RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina on Monday became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the latest sign of how Republican opposition to the health measure has weakened more than a decade after President Barack Obama signed it into law. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, signed legislation expanding the state’s Medicaid…
Gladys Kessler, a federal judge who in a historic ruling in 2006 found that the tobacco industry had violated civil racketeering laws for decades by “repeatedly, and with enormous skill and sophistication” deceiving the public about the health hazards of smoking, died on March 16 in Washington. She was 85. The cause of death, in…
In the summer of 2022, the clothing designer Olivia Villanti passed seven weeks driving through France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and Montenegro with her husband, Guillaume Guevara, an entrepreneur, and their young son. While on the trip, she would spend most weekends scavenging flea markets, picking out shirts with details like an elegant cutaway collar or…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — While growing up in Hong Kong, Cherry Tang accompanied her uncles to their family’s ancestral gravesite each spring as they lugged a whole roasted suckling pig up a subtropical hillside. The pig was placed in front of the tomb, alongside fruit and incense, and Ms. Tang helped relatives weed and clean as…
On the April cover of British Vogue, three models wearing dresses that hug their hourglass figures are described by three words: “The New Supers.” Those models — Jill Kortleve, Precious Lee and Paloma Elsesser — are represented by IMG Models, an agency that also represents Gigi and Bella Hadid. The models on the cover of…
Sahadi’s, a Brooklyn store for Middle Eastern spices, grains, condiments and other products that was established more than 125 years ago, has added wines and spirits to its inventory. Adjacent to its Industry City branch that opened in 2019, the company has installed an airy wine and spirits store with a particularly uncommon focus: the lesser-known products of…
Certain strains of E. coli, a bacteria commonly associated with food poisoning, can lead to painful urinary infections.
What could be bad about visiting your grandparents in Florida when it’s gray and chilly elsewhere? From the perspective of tweens and teens, a lot. Of course, seeing their relatives is great, but Charlie Abisror, 17, of Demarest, N.J., put it this way. When it comes to things to do, “a walk to the Circle…
It turns out that Pigeon Point was Whale Point until the Carrier Pigeon ran into it. That was 1853, and the Gold Rush had begun with a bang, sending dozens of ships a month toward this hypnotically beautiful and rocky stretch of the California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco. It would take several…
Like Peloton, Etsy and Zoom, Crocs saw its business boom during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s aesthetically questionable but easily slipped-on clogs were the perfect footwear for Americans puttering around their homes, gardens and kitchens during quarantine. But while many people got off their exercise bikes, cut back on D.I.Y. arts…