By Daniel E. Slotnik [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid-40s. It’ll be a wet weekend, near 50 on Saturday and cooler on Sunday. Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Purim. The number of New Yorkers testing positive for the coronavirus has […]
By Daniel E. Slotnik [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid-40s. It’ll be a wet weekend, near 50 on Saturday and cooler on Sunday. Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Purim. The number of New Yorkers testing positive for the coronavirus has […]
UNITED NATIONS — Never mind that Arora Akanksha has worked at the United Nations for only about four years, as an auditor recruited from an accounting firm. Put aside that at age 34, she has no diplomatic experience. And forget that she is less than half as old as the incumbent she wants to replace, […]
UNITED NATIONS — Never mind that Arora Akanksha has worked at the United Nations for only about four years, as an auditor recruited from an accounting firm. Put aside that at age 34, she has no diplomatic experience. And forget that she is less than half as old as the incumbent she wants to replace, […]
DEL RIO, Texas — Surrounded by ranch land, towering mesquite trees and acres of thorny brush, the border city of Del Rio can feel like the definition of rural Texas. Residents said they have long felt alienated from the state’s power centers and bewildered by the shifting approaches to immigration by their elected leaders in […]
An Oklahoma man who was released early from prison broke into a woman’s home this month, cut out her heart, cooked it and tried to feed it to his relatives — and then killed two of them, the authorities said this week. The man, Lawrence Paul Anderson, who has been charged with three counts of […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Joe Biden’s nominee for trade chief called on China to live up to the commitments in its trade pact with the United States – the strongest signal yet that the new administration plans to build on the accord brokered by its predecessor rather than scrap it. China “needs to deliver” […]
“Don’t we all kind of wish we could be breathtakingly selfish sometimes?” — The author Tori Telfer on female con artists In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Historically, the lives of male con artists have been well chronicled. Female con artists? Not so […]
MONTREAL — As Canadians nurse their pandemic blues by baking bread and pies with zeal, a mystery has engulfed the nation: Why is the country’s butter so hard and difficult to spread? In normal times, such a question might have remained the preserve of foodies, bakers and butter fanciers. But with Canadians across the land […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Donald Trump supporters who launched a deadly assault on the US Capitol last month have indicated they want to “blow up” the building and kill members of Congress, the acting chief of the Capitol Police said on Thursday (Feb 25). Threats suggest extremists could target the building during an address by President […]