For 20 years, New York City officials have discussed developing a compost program, and for a decade they have experimented with small-scale versions. Finally, last month, Mayor Eric Adams launched a citywide initiative to collect food scraps curbside, starting in Queens. Now, with the program scheduled to expand to the five boroughs by the end […]
Good morning. A comedy called “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” opens on Broadway tonight. We’ll ask two stars of the musical “Peter Pan” if things ever went wrong when they were onstage. We’ll also look at the fight between Mayor Eric Adams and progressive Democrats over the city budget. Things are supposed to go wrong in […]
The legal effort to ban mail-order abortion pills came along just as the fledgling telehealth industry became a more accepted and entrenched part of abortion care. This week, Hey Jane, one of more than a dozen virtual abortion providers that have no physical locations, began contracting with the insurers Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of […]
This year, 61 million visitors are expected to come to New York City. Among the best remembered will probably be the dozen or so members of the House Judiciary Committee who traveled to 26 Federal Plaza to participate in a field-trip hearing titled “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” an event to which actual Manhattan […]
The Wall Street Journal reporter charged with espionage in Russia is expected to appear in a Moscow court on Tuesday for a hearing to appeal his pre-trial detention, a case that has brought relations between the United States and Russia to a new low. The reporter, Evan Gershkovich, 31, was arrested by Russian security services […]
Two men were arrested early Monday on federal charges accusing them of conspiring to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China in connection with a police outpost operated in Manhattan’s Chinatown, officials announced in a news conference. The outpost, which court papers say was operated by Chinese security officials, is one of more […]
In suburban Houston, parents rose up against a top-rated school district, demanding an entirely new reading curriculum. At an elementary school in Hutchinson, Minn., a veteran teacher is crusading for reform, haunted by the fear that, for 28 years, she failed children because she was not trained in the cognitive science behind reading. And Ohio […]
Two people were dead and four others injured after a shooting at a park in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday night, the police said, the latest instance of gun violence just days after five people were fatally shot at a downtown bank in the city. The shooting at Chickasaw Park occurred around 9 p.m. as hundreds […]
A fire at a plastic resin plant in Brunswick, Ga., on Saturday prompted officials to issue an evacuation order for people within half of a mile of the facility, the authorities said, as billows of dark smoke rose and spread through the city. The Brunswick Fire Department and Glynn County Fire Rescue responded to the […]
New York City’s storefront businesses, already weathering inflation and an uneven recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, are also contending with what the police say is a dramatic increase in shoplifting. But statistics also reveal a startling reality: A relative handful of shoplifters are responsible for an outsize percentage of retail crime. Nearly a third of […]