya Massey, according to a news release from the Sangamon County State’s Attorney’s Office.The case was first evaluated under Illinois law for the use of deadly force, the office said. “A review of the Illinois State Police investigation, including the body-worn camera footage, does not support a finding that Deputy Sean Grayson was justified in his use of deadly force,” John Milhiser, the Sangamon County state’s attorney, said in the statement.Mr. Grayson has since been fired from the sheriff’s office, Sheriff Jack Campbell said in a statement posted to the agency’s Facebook page.“It is clear that the deputy did not act as trained or in accordance with our standards,” Sheriff Campbell said.The shooting that led to the charges occurred on July 6, when Mr. Grayson and another deputy were sent to Ms. Massey’s home in Springfield at around 12:50 a.m., after Ms. Massey called 911 to report “a prowler,” according to officials’ statements.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

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      Inmate Dies After Fight Breaks Out at Troubled Brooklyn Jail

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      Edwin Cordero, 36, died at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where his lawyer said conditions were “awful.”A 36-year-old inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn died Wednesday after he was injured in a fight at the jail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.The inmate, Edwin Cordero, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is part of the Justice Department and runs the jail. No other employees or inmates were injured during the brawl, which was stopped by jail employees, according to officials.Mr. Cordero had been in custody at the detention center, or M.D.C., which has more than 1,300 inmates, since March 2024. He was initially sentenced to 18 months in the District of New Jersey for wire fraud and was later sentenced in June to 24 months in the Southern District of New York for committing assault, which was a violation of his supervised release.Andrew Dalack, a lawyer representing Mr. Cordero, called his client’s death “senseless and completely preventable,” while adding that Mr. Cordero was “another victim of M.D.C. Brooklyn, an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected federal jail that is hell on earth.”A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the matter.In February, Mr. Cordero was walking home from a deli in the Bronx when he was struck by a snowball thrown by a small child who was playing with a 17-year-old across the street, prosecutors said in a court document. Mr. Cordero confronted them and slashed the older child’s face, the document said.Mr. Cordero’s death comes just months after a federal judge, Jesse M. Furman, refused to send a man convicted in a drug case to the troubled jail. The judge cited complaints of horrible conditions, frequent lockdowns and staffing shortages.In a June letter to another federal judge, Ronnie Abrams, Mr. Dalack cited the “awful” conditions at M.D.C., as he requested that Mr. Cordero’s sentence be 18 months instead of 24, followed by 12 months of supervised release. Mr. Dalack wrote that Mr. Cordero and other detainees were “denied the most basic level of care, including access to showers, medical treatment and phone calls with their families” during lockdowns.Ashley Cordero, Mr. Cordero’s wife, wrote to the judge in a June letter that she had spoken to her husband recently and that he was “depressed and upset.”The couple had two children together: a baby who was 8 months old at the time of the letter and a 2-year-old daughter. “Mr. Cordero is more than just a statistic,” Mr. Dalack said. “He is a real person with a family who genuinely loved and cared for him.”M.D.C. has been the primary federal detention center in New York City since the Bureau of Prisons closed its sister jail in Manhattan in 2021 because of deteriorating conditions there. Visitation has been suspended until further notice, according to the center’s website.Benjamin Weiser More

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      Six People Dead, Apparently by Poisoning, in Thailand, Police Say

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      The dead did not show outward signs of injury. Mass violence is unusual in the capital, Bangkok.Six people were found dead on Tuesday in a hotel room at a Grand Hyatt in the heart of downtown Bangkok, according to police officials, who said they appeared to have been poisoned.Two of the dead were Americans of Vietnamese descent and four were Vietnamese nationals, according to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Police Maj. Gen. Theeradej Thumsuthee, chief investigator of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, who was being interviewed on Nation TV, a Thai news channel, said three of the dead were men, and three were women.“From the preliminary examination of the scene, it was assumed that they had been poisoned,” General Theeradej said. He added that there were traces that all six drank coffee or tea. A preliminary autopsy did not find any injuries, he said.A guide was being questioned, he said.Police Lt. Gen. Thiti Saengsawang, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, told reporters that there were no signs of a struggle. The bodies were found in the same room, a suite. All six were supposed to check out on Tuesday and had their bags packed.Mass violence is unusual in Bangkok, but the capital was shaken by a shooting last October when a 14-year-old gunman opened fire in a luxury shopping mall, eventually killing three people.The Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel is on a busy intersection in Bangkok’s city center. It sits opposite the Erawan Shrine, the site of a deadly bombing in 2015 that killed 20 people. More