NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – After more than two years of sightseeing at an asteroid, a Nasa spacecraft is now heading home. Scientists cannot wait to get their hands on the souvenirs it is bringing back. Beginning about 4pm Eastern time Monday (4am Singapore time on May 11), the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, about 180 million miles (289 […]
Helmut Jahn, a German-born architect who designed buildings around the world but was most influential in his adopted hometown, Chicago, where he conceived of an extravagant downtown home to state government and the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare International Airport, died on Saturday in a traffic accident near the horse farm where he lived, in […]
In the weeks since a former campaign volunteer accused Scott M. Stringer of sexual misconduct, many of the Democratic mayoral candidate’s most crucial supporters, including the Working Families Party and a phalanx of progressive politicians, have abandoned his campaign. But powerful teachers’ unions are not only sticking with Mr. Stringer, the city comptroller — they […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The F.D.A. authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds in the U.S. The world may never reach herd immunity for Covid-19, experts say. Medical experts are pushing for a national lockdown in India as […]
In a narrowly divided Congress, an illness or a death could upend the balance of power and threaten an ambitious agenda. By Ian Prasad Philbrick On March 21, 1950, an Illinois congressman named Ralph Church suddenly slumped in his seat while testifying before a House committee. His colleagues rushed to administer aid, but he was […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The White House was working closely with top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline on Sunday (May 9) to help it recover from a ransomware attack that forced the company to shut a critical fuel network supplying populous eastern states. The attack is one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported […]
A man shot six people dead including his girlfriend at a family birthday party in Colorado. The shooter then turned the gun on himself after opening fire inside the trailer at a mobile home park in Colorado Springs shortly after midnight on Sunday. The gunman died in hospital. Children who were inside the trailer when their relatives […]
Former US President Barack Obama’s dog Bo has died after suffering from cancer. Obama and his wife Michelle shared the news of the pet’s death on Instagram, where both expressed sorrow at the passing of a dog the former president described as a ‘true friend and loyal companion.’ Barack Obama wrote: ‘He tolerated all the […]
Two brothers, 8 and 5, were removed from their Oklahoma elementary school classrooms this past week and made to wait out the school day in a front office for wearing T-shirts that read “Black Lives Matter,” according to the boys’ mother. The superintendent of the Ardmore, Okla., school district where the brothers, Bentlee and Rodney […]
Pauline Rojas’s high school in San Antonio is open. But like many of her classmates, she has not returned, and has little interest in doing so. During the coronavirus pandemic, she started working 20 to 40 hours per week at Raising Cane’s, a fast-food restaurant, and has used the money to help pay her family’s […]