NEW YORK – Singaporean film-maker Eunice Lau, who lives in New York, remembers the morning she was walking back to her hotel from work on a film project in Minneapolis some years ago. “I remember it was about 10.30am or 11am,” she tells The Straits Times. “So, broad daylight, downtown Minneapolis, walking from the federal […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in New York’s Queens borough Saturday (March 27) to demand an end to anti-Asian violence, part of a national day of action following deadly mass shootings at Asian-owned spas in Atlanta. Organisers held rallies in some 60 US cities including the Georgia metropolis along with San Francisco, […]
OHATCHEE, Ala. — The place where one home stood was nothing but cinder blocks and a bald patch of earth. The chicken coop had evaporated, leaving behind a pile of cracked eggs and a loose rooster. Metal siding was knotted around the trunks of trees and the grass was littered with splintered wood, clothes and […]
A dog named Clover is being hailed by Canadian media as a hero for helping her human, Haley Moore, survive a seizure that struck her suddenly during a walk. Moore was strolling through the Stittsville neighborhood of Ottawa on Tuesday when she seized and fell to the curb, CTV News reported. The incident was captured […]
One day, about a half-century ago, William Heiser Jr. came home from boarding school to find that his mother was gone. His father, William Sr., a former police officer, told him and his sister that their mother had walked out. “He just said she just packed up her stuff and left,” Mr. Heiser said, even […]
PUERTO CACHICAMO, Colombia — At 13, she left home to join the guerrillas. Now, at 15, Yeimi Sofía Vega lay in a coffin, killed during a military operation ordered by her government. Some of the youngest children in her town, Puerto Cachicamo, led her funeral procession, waving small white flags as they wound past the […]
SACRAMENTO — The University of Southern California on Thursday announced that it will pay more than $1.1 billion to the former patients of a campus gynecologist accused of preying sexually on hundreds of patients, marking what university officials called “the end of a painful and ugly chapter in the history of our university.” The staggering […]
The city may be only months from seeming like its old self. But the pandemic has changed many lives. Ofelia Becerra Díaz, pictured with her daughter, Culy, lost a sister to Covid-19.Credit…Sasha Maslov for The New York Times Supported by By Michael Wilson The old job, the old office, the old week — for many […]
New York State officials finalized a deal on Thursday to legalize recreational marijuana in the state, paving the way for a potential $4.2 billion industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs and become one of the largest markets in the country. Following several failed attempts, lawmakers in Albany struck an agreement with Gov. […]
The man charged with 10 counts of murder after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., is scheduled to appear in court for the first time on Thursday. Initial court appearances, like the one on Thursday, can often last less than five minutes. The judge will read the suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi […]