EditorialIndian National Flag Flies Half-Mast As A Mark Of Respect To Lata Mangeshkar During The Two-Day National Mourning, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - 07 Feb 2022
EditorialPalestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with cancer patient's prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 17 Jan 2022
EditorialLee Kaufman and her husband, Morty, in their presumably Swiffer-clean home in Valley Stream, N.Y. on Jan. 17, 2014. The couple became unlikely stars when they were chosen to pitch Swiffer cleaning products on television and the internet. Lee Kaufman died on Dec. 18, 2021 at a hospice center in Port Jefferson, N.Y. She was 99. Her son Bruce Allen said the cause was complications of pneumonia and COVID-19. (Robert Wright/The New York Times)
EditorialAnne Emerman and her husband Sidney Emerman at their apartment in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1986. Anne Emerman, a lifelong New York City activist for the civil rights of people with disabilities who was particularly outspoken about voting rights, and at one point forced the city to spend $10 million to make polling places accessible to people with disabilities, died at 84 on Nov. 3, 2021, at a hospital in Manhattan. Her daughter, Amy Emerman, said the cause was pneumonia, noting that Ms. Emerman, who contracted polio at the age of 7 in 1944 and had used a wheelchair for the rest of her life, had been struggling with complications of post-polio syndrome. (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Werry Crone shows the Dutch climate scientist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh in De Bilt, Netherlands on Dec. 19, 2019. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh who pioneered ways to help the public see the influence of climate change in heat waves, floods and other extreme weather disasters, died on Oct. 12, 2021, in Gouda, Netherlands. He was 59. His death, in a hospital, was caused by pneumonia, a complication of multiple myeloma, for which he had been treated for years, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute said. (Werry Crone via The New York Times)