Protests in Kashmir after Indian forces kill five fighters

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Protests in Kashmir after Indian forces kill five fighters

At least five fighters have been killed by Indian forces in Shopian in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The killings, that took place on Sunday, triggered protests by residents in the area.

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The Associated Press news agency quoted Indian army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia as saying that army and police surrounded a village in the southern Shopian area after being informed that some rebels were hiding there.

An exchange of gunfire led to the killing of the five fighters, Kalia said. Residents told AP that troops destroyed at least one house with explosives.

Protests and clashes followed as hundreds of residents tried to march to the site of the battle.

Chanting slogans demanding an end to India’s occupation of Kashmir, demonstrators threw stones at police and paramilitary soldiers, who fired shotgun pellets and tear gas.

No casualties were immediately reported in the clashes.

India has stepped up its operations across Kashmir in recent months.

Anti-India clashes after soldiers kill man in Kashmir

Police said 73 rebels have been killed in the Muslim-majority Kashmir this year.

In April alone, more than two dozen rebels and about a dozen Indian troops were killed, the most in any month since August 2019, when India revoked the region’s semi-autonomous status and statehood and imposed direct federal rule.

Since 1989, Kashmir’s rebel groups have fought for decades for the region’s independence or its merger with Pakistan, resulting in nearly 70,000 deaths, mostly civilians.

India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the anti-India rebels. Pakistan denies this, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support to the rebels and to Kashmiri civilians who oppose Indian rule.


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Back to the grind: historic mills boosted by flour shortage during Covid-19 lockdown

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Back to the grind: historic mills boosted by flour shortage during Covid-19 lockdown

A glance at social media is enough to confirm the craze: the lockdown has turned many Brits into amateur bakers, many of whom proudly show off their sourdough loaves or banana bread.

With a shortage of flour at supermarkets, many shoppers have turned to traditional local mills to get their fix, leaving the mills struggling to meet demand, while ancient dormant mills grind back into life.



Karl Grevatt, the owner of Charlecote Mill. Photograph: Shashika Poopalasingham

Orders have been “off the scale” says Karl Grevatt, 38, the owner of Charlecote Mill, perched on the banks of River Avon, north-east of Stratford-upon-Avon. “It’s still a bit mad,” he says.

“It is a combination of locals all ordering at the same time, new inquiries, old customers coming back to the mill. I’ve had a lot of inquiries from all over the UK which I can’t deal with. We got up to a seven-week waiting list, I’ve got that down to around four weeks. I’m working on orders from the end of April at the moment”.


The Warwickshire mill was built in about 1752 and restored in the late 1970s. Working in an old building with old technology has its limitations. “It does need to rest, it’s working very hard at the moment,” Grevatt said. He is also battling low water levels in the river, following the dry weather during May, which has slowed the mill.

Helped by Shashika Poopalasingham, a volunteer, Grevatt is milling about three tonnes of flour a week, producing almost double the usual amount, which he delivers in the afternoons to local customers. Despite the surge in demand, he has decided not to increase his prices during the pandemic.





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Charlecote Mill. Photograph: Handout

The Traditional Corn Millers Guild, which represents about 35 traditional mills across the UK from Orkney to south-west England, hopes demand will continue beyond the coronavirus crisis.

“One of our hopes is that people who have started to use traditionally milled flour stick with us in whatever the new normal is,” says Simon Dodd, the guild’s secretary, who works at Worsbrough Mill near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

“We know where our wheat comes from, often we know the farmers who have grown the wheat, and because most of the flour is freshly milled, it does its job really well,” he says.

The guild’s members are reporting between 200% and 500% extra flour production during the last few months, but Dodd warns that traditional milling has a “speed limit”.

Despite scaling up production, traditional mills are unlikely to trouble commercial millers, which produce flour for bakeries and food manufacturing, and account for about 99% of UK production.

Demand for traditionally milled flour has also triggered the restart of some mills.

