A passenger on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston was arrested on Sunday after he tried to open an emergency exit door while the plane was in flight and then attempted to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken spoon, the authorities said. The passenger, Francisco Severo Torres, 33, […]
During the last decade of his life, Charley Hoblin lived alone on his catamaran, poking into backwater marinas along the Southeast coast. He would anchor offshore, coming in occasionally for a meal or supplies, then move on before anyone noticed. He called his boat the Cheshire Cat. In the spring of 2021 he showed up […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — On a stifling July day, Elon Musk sat across from the governor of Oklahoma under a small white pop-up tent, a red Tesla flag waving from a short pole in an otherwise unadorned field. That the billionaire was even in Oklahoma, seriously considering putting a gigantic new Tesla factory outside of Tulsa, […]
A stampede spurred by rumors of gunfire at a crowded arena on Sunday killed two people and left a third in critical condition after a show by the Grammy-nominated rapper GloRilla in Rochester, N.Y., the police said. The stampede began after a performance by GlorRilla, the stage name of the Memphis-based rap artist Gloria Hallelujah […]
About 100 people were evacuated on Friday night from a small airport in Pennsylvania after a suspicious package was detected in checked luggage on a flight bound for Chicago, the second such episode in days after a similar evacuation at another small airport. The passenger terminal at the University Park Airport in State College, Pa., […]
About 100 people were evacuated on Friday night from a small airport in Pennsylvania after a suspicious package was detected in checked luggage on a flight bound for Chicago, the second such episode in days after a similar evacuation at another small airport. The passenger terminal at the University Park Airport in State College, Pa., […]
The Republican Party in New York, fresh off one of its best elections in two decades, is somehow entangled in turmoil. With its chairman, Representative Nick Langworthy, set to resign this month, the party has been immersed in a fraught battle over who will replace him — baring familiar fault lines between upstate and downstate, […]
Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday. The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. […]
The murder case against Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son, was nearing its conclusion on Thursday after a six-week trial that probed the mysteries, manners and machinations of a fallen legal dynasty. With closing arguments complete, the jury began deliberating whether Mr. Murdaugh, 54, fatally shot his […]
It’s Friday. We’ll look at a campaign that’s highly critical of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and comes with a mystery: Who’s paying for it? We’ll also see what the House Ethics Committee is seeking to determine now that it has opened an investigation of Representative George Santos. A group called Save Maimonides has financed […]