For months, Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council have fought over which city services to prioritize in negotiations over the city’s $100 billion-plus budget. Now, as the budget deadline approaches on Friday, a deal is near, and city libraries appear to have been spared from cuts. Mr. Adams, a Democrat in his […]
As smoke from wildfires crosses state and international borders more frequently, tracking and studying it is increasingly important for shaping air quality and health measures around the world. An upcoming study from researchers at Stanford University offers a new way to trace far-flung smoke and pollution back to individual wildfires of origin. What’s burning in […]
Nearly 11 years to the day after Laurie Kanyok ran out of her gynecologist’s office in Manhattan and reported him for sexual assault, she stood in front of him in a federal court yet again. The 4,016 days since she had called the police on June 29, 2012, to tell them about Robert A. Hadden […]
A tropical storm that formed off the coast of Mexico rapidly intensified on Wednesday to become Hurricane Adrian, the first named storm of the hurricane season in the eastern Pacific region this year. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour and was moving west at eight m.p.h. Wednesday morning, according to […]
In the world’s largest wetland, humans are sparse. But this old river boat attracts just about all of them. There are the Mormon missionaries, the former Mormon missionaries turned Instagram influencers, the prisoners and the police, and hundreds more who rely on this boat as their ferry, supermarket, freight shipper and bar. Supported by The […]
After his 23-foot rowboat lost battery power in mid-May as he tried to circle the globe, Aaron Carotta spent more than a month at the mercy of ocean currents that pulled him across the Pacific. Then, when a giant wave knocked his vessel upside down, he inflated a leaky life raft and immediately activated an […]
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll answer one of your questions about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from a few weeks ago. We’ll also find out why Mayor Eric Adams says public school students should take a deep breath. And another. And another. In April, we asked what you would do about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — […]
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the bishop of Knoxville, Tenn., the Vatican announced on Tuesday. The resignation of Bishop Richard F. Stika comes after two years of turmoil in the small diocese in East Tennessee, where the bishop has been sued for his handling of sexual misconduct allegations, and faced internal criticism of […]
Many of the bills denied certain medical care to transgender people, while others targeted bathroom use and preferred personal pronouns. By Adeel Hassan Adeel Hassan read through dozens of state laws and spoke with law professors about the implications of the new legislation. Statehouses around the country this year have been consumed by fights over […]
Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in a cell with a bedsheet tied around his neck in 2019, died by suicide, not foul play — following a cascade of negligence and mismanagement at the now-shuttered federal jail in Manhattan where he was housed, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. The inspector general, who released […]