Breaking NewsSome residents of Andrews in Huntington County are swearing off the town's water and town officials say the company responsible needs to pay up.1:14 AM EDT July 16, 2020ANDREWS, Ind. — A public health emergency was declared in the small town of Andrews, Indiana. residents against drinking or using the town’s water. After town officials said were found in the drinking water. The maximum contaminate level (MCL) of vinyl chloride allowed in drinking is .002 mg/L because it is a carcinogen. there was “more than 10 times” that amount of vinyl chloride in one of their wells and that...…Breaking NewsSome residents of Andrews in Huntington County are swearing off the town's water and town officials say the company responsible needs to pay up.1:14 AM EDT July 16, 2020ANDREWS, Ind. — A public health emergency was declared in the small town of Andrews, Indiana. residents against drinking or using the town’s water. After town officials said were found in the drinking water. The maximum contaminate level (MCL) of vinyl chloride allowed in drinking is .002 mg/L because it is a carcinogen. there was “more than 10 times” that amount of vinyl chloride in one of their wells and that...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.I am not an art critic, but I don’t think ’s new are very good. They inspire nothing but malaise and communicate a dilettante energy. Painting is to Bush what politics used to be: a hobby for a wealthy man. Yet there is something revelatory about them, though this may be unintentional on the part of the artist. For his new book, Out of Many, One, Bush has selected immigrants for his subjects. Most are well-known, wealthy or established in some way, as if the American dream requires an M.B.A. One is Henry Kissinger, whom Bush...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.I am not an art critic, but I don’t think ’s new are very good. They inspire nothing but malaise and communicate a dilettante energy. Painting is to Bush what politics used to be: a hobby for a wealthy man. Yet there is something revelatory about them, though this may be unintentional on the part of the artist. For his new book, Out of Many, One, Bush has selected immigrants for his subjects. Most are well-known, wealthy or established in some way, as if the American dream requires an M.B.A. One is Henry Kissinger, whom Bush...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Amazon is fast because of with human needs — such as going to the bathroom. Pro-union workers in Bessemer, Alabama, that they didn’t always have time to use the bathroom because of Amazon’s rigorous demands on them to pack and ship orders. Drivers who deliver those orders report a similar problem: Deprived of breaks, they sometimes have to pee in bottles. Amazon recently denied this phenomenon had ever occurred until it was confronted with the . The company then reversed itself, , and announced it would “look for solutions.”One...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Amazon is fast because of with human needs — such as going to the bathroom. Pro-union workers in Bessemer, Alabama, that they didn’t always have time to use the bathroom because of Amazon’s rigorous demands on them to pack and ship orders. Drivers who deliver those orders report a similar problem: Deprived of breaks, they sometimes have to pee in bottles. Amazon recently denied this phenomenon had ever occurred until it was confronted with the . The company then reversed itself, , and announced it would “look for solutions.”One...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Someone has to care for your children, your parents, and someday, you. Absent this person, who steps in? A relative, maybe, if they’ve got the time. Otherwise you’re on your own, left to sort out the burden of care with whatever resources you possess. Should those resources be plentiful, you’ll be fine. If they aren’t, you’re in trouble. You’ll have to leave work to care for your children. Your parents will depend entirely on you. And as you age, no one will be there to nurse you.That fate is already reality for thousands of...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Someone has to care for your children, your parents, and someday, you. Absent this person, who steps in? A relative, maybe, if they’ve got the time. Otherwise you’re on your own, left to sort out the burden of care with whatever resources you possess. Should those resources be plentiful, you’ll be fine. If they aren’t, you’re in trouble. You’ll have to leave work to care for your children. Your parents will depend entirely on you. And as you age, no one will be there to nurse you.That fate is already reality for thousands of...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In the race to , North Carolina Republicans have pulled ahead. If passed, Senate Bill 514 wouldn’t just ban people under the age of 21 from getting the transition health care they need, it would also state employees to out trans and queer children to their parents. If a child displays “symptoms of gender dysphoria, gender nonconformity, or otherwise demonstrates a desire to be treated in a manner incongruent with the minor’s sex,” they must notify the child’s parents or guardians, the legislation mandates.Legislators in other...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In the race to , North Carolina Republicans have pulled ahead. If passed, Senate Bill 514 wouldn’t just ban people under the age of 21 from getting the transition health care they need, it would also state employees to out trans and queer children to their parents. If a child displays “symptoms of gender dysphoria, gender nonconformity, or otherwise demonstrates a desire to be treated in a manner incongruent with the minor’s sex,” they must notify the child’s parents or guardians, the legislation mandates.Legislators in other...