The community group behind the Warwick Bridge Corn Mill near Carlisle was not due to start milling flour until mid-June, but local demand during the lockdown accelerated its plans.





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The Warwick Bridge Corn Mill was not due to start flour production until mid-June. Photograph: Handout

“People were getting in touch, saying when is the flour going to be produced?” says Phil Healy, a retired accountant and chair of the community benefit society behind the mill’s revival.

There has been a mill on the site since the ninth or 10th century, although flour production stopped more than 30 years ago, and the society was finalising lease negotiations when the coronavirus hit.

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High demand during the pandemic has also brought some inconveniences – the group has had to pause its plans to build a bakery on the site and therefore will not hit its immediate profit targets.

However, the society says demand for flour has brought welcome publicity, which it hopes will attract the last few investors needed to fund the project.

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Coronavirus Outbreak: Sanford Health to help PGA Tour with COVID-19 testing beginning at Charles Schwab Challenge – Firstpost

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Coronavirus Outbreak: Sanford Health to help PGA Tour with COVID-19 testing beginning at Charles Schwab Challenge – Firstpost

As many as 400 tests each week with results have been made available in a matter of two to four hours by a mobile testing unit, which will travel with the events on the PGA Tour and is one of the major safety nets for golf that has been spread out as the sport prepares to resume this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas.

The Sanford Health team, which will accompany each mobile testing unit will be one of the busiest groups each week for the next few months, as the PGA Tour takes on the COVID challenge while rebooting the Tour in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Charles Schwab Challenge heralds the comeback of the PGA Tour after a 12-week hiatus due to COVID-19.

Sanford Health, designated the ‘Official COVID-19 On-site Testing Provider’, has been a partner as a sponsor of the Sanford International on the PGA Tour Champions (Senior Tour). Now it has been engaged to conduct on-site COVID-19 testing of players, caddies and essential personnel on the PGA TOUR, the PGA TOUR Champions and Korn Ferry Tour in the continental United States.

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Each swab collection takes less than five minutes to administer and test results are returned typically between two and four hours, with approximately 400 individuals expected to be tested on-site each week.

The testing will be conducted by lab technicians who will be travelling to tournaments in one of three mobile testing units that Sanford Health is deploying across the country.

Each unit will be manned by a driver and three technicians and will arrive on Saturday prior to the tournament to begin processing RT PCR tests. The mobile unit will remain on-site through Thursday before travelling to the next closest tournament site, regardless of Tour.

“With health and safety being our No 1 priority upon our return to competition, we are extremely pleased to partner with Sanford Health and to utilize their expertise in testing our players, caddies and personnel going forward,” said Andy Levinson, PGA TOUR Senior Vice President Tournament Administration.

“Not only will Sanford Health’s mobile laboratories enable us to deliver test results in a matter of hours so that our athletes can properly prepare for competition, but they will also allow us to implement our testing program without utilizing critical resources from the communities in which we play, which was of utmost importance to us.”

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Colin Kaepernick: Timeline of a gesture and its echoes – Sportsnet.ca

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Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on the sideline at games during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality.

Soon after, he was gone from the NFL, and he has not played since. Here’s a timeline of Kaepernick’s pro football and post-NFL days since he first kneeled during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Aug. 26, 2016: During the anthem before a Packers-49ers preseason game, Kaepernick sits on the San Francisco bench. Kaepernick says he sat because the country “oppresses black people and people of colour.” His action does not attract immediate national attention. He mentions that he had earlier not stood for the anthem.

Aug. 27, 2016: Kaepernick’s sitdown begins drawing headlines. Some condemn him for dishonouring the flag and country. Others applaud his motives. The NFL says players are encouraged but not required to stand for the anthem.

Aug. 30, 2016: Former NFL player and ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer suggests to Kaepernick to kneel rather than sit during the anthem.

Sept. 1, 2016: Kaepernick kneels before a road game against the Chargers and says he will donate $1 million to organizations supporting his aims.

