NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Teenagers keep all sorts of secrets from their parents. Drinking. Sex. Lousy grades. But the secret that Elizabeth, 17, a rising high school senior from New York City, keeps from hers is new to the buffet of adolescent misdeeds. She doesn’t want her parents to know that she is vaccinated against […]
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Philip Zyne peered over the balcony of his condo near Miami Beach around midday on Saturday and pointed to a large crack running in the parking lot below his unit. Normally, he might not have given it a moment’s thought. But Mr. Zyne, 71, lives at Champlain Towers North, the sister condo […]
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (REUTERS) – A hot-air balloon crashed in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, neighbourhood on Saturday (June 26), killing four people and critically injuring a fifth person, after apparently being blown into power lines by the wind and catching fire, police said. The pilot of the craft was among the dead, police said. The […]
Engineers warned about structural damage to a Miami apartment block three years before its collapse, it has emerged. The Champlain Towers South building in Surfside collapsed on Thursday, killing four people and prompting a search and rescue operation for the 159 people missing. And concern about building safety has prompted an audit, which will take […]
The U.S. region includes states with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, rivaling the South. Many factors are at work, experts say. By Dan Levin The Mountain West has emerged as one of the most vaccine-hesitant regions of the United States. Along with the South, it is lagging far behind the national […]
SOACHA, Colombia — Already, two of Gloria Vásquez’s children had dropped out of school during the pandemic, including her 8-year-old, Ximena, who had fallen so far behind that she struggled with the most basic arithmetic. “One plus one?” Ms. Vásquez quizzed her daughter one afternoon. “Four?” the little girl guessed helplessly. Now, Ms. Vásquez, a […]
SURFSIDE, Fla. — By the time yet another fire broke out amid the dusty wreckage of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo complex near Miami Beach on Friday, firefighters working with search-and-rescue crews in a desperate attempt to find survivors made an unusual decision: They would not immediately put the fire out. Crews were […]
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – Families and friends of the 159 people missing after the collapse of a condo building in a Miami suburb were clinging to hope on Friday (June 25) as rescue workers sifted through a mountain of debris for signs of life, having found four dead so far. Three more bodies were pulled […]
Derek Chauvin spoke directly to George Floyd’s family for the first time on Friday, telling them in brief remarks at his sentencing hearing that he wanted to “give my condolences” but that he could not say more because he still faced charges in Mr. Floyd’s death. “Due to some additional legal matters at hand, I’m […]
Former US police officer Derek Chauvin has been jailed for 22-and-a-half years for murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. Chauvin, 45, was convicted of second and third degree murder and manslaughter in April over a case that made global headlines and sparked protests. Video showed the white police officer had his knee on the […]