When a house is on fire, firefighters race toward the flames. But they aren’t the only ones. Right behind them are workers in a little-known industry who offer traumatized homeowners what is known as emergency mitigation services. These are the crews that will board up and secure broken doors and windows and help head off […]
Fed up with persistent violence, officials in the city of Chihuahua in northern Mexico approved a ban last week forbidding musical acts from performing songs with lyrics that degrade women. Mayor Marco Bonilla of Chihuahua said in an video update last week that the law banned the performance of songs that “promote violence against women” […]
They came from Colombia and Chad, from Burundi, Peru, Venezuela, Madagascar. In New York they had heard there was a haven for immigrants, a place to live and get back on their feet. When they arrived, they found out that they had heard wrong. Two, three, four days later, they were still lined up outside […]
In the United States, some truck owners delight in modifying their rigs with oversized wheels, heavy-duty suspension kits and soot-spewing exhaust systems, turning them into the monster trucks that stalk organized events like demolition derbies and mud bogs. How quaint. In Mexico, drug cartels are taking the monster truck concept to another terrifying level, retrofitting […]
Another school week had just begun at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis when Orlando Harris, armed with a recently purchased AR-15-style rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition, burst into the building with a declaration: “You are all going to die!” Mr. Harris, a 19-year-old graduate of the school, opened fire […]
The Pentagon announced on Monday that President Biden had canceled an order by former President Donald J. Trump to move the United States Space Command headquarters to Alabama, prompting an outcry from Republicans who accused him of acting out of political spite amid a fierce partisan standoff over the Pentagon’s abortion access policies. The decision […]
O’Shae Sibley was at a Brooklyn gas station with friends late Saturday night, filling up a car and blasting music by Beyoncé when a group of men approached and told them to stop dancing, according to friends. The men began using slurs and Mr. Sibley, 28, a gay man who was a professional dancer and […]
It’s Monday. How the Bay Area became a mecca of Burmese cuisine. Plus, understanding the allure of Montecito. The line to be seated at Mandalay, a decades-old Burmese restaurant in San Francisco, spilled onto the sidewalk on a recent Saturday evening. Inside the festive dining room, customers huddled around rainbow-colored tea leaf salads, spicy noodle […]
Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll hear from an endurance swimmer who is bringing his Speedo, his goggles and his cap to the Hudson River. His goal is more than just bragging rights for making his way through the Hudson from beginning to end, 315 miles in all. I’m not much of a swimmer, but […]
As voter frustration boiled because of inflation, housing prices, climate change and other issues, the newly shuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posed for a “family photo” on Wednesday. It resembled a portrait introducing a new cabinet after an election, said Jeni Armstrong, an instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa and a former political […]