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For years, villagers who lived near the Alau dam in northeastern Nigeria had told government officials that the structure was broken and the reservoir behind it too full. But in early September, after heavy rains, a half-dozen officials stood overlooking the brimming reservoir, their feet squelching in the mud as …

They had escaped a war zone, but in many ways, the fight for life was just beginning. Now their battle was against cancer. They had come to Jordan from Gaza for treatment. Some traveled with their families. Others formed impromptu ones. But the echoes of the war back home found …

Starting Nov. 1, people in L.A. County will be able to legally sell home-cooked meals. Nearby, Riverside County has permitted home restaurants like these for the past five years. But what happens when home kitchens are turned into takeout joints? Meet the New Home Kitchen Business Meet the New Home …

Old World Young Africa How a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Having Too Many Babies Many African women have far more children than women on other continents do: Women in Nigeria have an average of over five children, while American and European women have about 1.5, and Chinese women even …

Fugetsu-Do has been making mochi for most of the past 121 years.It’s kept the tradition alive through Japanese American internment, urban renewal and Covid.For generations, the store has helped anchor the culture of a neighborhood marked by displacement.How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution of Little Tokyo How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution …

Follow the latest updates on Hurricane Milton. Hurricane Milton lashed the western coast of Florida with 120-mile-per-hour winds upon making landfall on Wednesday evening just south of Sarasota. The storm, which formed only four days before landfall, became one of the most intense hurricanes on record in the Gulf of …

The young boy couldn’t resist the dance moves he saw being performed around him: the rapid foot taps, the ligament-spraining knee twists, the torso shimmies, all coming together in what some might describe as a sort of urban tap dance. Growing up in an impoverished Black township near Johannesburg in …

Let’s be real. The rectangular design of the quintessential smartphone is getting stale for lots of people, including this graying gadget reviewer. That’s why the next phone I buy won’t be another “same, same” iteration of the iPhone. It will be a foldable, a phone with a bendable display that …

With the largest and deadliest war in Europe since the end of World War II now in its third year, the scale of the devastation wrought by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to mount. The front line is a place of ghastly violence where hundreds of thousands of Russian …