As Eric Adams ran for mayor of New York City, questions arose about inconsistencies centered on a Brooklyn apartment that he seemed to own, even though he said he had transferred it to his former girlfriend. The explanation was simple, Mr. Adams explained. His ex-girlfriend failed to file the proper paperwork cementing the deal. After […]
A bigger field in the G.O.P. primary could chip away at DeSantis’s chances of overtaking Trump. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Nate Cohn It’s been feeling a bit like 2016 lately. Back then, the opposition to […]
Mike Johnston, a former Colorado state senator buoyed by millions of dollars in outside spending, declared victory on Tuesday night in Denver’s mayoral election, beating out a candidate who had been vying to become the first woman to hold the office. As of 10 p.m., Mr. Johnston had pulled ahead with about 54 percent of […]
Good morning. We’ll look at what might have been behind the deaths of two more humpback whales off New York and New Jersey. We’ll also see why several hundred convictions are being thrown out in Manhattan. The Facebook post on the two whale deaths said the cause was “suspected blunt force trauma.” They were the […]
Columbia University announced on Tuesday that its undergraduate schools would no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the first major university to refuse to supply information to the influential undergraduate guide for students and parents. Columbia said it had become concerned about the “outsized influence” the rankings played in the undergraduate admissions […]
The News Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil’s election systems. If convicted, he would be ineligible to run for office for eight years. A panel of seven judges in Brazil’s electoral court will […]
As California’s housing crisis spiraled out of control in the 2010s, with rates of homelessness soaring and even affluent families struggling to buy Bay Area homes, a pro-housing movement was born. The State Legislature has since passed a raft of new laws aimed at removing obstacles to construction and making housing more affordable, including statewide […]
The actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who had been accused by a score of women of groping or forcibly kissing them, pleaded guilty last year to a single charge of kissing a woman without her consent. On Tuesday, he will face trial in a civil lawsuit that accuses him of rape, and it is expected to […]
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll meet two artists who observed World Environment Day with creations made from discarded plastics. We’ll also find out why a court-appointed official says the police anti-crime units are still stopping and frisking people illegally. For several years, the Israeli artist Beverly Barkat collected trash — plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic […]
It felt as if he had always been there, a steady sight on a busy corner in a college town. Hovering above 6 feet tall with hazel eyes and hair streaked with gray, David Breaux was a graduate of Stanford University and had been an aspiring screenwriter. But such details belonged to a past he […]