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The New York Times — Monday, October 7, 2024

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Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age

With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.

Bruised Supreme Court Returns to Bench With Possible Election Cases Looming

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.

The War That Won’t End: How Oct. 7 Sparked a Year of Conflict

As war in the Middle East spreads, the original conflict between Israel and Hamas has persisted. This is why.

A Ghostly Life for Those Trickling Back to Villages Attacked on Oct. 7

Along Israel’s border with Gaza, reminders of the trauma of the Hamas-led assault are inescapable as the few who have returned try to start anew.

The New York Times — Saturday, October 5, 2024

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A Pentagon Debate: Are U.S. Deployments Containing the Fighting, or Inflaming It?

Military officials discuss whether sending more force to the Middle East is helping to prevent a much wider war, or emboldening Israel.

An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.

As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.

Trump’s Return to Butler Is Sure to Be a Spectacle. Is It Safe?

At a time of increased security risks, the former president has urged thousands of supporters to return with him to the place a gunman tried to take his life.

The New York Times — Friday, October 4, 2024

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After Successes, Israel’s Military Is in a ‘Long Game’ With No Clear Outcome

A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in the country’s history, its armed forces have regained the momentum. Some ask: to what end?

3 Former Officers Acquitted of Most Serious Charge in Tyre Nichols’s Death

The former officers were found guilty of witness tampering but not of the charge that would have held them responsible for causing his death.

Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It.

If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.

Filing in Trump Election Case Fleshes Out Roles of a Sprawling Cast

Donald Trump is the only defendant in the special counsel’s case that charges him with a plot to remain in power after his 2020 loss. But a newly unsealed brief provides fresh details about many other figures.

The New York Times — Thursday, October 3, 2024

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Israel Says at Least 8 Soldiers Are Killed in Clashes With Hezbollah

The cross-border fighting appeared to be the first direct ground confrontation between the two sides since Israel invaded Lebanon this week.

A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran

The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel.

Stranded in North Carolina’s Mountains, ‘You Can’t Tell That the World’s Going On’

With no way for cars to get into Bat Cave, N.C., food and water have been dropped off by helicopters or carried over the river on foot or by a raft.

The Moment When Vance Dodged a Jan. 6 Question but Said Plenty

JD Vance sailed fairly smoothly through some 90 minutes of Tuesday’s debate with Tim Walz. Then the subject turned to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

London Review Of Books – October 10, 2024 Preview

London Review of Books (LRB) – October 2 , 2024: The latest issue features Hardy’s Bad Behavior; Fredric Jameson, Byond Balliol…

John Kerrigan

England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson

A.E. Stallings

Poem: ‘The Plum Tree’

Helen Pfeifer

The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr

Katherine Harloe

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray

David Runciman

Short Cuts: Just ask Tony

Terry Eagleton

The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present by Fredric Jameson

James Vincent

Horny Robot Baby Voice

The New York Times — Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024

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Iran Launches Barrage of Ballistic Missiles at Israel in Retaliation for Assassinations

The 180 missiles fired at Israel on Tuesday evening sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war.

As Crisis Builds, Lebanon’s Government Is Nowhere to Be Found

Already crippled by years of economic decline, political paralysis and other crises, Lebanon has little but its own citizens’ grit to survive the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

In Booming Asheville, Residents Rethink Their Sense of Safety

Worries of flooding had not been top of mind as the mountain-ringed city flourished in recent years as a haven for artists, chefs, brewmasters, entrepreneurs and retirees.

Pete Rose, Baseball Star Who Earned Glory and Shame, Dies at 83

One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

Country Life Magazine – October 2, 2024 Preview

Country Life Magazine (October 1, 2024): The latest issue features

Mud-gilded places

In the first of a new series exploring England’s varied landscapes, John Lewis-Stempel discovers a paradise for wildlife amid the bleak desolation of the estuary

Pretty Chitty-Bang-Bang, we love you

Mary Miers reveals the origins of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, as Ian Fleming’s beloved magical flying car prepares to turn 60

Travel

  • Rosie Paterson digs out some private hideaways
  • Steven King experiences how the other half lived as he stays in the homes of some illustrious names
  • A trip to Tuscany is the perfect tonic for Pamela Goodman

The rest is history

Michael Hall examines the noble art of history painting through the output of such masters as van Dyck, Rubens and Fuseli

Inigo Lambertini’s favourite painting

The Italian ambassador picks a profound classical work of art   

Homesick for the olden days

Carla Carlisle takes a wistful look at history and admits we didn’t realise we had it so good

A Georgian triumph

John Goodall reveals the eight winners in this year’s Georgian Group Architectural Awards

Handsome and genteel

In the second of two articles, Jeremy Musson charts the revival of George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion in Virginia

The legacy

Carla Passino hails the founders of the peerless Wallace Collection

Our last hurrah

October is the time for filling up winter stores, says Lia Leendertz

Bury me in a willow-shaped coffin

English osier beds are enjoying a revival, finds Jane Wheatley

Another string to the bow

Harry Pearson meets Britain’s master luthier Roger Hansell

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell goes wild for jewellery      

Interiors

Bright and beautiful paint and wallpaper, with Amelia Thorpe

London Life

  • Rosie Paterson follows the V&A’s precious cargo
  • Samantha Cameron is in the hot seat
  • Jack Watkins relives Primrose Hill’s Death Pyramid plan
  • John Goodall asks whether enough is enough for the capital’s skyline

The world on the doorstep

Caroline Donald visits the gardens of China, Italy and Africa without leaving Seend Manor in Wiltshire

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson on quince

Foraging

John Wright gets imaginative in the kitchen with sweet chestnuts

The show must go on

James Fisher can’t see beyond an England cricket win in Pakistan

The New York Times — Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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Israeli Military Announces Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon

The military said it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in villages close to the Israel-Lebanon border.

Adams’s Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Federal Bribery Charge

Lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York filed a 25-page memo arguing that the conduct described in the indictment against him did not meet the definition of bribery.

Helene Killed People Across the South. Here Are Some of Their Stories.

After the Category 4 hurricane made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast and pummeled the Southeast, some victims’ portraits were coming into focus.

Jimmy Carter Approaches the Century Mark, Eclipsing His Presidential Peers

Nineteen months after entering hospice care, the 39th president is set to turn 100 on Tuesday. His birthday wish? A chance to vote for his party’s candidate one more time.

International Art: Apollo Magazine – October 2024

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Apollo Magazine (September 30, 2024): The new October 2024 issue features An interview with Liliane Lijn; The dealer who launched Picasso and The marvels of Mughal painting

October 2024 | Apollo Magazine

Raising a glass to Campari’s photographic archive

Scenes of rowdy bars and tipsy revellers in the 20th century show a world that is both alien and comfortingly familiar

The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs

Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her in when she was a teenager

The Andalusian winery that pairs sherry with Spanish paintings

The veteran sherry-makers at Bodegas Tradición in Cádiz may have perfected their craft, but the winery’s collection of paintings by great Spanish artists is no less impressive

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – October 7, 2024

A portrait of Kamala Harris in profile against a blue background.

The New Yorker (September 30, 2024): The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “The Candidate” – Onward and upward with the nation.

Kamala Harris for President

The Vice-President has displayed the basic values and political skills that would enable her to help end, once and for all, a poisonous era defined by Donald Trump. By The Editors

Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?

Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. By Andrew Solomon

Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?

An artificial voice has long been a dream of tinkerers and technologists. Now that A.I. can talk, though, we may forget who we’re talking to.

By Jill Lepore