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Trouble found Sunny Rao early the morning of October 30. By the time the Washington State–based data scientist woke up, the group text she shared with several co-workers at the Democratic data firm Civis Analytics had already begun to buzz. “Someone said that they had been fired,” she recalls. Worried, Rao tried to log in to her work computer, only to find it locked. Then she checked her email, and there it was, the news she’d feared: She was terminated effective immediately. No one “even met with me to tell me that I was...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Trouble found Sunny Rao early the morning of October 30. By the time the Washington State–based data scientist woke up, the group text she shared with several co-workers at the Democratic data firm Civis Analytics had already begun to buzz. “Someone said that they had been fired,” she recalls. Worried, Rao tried to log in to her work computer, only to find it locked. Then she checked her email, and there it was, the news she’d feared: She was terminated effective immediately. No one “even met with me to tell me that I was...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Trouble found Sunny Rao early the morning of October 30. By the time the Washington State–based data scientist woke up, the group text she shared with several co-workers at the Democratic data firm Civis Analytics had already begun to buzz. “Someone said that they had been fired,” she recalls. Worried, Rao tried to log in to her work computer, only to find it locked. Then she checked her email, and there it was, the news she’d feared: She was terminated effective immediately. No one “even met with me to tell me that I was...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Trouble found Sunny Rao early the morning of October 30. By the time the Washington State–based data scientist woke up, the group text she shared with several co-workers at the Democratic data firm Civis Analytics had already begun to buzz. “Someone said that they had been fired,” she recalls. Worried, Rao tried to log in to her work computer, only to find it locked. Then she checked her email, and there it was, the news she’d feared: She was terminated effective immediately. No one “even met with me to tell me that I was...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Last August, Missouri voters ignored the state’s Republican leadership and voted by referendum to Medicaid expansion, the sixth Republican-controlled state to do so. Now, Republicans appear out for revenge. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee rejected a bill that would have allowed the state “to spend $130 million in state funds and $1.6 billion in federal money to pay for the program’s expansion,” the Kansas City StarRepublicans say the state just can’t afford the cost. The bill, state representative Dirk Deaton claims,...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Last August, Missouri voters ignored the state’s Republican leadership and voted by referendum to Medicaid expansion, the sixth Republican-controlled state to do so. Now, Republicans appear out for revenge. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee rejected a bill that would have allowed the state “to spend $130 million in state funds and $1.6 billion in federal money to pay for the program’s expansion,” the Kansas City StarRepublicans say the state just can’t afford the cost. The bill, state representative Dirk Deaton claims,...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.  to get it nightly.In 1989, an Evangelist met a serial killer and confirmed a personal theory. Ted Bundy killed all those women because of porn, concluded James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family. Bundy himself said so, in a long, tearful with Dobson. “You were not physically abused. You were not sexually abused. You were not emotionally abused,” Dobson said to him, more statement than question. Not at all, Bundy...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.  to get it nightly.In 1989, an Evangelist met a serial killer and confirmed a personal theory. Ted Bundy killed all those women because of porn, concluded James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family. Bundy himself said so, in a long, tearful with Dobson. “You were not physically abused. You were not sexually abused. You were not emotionally abused,” Dobson said to him, more statement than question. Not at all, Bundy...WW…

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statement or Subscribe to save articleAdvertisementGo to latest–Joshua PeachThe Australian sharemarket is extending to fresh six-month lows this afternoon, tracking losses on Wall Street after stronger-than-expected jobs data heaped more interest rate worries on equity markets.At midday, the S&P/ASX 200 is 42.6 points or 0.6 per cent, lower after tumbling below 7000 on Tuesday for the first time since March. The benchmark is now hovering around 6900.10 of the 11 sectors are lower, with...…Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statement or Subscribe to save articleAdvertisementGo to latest–Joshua PeachThe Australian sharemarket is extending to fresh six-month lows this afternoon, tracking losses on Wall Street after stronger-than-expected jobs data heaped more interest rate worries on equity markets.At midday, the S&P/ASX 200 is 42.6 points or 0.6 per cent, lower after tumbling below 7000 on Tuesday for the first time since March. The benchmark is now hovering around 6900.10 of the 11 sectors are lower, with...WW…