[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Tuesday. There’s another tomato plant in the East River. Weather: Partly sunny and breezy, with a high in the upper 70s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Sept. 30 (Rosh Hashana). The subways are crowded, the streets are clogged with cars and good luck […]
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — New Jersey intends to stop doing business with gun manufacturers and retailers that fail to adopt policies, like conducting background checks, to stop guns from falling into the wrong hands, becoming the first state to take such stringent action against the firearms industry. The state will also apply pressure on major financial […]
London fire crews remain on scene battling a blaze in a south end neighbourhood Tuesday morning. Crews were called to 204 Millbank Drive, between Stanhope Crescent and Shaftsbury Avenue, shortly before 4:30 a.m. District Fire Chief Jeff Collins told 980 CFPL they were first dispatched to reports of a car fire on the property, but […]
The head of the National Weather Service led a rousing ovation for the Alabama forecasters who corrected President Donald Trump last week after he issued a false hurricane warning for the state. “Let me be clear: The Birmingham office did this to stop public panic, to ensure public safety,” director Louis Uccellini said Monday at […]
Thomas B. Hofeller was known in political circles as a master of drawing political districts and using demographic data to further the aims of Republicans. But before his death a year ago, the public record of his work was limited to gerrymandered political maps in North Carolina and a handful of other states, and a […]
Dan McCready is the kind of candidate who helped Democrats win the House in 2018. He’s a Marine Corps veteran who vowed not to support Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker. He doesn’t support “Medicare for all” or an assault weapons ban. And he came less than half a percentage point short of winning a fraud-marred […]
Back in 1971, the year Jonathan Knisely won the National Spelling Bee, there were no study guides for sale on Amazon and no Facebook groups dedicated to spelling bee study. To prepare, he pored over lists of words from previous bees that his father borrowed from other parents. He beat out 76 competitors to clinch […]
When it comes to taking opioids, the United States has the dubious honour of leading the world. For every one million Americans, almost 50,000 doses of opioids are taken every day. That’s four times the rate in the UK. There are often good reasons for taking opioids. Cancer patients use them for pain relief, as […]
The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say. Citing “multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge” of the operation, CNN reported that US intelligence feared the source’s cover could be blown by US officials. The decision was made soon after a meeting in which President Trump unexpectedly shared classified US […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – A Chinese national arrested for bluffing her way onto US President Donald Trump’s Florida resort went on trial acting as her own attorney on Monday (Sept 9), telling jurors in her brief opening statement, “I don’t believe I did anything wrong.” The defendant, Yujing Zhang, 33, appeared before US District […]