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Eliza Liebowitz, a junior at Roslyn High School, founded the nonprofit Clean Your Closets Out for Children, which has collected thousands of toys over the past year — ranging from action figures ...

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Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the ...

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The strong Santa Ana winds that fueled much of the L.A. wildfires’ destruction are expected to relax for a few days. Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images The fires around Los Angeles ...