close Video Feds look to fight flesh-destroying drug 'tranq' Fox News national correspondent Alexis McAdams has the latest on the FDA restricting imports of animal tranquilizer Xylazine, also known as 'tranq,' in an effort to curb overdose deaths on 'America Reports.' Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. held a press conference in Manhattan Sunday to warn about "a deadly, skin-rotting zombie drug" that could make the scourge of fentanyl alone seem "tame." "Now we all know what a scourge fentanyl has been across the New York area – New York City, Long Island, all the suburbs – but now we’re seeing a new even worse type of drug being mixed with fentanyl. It’s also mixed with heroin and other addictive substances. This new drug could be a nightmare. It’s called xylazine, " Schumer said. "It’s a deadly, skin-rotting zombie drug that evil drug dealers are now mixing with fentanyl, with heroin and with other drugs. And it’s already bringing a horrific wave … [Read more...] about Democrat Schumer warns NYC ‘skin-rotting zombie drug’ trafficked from Mexico could make fentanyl ‘seem tame’
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Festival’s Resurgence Has Chinese Sending Manna to the Heavens
BEIJING — Somewhere in the next world, the spirit of Zhao Wen’s brother has struck it rich. On Wednesday night, the eve of the annual “tomb sweeping” festival known as Qingming , Ms. Zhao, 51, set alight wads of fake Chinese renminbi and American dollars in a street just off a major thoroughfare here in the capital. She also burned ceremonial checks, which her brother could deposit in heaven’s bank. In case he got bored with the immortal realm, she had thrown in a passport for easy interdimensional travel. “This saves me a lot of trouble,” she said, poking at the flames with a stick. “They probably have the same system as we have on Earth, so now he can buy whatever he wants.” Qingming, which was observed on Thursday, is an age-old festival in which the living pay respect to their dearly departed ancestors — and in-laws — by tidying graves and burning paper offerings so that the spirits can afford the good afterlife. Banned by the victorious Communist Party in 1949 for its … [Read more...] about Festival’s Resurgence Has Chinese Sending Manna to the Heavens
Where Feeding the Dead Is a Fading Tradition
TAIPEI, Taiwan — While growing up in Hong Kong, Cherry Tang accompanied her uncles to their family’s ancestral gravesite each spring as they lugged a whole roasted suckling pig up a subtropical hillside. The pig was placed in front of the tomb, alongside fruit and incense, and Ms. Tang helped relatives weed and clean as they waited for their ancestors’ spirits to dine on the offerings. Then, the family feasted. Her uncles chopped the pig into bite-size pieces to dip in hoisin sauce, and other relatives passed around small cartons of lemon tea. For the annual spring holiday of Qingming, known as Tomb Sweeping Day in English, extended families gather to honor the departed, clean ancestors’ graves and feed their spirits in a Chinese folk practice that dates back 2,500 years. Celebrated on April 5 this year, it is observed by the Chinese and the Chinese diaspora throughout the world. But the act of sweeping tombs is becoming obsolete as the tombs themselves are being … [Read more...] about Where Feeding the Dead Is a Fading Tradition
Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment
In Wakanda, the techno-brilliant African nation of the Marvel film “Black Panther,” black warrior women don’t wear wigs. Compelled to conceal her shaved head to carry off an undercover mission, General Okoye, played by Danai Gurira, calls her flowing wig “a disgrace” and discards it the instant she draws her spear to battle the bad guys. The general and her royal guard of female combatants, the Dora Milaje warriors, are among a cast of characters graced with gorgeous natural hairstyles that imbue this film with the visual power of holistic black beauty. The movie weds a Black Nationalist aesthetic to an ethos of global kinship. It projects a resilience that captures the mood of our present moment. Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets. And with it, black hair in its natural state of sublime uprightness has returned as a symbol of political … [Read more...] about Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment
And You Thought Your Family Had Problems
THE NEW EARTH , by Jess Row Officially, there is no hall of fame for unhappy families. But even the staunchest Russian novelist might be hard pressed to match the particular gift for dysfunction that the Wilcoxes, subjects of Jess Row’s sprawling metafiction “The New Earth,” display with such impressive esprit de corps across nearly 600 dense and often wildly discursive pages. Death and divorce are a given; immigration, climate change and crises of faith crowd the margins, clambering to compete with a thousand-year conflict in the Middle East. Incest eventually enters the chat, an assiduous but uninvited guest, and race hovers over it all, a quivering question mark. (The impetus for everything, naturally, is a wedding.) It’s all richly imagined, reflexively neurotic and frequently quite dazzling. It’s also more than a single book, even one guided by a keen and careful hand, can adequately contain: a Gordian knot of domestic melodrama, global politics and high-flying philosophy … [Read more...] about And You Thought Your Family Had Problems
The Lonely Death of George Bell
To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . They found him in the living room, crumpled up on the mottled carpet. The police did. Sniffing a fetid odor, a neighbor had called 911. The apartment was in north-central Queens, in an unassertive building on 79th Street in Jackson Heights. The apartment belonged to a George Bell. He lived alone. Thus the presumption was that the corpse also belonged to George Bell. It was a plausible supposition, but it remained just that, for the puffy body on the floor was decomposed and unrecognizable. Clearly the man had not died on July 12, the Saturday last year when he was discovered, nor the day before nor the day before that. He had lain there for a while, nothing to announce his departure to the world, while the hyperkinetic city around him hurried on with its business. Neighbors had last seen him six days earlier, a Sunday. On Thursday, there was a break in his routine. The … [Read more...] about The Lonely Death of George Bell
