Women who encounter Egypt's criminal justice system — as victims, witnesses or the accused — can face sexual abuse by state authorities. These women said they were stripped and violated by officials in police stations, prisons and hospitals. nyti.ms/3hgSgIK
Asmaa was arrested in 2018 for protesting a subway fare increase. Subsequently, she said, an inspector groped her in a police station, a doctor subjected her to a virginity test in front of others and a prison guard used her finger to penetrate her anally. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
Malak was arrested in 2019 for protesting government negligence after a deadly train crash. A trans woman, she was subjected to an invasive anal exam to determine whether she should be sent to a men's or women's prison. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
The treatment the women describe is illegal. But there's little they can do. Egyptian officials have denied and dismissed accounts of systemic abuse, and most women don’t report it because sexual assault victims are often shunned in Egypt.
This woman, a journalist who reported on sporadic unrest in Egypt, said she was stopped by plainclothes officers in 2018, blindfolded and driven away. She was accused of joining a terrorist organization and spreading false news. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
The woman said she was groped twice, during interrogation and while entering prison. After she was released, she smuggled herself out of Egypt, convinced she had no choice but to abandon the country that she says abandoned her. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
The women who face invasive searches and abuse by authorities are not only criminal suspects or activists. We spoke to two women and the lawyer for a third who said they were violated by state doctors after reporting a sexual assault. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
An Egyptian court ruled in 2011 that forced virginity tests “constitute a violation of women’s bodies and an assault on their human dignity.” But in August, Human Rights Watch reported that they were still being practiced. nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
The officials who oversee the police, prosecutors and prisons didn't respond to requests for comment. One police officer, however, acknowledged that sexual abuse by the authorities was “everywhere.” The aim, he said, was to "humiliate your humanity." nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
Fearing arrest and stigma, many of the women in this story spoke anonymously. But all described an elusive quest for justice, and struggled with one central question: How much of their truth is anyone willing to hear? nyti.ms/3hIeDpo
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The reactions from Republicans in Congress to Donald Trump’s documents indictment have ranged from the rare acknowledgments that he may have committed a crime to more extreme statements like comparing the U.S. to a dictatorship under Joe Biden. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Of the 271 Republicans in the House and Senate, more than half have issued statements or commented on social media about the indictment.
A small number have made statements about the indictment that did not immediately dismiss the investigation. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
At least 100 Republicans, from across the party’s ideological spectrum, have questioned the circumstances around the indictment, the timing of its release or a perceived unfairness in how the law has been applied. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
America’s fragmented electric grid, which was largely built to accommodate coal and gas plants, is becoming a major obstacle to efforts to fight climate change. nyti.ms/3p7DWJg
We often talk about the grid like a single, cohesive machine. But, in reality, there are three grids in the U.S — one in the West, one in the East and one in Texas — that only connect at a few points and share little power between them. nyti.ms/3p7DWJg
Those grids are further divided into a patchwork of operators with competing interests — a fractured system that makes it hard to build the long-distance power lines needed to transport wind and solar nationwide. nyti.ms/3p7DWJg
The relentless noisiness of daily life is more than annoying — it can have lasting effects on the body. Noise is an under-recognized health threat that increases the risk of hypertension, stroke and heart attacks. nyti.ms/3MYGtO1
The New York Times measured noise exposure in rural Mississippi, New York City, and suburban California and New Jersey, and consulted more than 30 scientists to examine how noise could take years off your life. nyti.ms/3MYGtO1
When unpleasant noise enters your body through your ears, it is relayed to the stress detection center in your brain, which triggers a cascade of reactions. Your nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems are among the areas negatively affected. nyti.ms/3MYGtO1
Trillions of dollars in family wealth are set to be passed down in the next few years — and the transfer will largely reinforce U.S. inequality. nyti.ms/3W312gr
Total family wealth in the U.S. has tripled since 1989, reaching $140 trillion in 2022.
Of the $84 trillion projected to be passed down from older Americans to millennial and Gen X heirs through 2045, $16 trillion will be transferred in the next decade. nyti.ms/3W312gr
The top 10% of households will be giving and receiving a majority of the wealth. The top 1% — with about as much wealth as the bottom 90%, — will dictate the broadest share of the money flow. The bottom 50% will account for 8% of transfers. nyti.ms/3W312gr
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s longtime incumbent leader, will head to a presidential election runoff for the first time in his career after falling short of the 50% needed to win in national elections on Sunday. nyti.ms/3M0eQ6G
Erdogan still had the most votes, including more than the opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, as of Monday. But the provinces that contain Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey’s two largest cities, voted for Kilicdaroglu after both voted for Erdogan in 2018. nyti.ms/3M0eQ6G
Erdogan appears to have the edge as he heads into the runoff. Even so, almost every part of the country shifted against him compared with the presidential election in 2018, according to preliminary results from a state news organization. nyti.ms/3M0eQ6G
A group of conservative operatives used robocalls to raise millions of dollars using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But a New York Times analysis shows that nearly all the money went to pay the callers and themselves. nyti.ms/42SaxkL
Since 2014, a group of nonprofits has pulled in $89 million from donors who were pitched on building political support for police officers, veterans and firefighters. But just 1% of the money was used to that end according to our findings. nyti.ms/3Ibq2w9
About 90% of the money the groups raised was simply sent back to their fund-raising contractors, to feed a self-consuming loop where donations were spent to find more donors. The contractors had no significant operations other than fund-raising. nyti.ms/3Ibq2w9