Sept. 5, 2016: President Barack Obama defends Kaepernick’s protest, saying it is his constitutional right.

Sept. 7, 2016: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he “doesn’t necessarily agree with what (Kaepernick) is doing,” but supports players who seek changes in society.

Sept. 11, 2016: On the first full day of the regular season, several players kneel during the anthem.

Sept. 12, 2016: Kaepernick and safety Eric Reid kneel before the 49ers’ home game against the Rams. Kaepernick is rehabbing a knee injury and doesn’t play.

Sept. 27, 2016: After criticism from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Kaepernick responds: “He always says make America great again. Well, America has never been great for people of colour. That’s something that needs to be addressed. Let’s make America great for the first time.”

Oct. 16, 2016: Kaepernick returns as 49ers starter in a 45-16 loss at Buffalo and remains the starter the rest of the season.

Jan. 1, 2017: Kaepernick plays his final NFL game, a 25-23 loss to Seattle.

March 3, 2017: His stint with the 49ers, who planned to cut him, ends as Kaepernick opts out of his contract.

Aug. 25, 2017: Although several teams have shown moderate interest in Kaepernick, he gets no contract offers. Supporters say team owners are blackballing him, and a group rallies outside NFL headquarters in Manhattan.

Sept. 10, 2017: Without Kaepernick in the league, players still kneel during the anthem.

Sept. 26, 2017: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones locks arms and kneels with his players before the anthem but stand while it’s played.

Oct. 15, 2017: Kaepernick files a grievance against NFL team owners, citing collusion to keep him out of the league.

Dec. 31, 2017: NFL season ends with Kaepernick unemployed.

April 18, 2018: As part of their collusion claim, Kaepernick and his representatives depose Goodell and a variety of NFL owners and executives, including Jones.

May 23, 2018: NFL owners approve a rule banning kneeling during the anthem. Players have the option to stay in the locker room. President Trump applauds the rule. NFL owners soon retract the rule because of its divisiveness.

Sept. 3, 2018: As the regular season approaches without Kaepernick again, Nike makes the quarterback the focal point of its sports advertising campaign. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt.” There are calls for boycotting Nike as well as praise for the apparel company.

Sept. 9, 2018: A second straight season begins with Kaepernick not on a roster, but with some players still kneeling during the anthem.

Sept. 26, 2018: Reid, a free agent, finally finds a team, the Carolina Panthers, and is congratulated on social media by Kaepernick.

Dec. 30, 2018: The regular season ends. Kaepernick remains without an NFL offer.

Feb. 15, 2019: The NFL reaches settlements with Kaepernick and Reid on collusion grievances. Monetary figures are not disclosed.

Aug. 8, 2019: Eyeing an NFL job, Kaepernick sends social media message to teams that includes a video of him working out.

Sept. 8, 2019: The third consecutive full opening day of an NFL season without Kaepernick.

Nov. 18, 2019: Finally, a workout with NFL teams, but chaos ensues. Kaepernick moves the session in Atlanta, contending the league was not transparent in how it would be run, who would attend and who would be liable for potential injuries. A limited number of teams make it to the workout. Says Kaepernick: “We all know why. I came out there and showed it today in front of everybody. Stop running from the truth. Stop running from the people.”

Dec. 29, 2019: The season ends with Kaepernick unsigned.

Feb. 13, 2020: Kaepernick announces he will write a memoir, though he still wants to play football.

May 29, 2020: Sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis pressed a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes, Kaepernick offers support to nationwide protesters. “We have the right to fight back! Rest in power George Floyd.”

May 30, 2020: The NFL’s statement on Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests mentions Kaepernick’s demonstrations during the anthem.

June 4, 2020: Many of Kaepernick’s supporters within the league release a video urging the NFL to denounce racism and further promote social justice.

June 5, 2020: In a video, Goodell apologizes to players for not listening to them earlier. He encourages them to protest peacefully and denounces racism. He says the league will be part of “how we can improve and go forward for a better and more united NFL family.”

