After more than three years of daily reporting on the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every county in the United States, The New York Times is ending its Covid data-gathering operation. The Times will continue to publish its Covid tracking pages for the United States, only now they will be based on the […]
Decades after Cesar Chavez made the United Farm Workers a powerhouse in California’s fields, the union has lost much of its clout. U.F.W.’s membership in the 1970s was around 60,000. Now it’s closer to 5,500, less than 2 percent of the state’s agricultural work force. But the union is hoping to regain its relevance and […]
A man who investigators said sped through a red light at a Brooklyn intersection was charged on Tuesday with killing a driver and a pedestrian, according to the New York Police Department. The man, Vitaliy Konoplyov, was charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, the […]
Warren Boroson, a journalist who conducted a survey of psychiatrists that declared the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, Barry M. Goldwater, mentally unfit to be president — provoking a libel suit from the candidate and prompting a psychiatric association to muzzle its members from ever diagnosing a public figure from afar — died on March 12 […]
“It’s bad!” one person wrote. “If there’s going to be a riot in NYC, it’ll be over this.” wrote another. Someone else posted: “This is literally the worst design I’ve ever, ever seen.” Just a few hours after the new “We ❤️ NYC” logo was revealed on Monday, reaction on Twitter — and beyond — […]
Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has insisted that he does not pay attention to politics when deciding whether to charge someone with a crime. But Mr. Bragg’s stated reluctance to consider the political ramifications of his office’s decisions has not quelled the storm brewing around him: He now appears poised to become the […]
He would be fingerprinted. He would be photographed. He could even be handcuffed. And if Donald J. Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in the days ahead for his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, the former president of the United States of America will be read the standard […]
A fiery crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway took the lives of five young people in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Westchester County Police Department. A sixth child, a 9-year-old boy who was riding in the cargo area of the Nissan Rogue that crashed, survived and was taken to Westchester Medical […]
Critic’s Choice Dear Diary: I had recently been asked to paint a portrait of a friend’s mountaintop cottage. So I did, positioning it atop a speckled field of tall grass and red and white wildflowers. Not completely satisfied with the painting, I brought it to my plein-air class at the Art Students League so my […]
TEANECK, N.J. — The jokes of “F.D.— who?” go back more than 30 years, to the last time Fairleigh Dickinson University played Purdue in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament. Purdue fans held up signs with the slogan when the two teams faced off in 1988. Purdue won. F.D.U. faded back into obscurity. So, for alumni of […]