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Today — 29 June 2024News

What is queer food? We asked LGBTQ foodies and chefs to define it

29 June 2024 at 06:00
NBC News talked to academics, chefs and the founders of LGBTQ potlucks about queer food, including what it means and how the term has evolved over time.

© Jaenam Yoo for NBC News

© Queer Food Conference

The Queer Food Conference held at Boston University in April.

© Ali Levin

Queer Soup Night now has 13 active chapters across the country.

© Madison Lane

Proceeds from PLAY, a new queer cookbook zine, will benefit two LGBTQ nonprofits.

© Olivia LiCalzi

PLAY features a selection of recipes from LGBTQ chefs.

How Does Bird Flu Spread in Cows? Experiment Yields Some ‘Good News.’

29 June 2024 at 05:04
Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained.

© Arin Yoon for The New York Times

Researchers have long known that influenza viruses can infect mammary cells in cow udders and can be shed in milk. But they had never seen an epidemic of cow flu like the one this year.

The far right is on the rise ahead of elections in France. Here’s what you need to know.

France is on the cusp of voting in a far-right government for the first time since World War II, as the national mood appears to be souring on President Emmanuel Macron’s brand of mainstream centrism and lurching toward fiery anti-establishment populism.

© Thibault Camus

Macron will remain president after the snap election.

© Jeff Pachoud

Marine Le Pen and her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, listen to a speech during the 15th congress of the far-right National Front in Lyon, France, in 2014.

© Dimitar Dilkoff

Jordan Bardella prior to the start of a debate in Paris on June 27.

© Julie de Rosa

Gabriel Attal addresses deputies at the National Assembly in Paris on June 5.

Israeli war’s latest phase may reckon with tension between dismantling Hamas and rescuing hostages

28 June 2024 at 17:00
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had signaled a hift in the way Israel wages its war in the Gaza Strip: a new and less intense “phase” in the fighting.

© Ashraf Amra

Palestinian civilians watch as Israeli tanks and heavy-duty machines are deployed along a road in Gaza.

© Ohad Zwigenberg

Relatives and friends of hostages held by Hamas at a rally calling for their release in Tel Aviv.
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