MATAMOROS, Mexico — About 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Claudia said she was working in her office when she heard a staccato of sharp cracks — pop-pop-pop. She peeked outside to find heavily armed men shooting at a white minivan. She saw a body being dragged along the street and ducked to avoid windows. Claudia, who […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday will propose policies aimed at trimming federal budget deficits by at least $2 trillion over the next 10 years as his administration embraces the politics of debt reduction amid a fight with Republicans over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Mr. Biden’s plans, which will be detailed as part of […]
Even as New York’s public housing deteriorates, many developments are like oases in the city — large properties with rare amounts of open space, sculpted decades ago as a departure from crowded tenements and slums. Now, amid a funding crisis in public housing, one local official is reviving an idea to turn that land — […]
Even as New York’s public housing deteriorates, many developments are like oases in the city — large properties with rare amounts of open space, sculpted decades ago as a departure from crowded tenements and slums. Now, amid a funding crisis in public housing, one local official is reviving an idea to turn that land — […]
Toni Morrison, the acclaimed author who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, will be memorialized on a Forever stamp, which was unveiled Tuesday by the United States Postal Service. The portrait featured on the stamp — with Morrison smiling, looking straight into the camera, against a yellow backdrop […]
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll look at potential Republican presidential candidates who are making the rounds in New York City. We’ll also look at a crackdown on wage theft. The next presidential election is more than 600 days away, but already some potential Republican presidential candidates are headed to New York. They’re hoping to capitalize […]
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll look at potential Republican presidential candidates who are making the rounds in New York City. We’ll also look at a crackdown on wage theft. The next presidential election is more than 600 days away, but already some potential Republican presidential candidates are headed to New York. They’re hoping to capitalize […]
Good morning. Today we’ll look at what has happened to animals that have made headlines lately. Whales and sea turtles and alligators and a Eurasian eagle-owl. That doesn’t have the rhythmic punch of “lions and tigers and bears, oh, my.” But it’s what the New York area has seen lately, sometimes in sad conditions. Let’s […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s decades-long effort to prevent terrorists from building nuclear weapons has officially added a new dimension: keeping radioactive materials used in commercial industries out of their hands as well. The Department of Energy will lead a nationwide effort to remove certain highly radioactive materials from hospitals and other civilians sites, Elizabeth […]
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Sitting around a plastic folding table in a dusty tent, a half-dozen officers of the Hawaii-based 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment took a very short break from days of fighting on little to no sleep. The war, they said, was going well. The unit, newly created and innovative in nature, was facing […]