June 5, 2020: Trump reiterates his criticism of Kaepernick after New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees apologizes for comments about protesters’ goals: The president says on Twitter the player “should not have taken back his original stance on honouring our magnificent American Flag. OLD GLORY is to be revered, cherished, and flown high… We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart. There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag – NO KNEELING!”



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Here are the American sectors the jobs are coming back in

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Here are the American sectors the jobs are coming back in

From retail to restaurants across America, people are returning to their old jobs or finding new ones. Here are the occupations that reported the most gains:

Restaurants and bars added back nearly 1.4 million jobs in May as they reopened across the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While restaurants and bars were classified by states as essential businesses that could operate on takeout and delivery only, many still closed down during stay-at-home orders. Some businesses found it hard, or economically unfeasible to adopt that model, or had other public health concerns.

Construction workers

A Construction worker takes care of traffic as a new tower is built.

Another industry that saw gains was the construction sector, where the number of jobs increased by 464,000 in May, gaining back nearly half of what they lost in April. Construction activity is part of the first phase of reopening and many projects are resuming work.

Retail workers

Social distancing spots are marked on the floor inside of the Aviator Nation clothing store.
In retail, 367,800 jobs returned, with clothing stores seeing the largest gains. Gap announced in May it would reopen 800 stores, including Old Navy, Gap (GPS), Banana Republic and Athleta brand stores.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said this week that the company hired more than 300,000 associates in the US starting in March, most of them temporary workers, to help “relieve some of the burden faced by” current store workers and give those who lost jobs more opportunities.

Factory workers

Surgical masks are made out of spunbond polypropylene fabric.

Factory jobs have also made a comeback, as they fit into phase one of the reopening. The manufacturing industry added 225,000 jobs.

That’s good news for an industry that saw its largest drop in production in March since 1946. Auto, aircraft and other factories stopped work to keep workers safe from the pandemic.

Dentists

Dentist Dr. Kathleen Saturay wears additional protective equipment, including a face shield and disposable mask over a respirator mask, as she works with a patient in Seattle.

While hospitals and other essential medical services stayed open, dentists closed their offices, seeing only patients who required urgent care.

Health care hires jumped significantly in May, boosted by the reopening of dental offices reopening, which added 244,800 jobs.

“This news is certainly encouraging for the economy and the dental industry but is also important in that patients are returning with trust and confidence in their clinician and understand the link between good oral health and overall body health,” said Pat Bauer, president and CEO of Heartland Dental, which supports over 1,000 dental practices in the US. The company estimates those dental offices have added nearly 6,000 jobs, all of them employees returning from furloughs.

Delivery and laundry workers

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Meanwhile, personal and laundry services added 182,300 jobs. That category includes any food delivery workers who are classified as employees but it doesn’t count contractors, such as Postmates and Uber Eats part-timers or some Amazon drivers. Laundry is considered an essential business and some that closed out of caution have now reopened.

Janitors

A janitor walks through Brookfield Plaza, a shopping mall in Manhattan's Financial District.
As businesses sanitize their facilities to keep the virus from spreading, janitorial services are more important than ever. Services to buildings and dwellings added 68,400 jobs last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CNN Business’ Anneken Tappe contributed to this report.

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India’s Reliance says Abu Dhabi Investment Authority invests $752 million in digital unit

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India’s Reliance says Abu Dhabi Investment Authority invests $752 million in digital unit

A woman rides her scooter past advertisements of Reliance Industries’ Jio telecoms unit, in Ahmedabad, India, July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries said on Sunday that the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will buy 1.16% of its digital unit Jio Platforms for 56.83 billion rupees ($752 million).

ADIA’s investment in Jio Platforms, which comprises Reliance’s telecoms arm Jio Infocomm and its music and video streaming apps, gives the unit an enterprise value of 5.16 trillion rupees, Reliance said in a regulatory filing.

Reliance, controlled by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, has now sold just over 21% of Jio Platforms to investors including Facebook Inc, securing nearly $13 billion in less than seven weeks.

