Los Angeles County prosecutors said on Tuesday that they would not retry Harvey Weinstein, the once-powerful movie producer who has been sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison, on three sexual assault charges that resulted in a deadlocked jury last year. After the announcement, Judge Lisa B. Lench of Los Angeles Superior Court dismissed the […]
Wellesley College proudly proclaims itself as a place for “women who will make a difference in the world.” It boasts a long line of celebrated alumni, including Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Nora Ephron. On Tuesday, its students will vote on a referendum that has divided the campus and goes straight to the issue of […]
Driven by tech company slowdowns and the shift to remote work, a booming business has emerged in Silicon Valley: furniture reselling. An increasing number of businesses in the Bay Area are scooping up left-behind office furniture as they capitalize on a wave of tech companies that have been drastically shrinking their physical footprints. Among the […]
An industrial camera that contains sealed-off radioactive material has been missing for several days in the Houston area after workers noticed it was gone from their work site, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. Multiple layers of protection surround the radioactive material, and levels of radiation outside the camera are not dangerous to […]
In April 2017, the Seattle police arrested a Brazilian man they had caught installing a card-skimming machine on an A.T.M. near the famed Pike Place Market. As officers investigated, they connected the man to a Florida address where he once lived with George Santos, now a Republican congressman from New York. The man, Gustavo Ribeiro […]
The owner of a Brooklyn real estate company pleaded guilty this week to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to a homeless-shelter operator in a yearslong scheme to profit from programs meant to help homeless people. The real estate company owner, Sheina Levin, specialized in renting housing to nonprofit groups. On Thursday, she […]
A Quebec judge declared last month, as he acquitted a man who had been accused of threatening and harassing his neighbor, that Canadians have a “God-given” right to give someone the middle finger. The man who was acquitted, Neall Epstein, had been arrested outside his home in Beaconsfield, a suburb southwest of Montreal, in May […]
On Thursday afternoon, a number of local politicians and tenants’ groups came together in the East Village to draw attention to a practice known as “Frankensteining,” which, in the context of New York City’s housing crisis, has emerged as a newly born grotesquerie. The term refers to a loophole in an otherwise tenant-friendly 2019 law […]
The power had been out for a week with snow to the rafters in Crestline when the neighbors found 93-year-old Elinor “Dolly” Avenatti bundled up in a chair in front of her fireplace, which had gone cold. Barbie Hughes, 39, the clerk at the local hardware store, was hit by a vehicle on a dark, […]
In a preview of potential Democratic battle lines in New York City, Adrienne Adams, the powerful speaker of the City Council, laid out her vision for the city on Wednesday, detailing an agenda that seemed to put her in conflict with Mayor Eric Adams. In her second State of the City speech, Ms. Adams called […]