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But we also have partners who are working hard across the city that are seeing lines go for several blocks that are calling us up at our warehouse and asking for more food because they have more people.” “Out of this kitchen, daily, we’re sending out between 808 and 850 meals per day, Monday through Friday.

Once a month, Dominga Espino, 59, heads from her job as a home health aide in Harlem to a nearby food pantry to pick up groceries for her family in the Bronx.

Ms. Espino is one of 1.6 million New Yorkers who receive food assistance from the Food Bank for New York City.

At the same time, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages have complicated the systems used to distribute food to needy families.

From a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bronx, staff members at the Food Bank for New York City sort, package and ship food to more than 800 soup kitchens and pantries across the five boroughs.

The Masbia Soup Kitchen Network, which operates three locations in Brooklyn and Queens, has found creative solutions, like ordering prepackaged produce to avoid having to manually sort produce in bulk, said Alexander Rapaport, the organization’s executive director.

At Community Kitchen and Pantry in Harlem, the pandemic has meant distributing more food with fewer volunteers.

The company in particular has drawn scrutiny for the services it provides to China’s efforts to track and suppress Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic minorities who live in a western Chinese region called Xinjiang.

Fed meeting: The Federal Reserve will announce the results of a two-day meeting, which starts on Tuesday, in which officials are expected to discuss whether the central bank should scale down measures to support the economy at a faster pace than earlier planned.

Retail sales: The Commerce Department is scheduled to publish its monthly report on spending, which has shown three consecutive months of increases.

Holmes trial: Closing arguments for the trial of the disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, are expected to begin.

The Bank of England is expected to decide whether to raise interest rates as the country braces for a new coronavirus surge because of the Omicron variant, while the E.C.B.

One of the tornadoes that roared through the Midwest on Friday plowed straight into an Amazon delivery station in Edwardsville, Ill.

It was initially unclear how many people had been at Amazon’s site and what safety measures could have been taken to minimize the loss of life.

The tornado struck at the busiest time for Amazon, which complicated the rescue effort in Edwardsville.

Mr. Wallace has been the face of its influential “Fox News Sunday” program, and he was the first anchor at the network to receive an Emmy Award nomination for his work.

An equal-opportunity interrogator of Democrats and Republicans, Mr. Wallace proved himself an outlier at times at Fox News, particularly in recent years when the network’s conservative opinion hosts closed ranks behind former President Donald J.

In his on-air remarks on Sunday, Mr. Wallace said that “the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a guest I booked or a question I asked, and they kept that promise.

Fed officials are expected to announce on Wednesday whether the central bank will slow down its monthly bond purchases at a faster pace than earlier planned.

The S&P 500 had climbed to a record on Friday, capping its best week since early February.

The Bank of England and the European Central Bank are set to meet to meet on Thursday to discuss whether to raise interest rates.

The deal is the latest in the pharmaceutical industry as big drug makers race to buy smaller rivals that focus on specialty treatments.

The deal comes after the Federal Trade Commission blocked Harry’s $1.37 billion sale to Schick parent Edgewell last year, over fears it would reduce competition in the shaving industry.

Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress and entrepreneur, was among the investors in a $200 million funding round for TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company that uses renewable energy, DealBook reports.

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