For nearly three years, New Yorkers have been able to take advantage of a pandemic-era lifeline that provided people like Jocelyne Grandu, a retired French teacher who lives in Harlem, with an extra $80 each month in food stamp benefits. But with that federal assistance ending this month, more than 30 million people across the […]
Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll revisit the day I saw what was billed as a fragment from the composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull. There it was, hanging in a contraption that took up a good part of the floor space in a small, windowless room: a fragment of Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull. The medical researcher […]
Recovery efforts are only just beginning for the communities that were devastated by the tornadoes that swept across Mississippi and Alabama late Friday night. “My home is gone completely,” said Ashley Nichols of Rolling Fork, Miss., one of the hardest hit towns. “My son’s home is gone.” Melinda Newell Miller, a financial accountant originally from […]
Going Uptown Dear Diary: I was on a bus going uptown on Madison Avenue from Lower Manhattan. I was in a seat not far back from the driver, which allowed me to observe him as we went along. He was clearly a veteran and was able to identify people waiting at the door at each […]
At least three people were killed when a large tornado ripped through rural Mississippi on Friday night, the authorities said early Saturday morning. The tornado left a trail of destruction in its wake as it leveled homes and sent emergency services scrambling to rescue those trapped under the rubble. As dawn neared, emergency workers were […]
Buildings in New York have past lives that never quite go away. You look at the chain store on the corner and see not just the display of Peeps in the window but the shoe store that was there before it, or maybe the one before that. It is something about the way time and […]
Deshawn Hendricks, 26, wants to check his drugs for the powerful opioid fentanyl when he can, because as a crack user, he worries it could cause a life-threatening overdose. Matthew Todd, 32, tests for another reason: As an opioid user, he has come to depend on the quick and intense high fentanyl provides, and wants […]
The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States last year was the highest since the Anti-Defamation League began keeping track in 1979, the Jewish advocacy group announced on Thursday. In a new report, the A.D.L. counted 3,697 incidents throughout the United States in 2022, a 36 percent rise from the year before. A majority […]
OTTAWA — When President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada meet on Friday, one thorny topic likely to be on the table will be a worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed waves of violence and now control much of the capital. The increasingly dire conditions, including a national police […]
New surveillance video released on Wednesday shows a group of sheriff’s deputies rushing into Irvo Otieno’s jail cell in Henrico County, Va., and physically overpowering him, with one of them appearing to punch down multiple times before the officers carry his limp body out to a transport van. The video was recorded on the afternoon […]