Eighteen people died in a massacre in a remote coca-growing region of Peru, the national police said, reviving memories of the country’s brutal left-wing insurgency, just weeks ahead of presidential elections. The murders, one of Peru’s worst atrocities in decades, occurred in the town of San Miguel del Ene, the head of national police, Gen. […]
For years, screens have replaced notebooks, keyboards have subbed in for pens and digital life has revolved around the printed word. But at a small school in Maine, cursive handwriting thrives, with two students recognized in a national contest last week for their skills crossing T’s and dotting I’s with precise and legible shape, size, […]
A former police officer in Minnesota was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for kicking a Black man who was on the ground being bitten by a police dog after police mistook him for an armed suspect from a street fight in 2016, according to the authorities and court documents. The former officer, […]
A massive beach party in Southern California that went viral on TikTok ended with nearly 150 revelers arrested. Police busted ‘Adrian’s Kickback’ in Huntington Beach on Saturday after declaring it an unlawful assembly of people. Authorities had the party on their radar since Friday. The event was organized by a TikTok user who used the […]
By Dana Goldstein and Kate Taylor As the coronavirus pandemic ebbs in the United States and vaccines become available for teenagers, school systems are facing the difficult choice of whether to continue offering a remote learning option in the fall. When Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City took a stance on Monday, saying […]
Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, Calif., has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes with […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden on Thursday (May 20) directed federal agencies to assess and mitigate the increasing and serious risks that climate change poses to individuals, businesses, the federal government and the US financial system, the White House said. Biden issued an executive order requiring development of a comprehensive government-wide climate-risk strategy within […]
Two jail guards charged with ignoring their duties the night Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and then lying about it have reached an agreement that could end the criminal case against them, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday. The guards, Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, had been accused of browsing the internet and […]
A Brooklyn man was charged with setting fire to a building housing a synagogue and a yeshiva, and federal prosecutors said on Saturday that it was the second time in less than a week that the man had sought to damage a religious institution. The man, Ali Alaheri, 29, was accused of carefully arranging and […]
In New York and New Jersey, the race is on to grow legal weed. In Orange County, N.Y., there are plans to build a large cannabis cultivation and processing plant on the grounds of a defunct state prison. About 25 miles south, over the border in New Jersey, an industrial complex once owned by the […]