Stockton Rush, the chief executive and founder of OceanGate and the pilot of the Titan submersible, was declared dead on Thursday after his vessel was found in pieces at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, near the rusting wreck of the RMS Titanic. He was 61. Mr. Rush oversaw finances and engineering for OceanGate, a […]
A powerful storm struck the northern Texas town of Matador on Wednesday night, killing at least three people, damaging about a dozen buildings and prompting a search for people who might have been injured or trapped by debris, the authorities said. Matador, which has about 600 residents, is roughly 290 miles northwest of Dallas and […]
As search and rescue teams scour the North Atlantic for the missing submersible Titan, one overriding question may dictate the fate of the five passengers: How much oxygen is left? The submersible contains a finite amount of oxygen, with no way of generating more. Once it is consumed, passengers would be left without breathable air. […]
A Kansas man has been indicted on charges of threatening to commit violent attacks at a Pride event in Nashville this month, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man, Joshua Hensley, 25, commented on a sponsored Facebook post for Nashville Pride on April 26 and threatened to “make shrapnel pressure cooker bombs for this event” […]
Oisin Fanning, who made two deep-sea dives on the Titan last summer, said the passengers’ ability to survive on the missing submersible could depend on staying calm and avoiding panicked breathing that would use up more oxygen. The submersible was believed to be able to sustain its passengers for 96 hours — four days — […]
As his few remaining hours with a place to live ticked by last Thursday, Scott Alexander panhandled near a McDonald’s in Brattleboro, in southern Vermont, while running through a mental checklist of the supplies he would need for a move back into the woods nearby. He had a tent and sleeping bags for himself and […]
Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in September. By Claire Cain Miller, Alicia Parlapiano and Madeleine Ngo For two years, the United States has been effectively running an experiment in federally funding child care providers. The $24 billion disbursed in pandemic relief has been the […]
An Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary after breaking into a neighbor’s home and fatally shooting four people, including a minor, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man, Majorjon Kaylor, 31, of Kellogg, Idaho, was arrested on Sunday evening shortly after the shooting, according to a […]
After a series of assaults in the subways over the weekend — including a fatal stabbing of a man during a fight and attacks on three women who were slashed in the legs — the Police Department stepped up its presence in the system and arrested two men. The incidents were unrelated, but they came […]
A federal judge in Arkansas on Tuesday struck down the state’s law forbidding medical treatments for children and teenagers seeking gender transitions, blocking what had been the first in a wave of such measures championed by conservative lawmakers across the country. The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on […]