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AUBURN — Local police officers arrested 15 people from July 1-7, according to DeKalb County Jail records. Kyle Ratliff, 24, of Avilla, was arrested at 1:40 a.m. July 1 by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant from the DeKalb County Prosecuting Attorney. Matthew Burritt, 39, of the 1000 block of Irene Street, Auburn, was arrested at 11:50 a.m. July 1 by the Auburn Police Department on charges of burglary, resulting in bodily injury and kidnapping, with serious bodily inju...

America’s Accountability Problem Capitol attack, and the Trump years are any indication, the American lexicon has essentially dispensed with the term “accountability.” This should come as no surprise. After all, there’s nothing particularly new about this. In the Bush years, those who created a system of indefinite offshore detention at  Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, those who implemented a CIA global  torture program and the National Security Agency’s  warrantless surveillance p...

Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. One of the most striking things about “Nightmare Scenario,” a new book about the Trump administration’s shambolic response to Covid-19, is how the narrative seems to run on two tracks. One follows the chaotic story of the White House and the government agencies, with staffers running around, ostensibly trying to address a deadly ...

Some contributors provided the titles and brief descriptions of the books they’re recommending. Others wrote short essays, which we understand, because we find it hard to limit our thoughts about the books we love, too. In all cases, we truly appreciate their input. And if you have a book you’d like to recommend, please write us a letter. You can find our letter guidelines here. We hope you enjoy these recommendations and whatever you find yourself reading this summer. Louise Barnett,...

Reviewed by Olin Anderson, retired geneticist, novelist and Vietnam veteran. A book title and topic that matches the season and state of the United States. With the first hint of fall colors and disturbing trends in the reported cases of COVID-19, a reflection on Lawrence Wright’s novel “The End of October” seems apropos. The plot is simple. A novel virus comes to the attention of the main character, a lead scientist at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an institution we hav...

The 96-year-old magazine, known for its revered writers and sophisticated audience, is being consumed by a labor dispute.

Monday briefing: A second shot at freedom Graham Russell Top story: ‘Essential we give ourselves more time’ © Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Covid restrictions in England are expected to continue for weeks more. Good morning to you all, Graham Russell here kicking off the week in news. Boris Johnson is today expected to announce a delay to England’s “freedom day” in a bid to tackle the rise of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, which now makes up more than 90% of new inf...

The debate over the origins of the coronavirus—did it come from a wet market in Wuhan or from the virology lab nearby—has exposed the bias of media and technology companies and the potential danger of so-called gain of function research. But it also has led to something of an intellectual...

And i think were absolutely right in categorizing it that way. lawrence, thank you so much. its a big decision facing new yorkers and today for the first time, many get to do something about it. first time, many get to do something about it ♪ its grilled cheese time. ♪ ♪ yeah, its time for grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ after we make grilled cheese, ♪ ♪ then were eating grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ because its time. ♪ ♪ yeah. ♪ ♪ time for grilled cheese. ♪ ive never slept like this bef...

As someone who has worked on stories before at the centers for disease control, it was heartbreaking to see that noble institution so humbled by the colossal errors that they made. even when they finally finished the test, when they sent it out, they knew before it left the doors of the cdc that this test would fail at least 30% of the time and they didnt tell anybody. the public health labs discovered that it was creating all these false positives. >> lawrence, can i ask you, if you give me tho...