On Friday, Abu Dhabi’s state fund Mubadala Investment Co announced it would purchase a 1.85% stake in Jio Platforms for 90.93 billion rupees.

“The rapid growth of the (Jio) business, which has established itself as a market leader in just four years, has been built on a strong track record of strategic execution,” Hamad Shahwan Aldhaheri, executive director in ADIA’s private equities department, said in a statement.

With estimated assets of nearly $700 billion, ADIA is chaired by the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, while its deputy chairman is Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

With more than 376 million users, Jio Infocomm is India’s biggest telecoms firm by subscribers. Since entering the market in 2016 with free voice service and cut-price data it has forced out several rivals and driven consolidation in the sector.

Ambani has always pitched Jio as a tech company instead of a traditional mobile carrier, often saying publicly that “data is the new oil”.

Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal; Editing by Jason Neely and Catherine Evans

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Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor step out for a walk with son Taimur, see pictures

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Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor step out for a walk with son Taimur, see pictures 

A day after Kareena Kapoor Khan’s jogging pictures went viral, the actress has now been spotted with husband and actor Saif Ali Khan and their son Taimur Ali Khan. The trio stepped out for a walk on Sunday reportedly around Mumbai’s Marine Drive area and, now their picture res have made their way to the internet. In the pictures, Saif Ali Khan can be seen in a white kurta while holding son Taimur’s hand. The little munchkin looks cute as a button in the photos.

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Saif Ali Khan with son Taimur

Meanwhile, style diva Kareena Kapoor looks graceful as ever in a long black maxi dress. Keeping in mind the comfort factor, the Veere Di Wedding actress chose white sneakers to go with her outfit.

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While some fans are delighted to see their favorite couple and cute little Taimur after ages, some netizens have pointed out that “it’s not safe to walk outside without any masks.”

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Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan have been keeping themselves busy during the lockdown. The actress recently shared glimpses of Taimur’s paintings. She also shared a session of Saif and Taimur planting saplings in pots.

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Colin Powell will vote for Joe Biden, says Trump has ‘drifted away’ from the Constitution

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Colin Powell will vote for Joe Biden, says Trump has ‘drifted away’ from the Constitution
Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticised the President’s response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.

“We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it,” Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.

Colin Powell. (AP)

The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump’s strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

Powell said he’s “proud” of what a number of former generals, admirals and diplomats have said about Trump’s response last week to the widespread protests, adding that he hadn’t released a public statement denouncing Trump’s response because he felt he had demonstrated his displeasure with Trump in 2016 when he voted against him.

He also said that he’ll vote for Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, choosing again not to vote for Trump for president.

“I certainly cannot in any way support President Trump this year,” Powell, a Republican, told Tapper.

The retired general voted for Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in 2016, and hacked emails released in September of that year showed Powell strongly condemning Trump, labelling him a “national disgrace and an international pariah.”

Powell said Sunday that he is “very close to Joe Biden on a social matter and on a political matter.”

“I worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him,” he continued.

Asked by Tapper if he would be campaigning for Biden, Powell said he hadn’t been asked to do so and that he doesn’t think he will be.

“Campaigning is not my strong suit, and I will be speaking for him, but I don’t plan to make campaign trips,” he said.

Tensions between the White House and Pentagon have stretched to near a breaking point over President Donald Trump’s threat to use military force against street protests triggered by George Floyd’s death. (AP)

The former diplomat said Sunday that the recent widespread protests over the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis and Trump’s strongman approach to the unrest is evidence of a growing opposition to his presidency.

“I think what we’re seeing now, this massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we’re not going to put up with it anymore,” Powell told Tapper.

Last week, Trump’s former Defence Secretary, James Mattis, said in a blistering statement that Trump “does not even pretend to try” to unite the country and is instead engaged in a “deliberate effort” to divide the country, while lacking “mature leadership.”

