Vecinos y negocios del barrio Machuchal y la calle Loíza, en San Juan, han tenido las tuberías de agua secas más de la mitad de los días que han pasado este año. Hasta este viernes eran exactamente 118 días contabilizados minuciosamente en una bitácora digital alimentada por casi un centenar de residentes de este sector enclavado en una de las zonas más turísticas de la capital de Puerto Rico. “Otra vez sin agua”, “Difícil vivir en este barrio y no mudarse”, escribieron en la herramienta. Las interrupciones son tan frecuentes allí que superan por mucho los 22 días con cortes de electricidad, que han sido en la última década un dolor de cabeza generalizado en este territorio de Estados Unidos.

The remediation of nuclear waste has long been a classified endeavor. Accidents, exposure to radiation, and worker injuries on the job rarely, if ever, make the newspapers where they would receive public scrutiny. This is, of course, intentional. The less oversight, the easier it is to mislead and cover up mistakes. Take the case of the military’s Palomares disaster.

On January 17, 1966, a collision occurred during a routine refueling operation of a B-52 bomber over Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The Associated Press reported first on the incident, writing that a KC-135 tanker with jet fuel had collided in mid-air with a B-52.

If a high-profile academic is reviewing a movie for the London Review of Books, that movie in question must be making some kind of mark on some kind of culture. And if people are actually reading a movie review in the London Review of Books, and writing thinkpieces in disagreement or favor of said movie or its review, that movie may actually be a cultural phenomenon.

Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said his agency worked diligently to investigate Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 — until federal prosecutors took over.

They made a commitment to share information with the state but never did, he said.