Roman Kent, who as an orphaned teenager endured the horrors of Auschwitz and other hellish camps and later channeled his sorrow and rage into helping to lead an American movement to memorialize the Holocaust and provide reparations for aging Jewish survivors, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 92. His death was […]
Former president Donald Trump has revealed plans to hold a number of campaign-style rallies this summer as speculation builds over a potential return to the White House for the 74-year-old. The Republican, having only left office in January, has gone on record several times since the end of his presidency saying that he’s ‘beyond serious’ […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Mostly sunny today, with a high in the low 80s. Over the weekend, mixed sun and clouds, with a chance of afternoon storms and highs around 90. Alternate-side parking: In effect until May 31 (Memorial Day). An arrangement of homemade signs, […]
This phase of the pandemic, when adults can be vaccinated but young children cannot, is confusing for many families. By Claire Cain Miller, Margot Sanger-Katz and Kevin Quealy As vaccinated Americans return to many parts of their prepandemic lives this summer, one group will be left out: children under 12, who cannot yet be vaccinated. So […]
The coronavirus was just beginning to spread in New York City in March 2020 when Raymond Copeland, 46, a trash hauler from Queens, developed a cough after a rainy day on his garbage route. Soon he had flulike symptoms, then difficulty breathing. Mr. Copeland was hospitalized and died in April, becoming the first known sanitation […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari. “We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” the company said […]
The federal authorities have confiscated 69 big cats from an Oklahoma animal park run by Jeffrey Lowe, the man who took control of an exotic-animal complex at the center of the popular Netflix documentary “Tiger King,” the Justice Department announced on Thursday. Prosecutors said in a 52-page affidavit that they believed a jaguar, seven lions, […]
A man allegedly hammered a 7-year-old boy to death and then proceeded to stab the child’s mother. Rashad Akeem Thompson, 34, was arrested in March in connection with the death of Tre’Shaun Brown and his mother Felicia Brown, 24, who survived. ‘I just lost it,’ Thompson reportedly told police in Beckley, West Virginia. Felicia’s neighbor […]
Every morning, schoolchildren in Texas recite an oath to their state that includes the words, “I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God.” Now, a flurry of proposed measures that could soon become law would promote even greater loyalty to Texas in the state’s classrooms and public spaces, as Republican lawmakers try to […]
A man who was surveying land in a remote, wooded area of Alaska was viciously mauled by a big brown bear and is lucky to have escaped with his life. Allen Minish said he was inputting numbers into a GPS unit for a real estate agent when he noticed the burly creature prowling 30 feet […]