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly similarly blasted the President’s response to the protests, saying Friday that he agreed with Mattis’ assessment and that he thinks there’s an “awful big concern that the partisanship has gotten out of hand, the tribal thing has gotten out of hand.”

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Good morning. It is the birthday of the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who died 20 years ago at the age of 83. You should celebrate it by reading “The Bean Eaters,” from 1963, a poem that ends in a stanza of stark beauty:

And remembering…

Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,

As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

Sit with that for a while, and maybe you could pay tribute to the couple in the poem with a dinner of beans yourself. We’ve got a load of recipes for those, and some smart bird’s-eye-view instruction on the subject of cooking beans in general. So, perhaps Aaron Hutcherson’s creamy white bean and fennel casserole? Or Tejal Rao’s beans and garlic toast in broth (above)? Or Julia Moskin’s best black bean soup?

These weeks run long, so don’t just plan for what to cook tonight. Think about what’s ahead, and how you might plan for it — planning is both trickier during the pandemic (groceries are hard) and a little easier, too (a lot of us are still hunkered down at home all day, at work or out of it, with plenty of time to cook).

So on Monday, say, you could make Alexa Weibel’s vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas.

And on Tuesday, Yewande Komolafe’s sheet-pan gochujang chicken with roasted vegetables.

Wednesday, if you plan it right and make the dough today, allow it to cold-proof in the fridge and develop a little tang: the green and white pizza, from Roberta’s in Brooklyn.

On Thursday, what do you make of the idea of this Southwestern-style oven-braised chicken from the chef Edna Lewis, who shared it with The Times in 1989? It’s bonkers with a mess of thighs in place of a whole bird, bone-in or boneless.

And on Friday, to round out the week, chef’s choice. I’d like to go with a pile of steamed clams with jalapeño butter. (Let that butter go brown in the heat, and it adds an awesome nuttiness.) But you may prefer meatballs in the style of Rao’s in New York, or Sue Li’s black pepper beef and cabbage stir-fry, or Tejal’s toor dal.

Thousands and thousands of recipes are waiting for you on NYT Cooking. A lot more of them than usual are free to use even if you aren’t yet a subscriber to our site and apps. But I’ll ask you anyway: Would you think about subscribing? Your subscription allows our work to continue.

And should anything go wrong along the way? We are standing by to help. Just write: cookingcare@nytimes.com. We will get back to you.

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D.C. mayor won’t play art critic

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Bowser said on ABC’s “This Week” that she was proud of the mural: “It is an affirmative piece of art, a centering piece of art where people from around the globe have called us and thanked us for acknowledging black humanity and black lives in the most important city in the world.”

Co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked, “But will you take out the part that says defund police?”

“Well, it’s not a part of the mural, and we certainly encourage expression, but we are using the city streets for city art,” Bowser said.

“In other words, that will go away. You will paint over that?” Raddatz pressed.

Bowser replied, “I actually haven’t even had an opportunity to review it, Martha, but we — the response that we’ve gotten from people about the black lives matter … mural has just been incredible.”

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he understood the sentiment and substance behind the “Defund the Police” slogan.

“While it’s not a slogan I’ll use, if people just dismiss it and don’t get deeper into the substance — as I said earlier, it is not a mark of a beloved community to prey upon the most vulnerable in your society,” said Booker, a former mayor of Newark, N.J.

Bowser on Friday had “Black Lives Matter” painted to invoke the national movement combating the violence inflicted on black communities. An intersection near the White House, where federal law enforcement used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to clear a peaceful demonstration for a presidential photo-op, was also renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

But the Black Lives Matter D.C. chapter called the gestures “performative,” accusing Bowser of trying to distract from “her active counter-organizing to our demands,” which include reducing the city’s police budget and reinvesting the funds elsewhere. On Saturday, negative comments were spray-painted on or near it, such as “This ‘Mural’ Ain’t Doing Shit.”

“Bowser has consistently been on the wrong side of BLMDC history. This is to appease white liberals while ignoring our demands,” the chapter tweeted Friday.



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