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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
Antonio Austin is trying to hold his used car business together as President Trump's tariffs begin to drive up costs - and drive his customers deeper into crisis. Antonio Austin in the repair bay of Buy Here Pay Here car lot. His inventory and sales have been dropping. Credit... A mechanic came over to examine the car while Antonio went to check on other customers. He needed to sell at least 10 cars each month to break even, but so far, he'd sold only three as his auto shop backed up with repairs.
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1 month ago | 
demorgen.be | Eli Saslow
ReportageAmerikaanse veteranenJoy Marver (45) kwam als sergeant fysiek én mentaal gewond terug uit Irak. Nu Donald Trump en Elon Musk in het federale personeelsbestand willen snoeien, en ze haar C4 kreeg, gaat ze ook in Amerika door de hel.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
It had been six days since Joy Marver was locked out of her office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, five days since she checked herself into a hospital for emergency psychiatric care, and two days since she sent a letter to her supervisors: "Please, I'm so confused. Can you help me understand?"Now, she followed her wife into the storage room of their house outside Minneapolis, searching for answers no one would give her.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
Sam Runyon navigated to the house by memory as she reviewed her patient's file, a "problem list" of medications and chronic diseases that went on for several pages. Sam, a 45-year-old nurse, had already seen Cora Perkins survive two types of cancer. During previous appointments, she had found Cora's arms turning blue from diabetes, or her ankles swollen from congestive heart failure, or her stomach cramping from hunger with no fresh food left in the house.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Eli Saslow
Pennsylvania Republicans who narrowly won their House seats feel the heat of early votes back homeHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Newly minted U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan swore he wouldn’t support gutting government benefits such as Medicaid that residents of his northeastern Pennsylvania district rely on. Then the first-term Republican voted for a bill that could do just that. Bresnahan and two other …
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
infobae.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
Southern California Wildfires (Jan 2025)WildfiresBuilding (Construction)Real Estate and Housing (Residential)Evacuations and EvacueesWoolsey FireFireproofingLos Angeles County (Calif)Malibu (Calif)Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (Calif) Phillip y Claire Vogt construyeron su casa en un pico escarpado de las montañas de Santa Mónica para aprovechar al máximo las vistas pero, hace unos días, cuando miraban la ventana de su dormitorio veían los incendios que ardían en los cañones...
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
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They had built their house on a rugged peak in the Santa Monica Mountains to maximize the views, and now Phillip and Claire Vogt went to their bedroom window and saw fires burning in the nearby canyons and black smoke rolling across the Pacific Ocean. The olive trees in their yard bent sideways in the wind. Helicopters flew over the ridgeline carrying loads of water. They could see one wildfire moving in from the north, barreling toward their children’s elementary school.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
They had built their house on a rugged peak in the Santa Monica Mountains to maximize the views, and now Phillip and Claire Vogt went to their bedroom window and saw fires burning in the nearby canyons and black smoke rolling across the Pacific Ocean. The olive trees in their yard bent sideways in the wind. Helicopters flew over the ridgeline carrying loads of water. They could see one wildfire moving in from the north, barreling toward their children's elementary school.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
Jaime había hecho todo lo posible por pasar por estadounidense desde que tenía unos 5 años, cuando su abuelo le enseñó por primera vez algunas de las normas de asimilación del Sur profundo: nada de ropa holgada, nada de bandanas, nada de coches lowrider, nada de acento, nada de hablar español fuera de casa cuando podía evitarlo. En lugar de eso, se familiarizó con el lenguaje de la salvación, los rifles de caza y el fútbol americano de los Georgia Bulldogs.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Eli Saslow |Erin Schaff
His wife was spiraling into insomnia, and his children were afraid to go to school, so Jaime Cachua sought out the person he trusted most in a crisis. He sat at his kitchen table in rural Georgia across from his father-in-law, Sky Atkins, the family patriarch. Jaime, 33, hadn't seen his own father since he was 10 months old, when he left Mexico in a car seat bound for the United States.
