4 Die in Fire That Began in E-Bike Store Near Chinatown
Four people were killed, including a 71-year-old man, after a fire tore through an e-bike service store on the first floor of a building near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood early Tuesday…
Republicans Against Inequality
A rising generation of Republican politicians is more skeptical of the free market and more comfortable using government power to regulate the economy than the party has traditionally been. Consider:…
A Year After Dobbs, Republicans Push Into Risky Territory on Abortion
In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one of the country’s most emotionally charged issues has come to be defined by two seemingly contradictory political realities.…
What to Know About the Missing Titan Submersible and the Race to Find It
A submersible watercraft with five people on board has been missing since Sunday after setting out to explore the site of the Titanic shipwreck in the North Atlantic. The vessel…
Blinken Visit Reveals Chasm in How U.S. and China Perceive Rivalry
An austere greeting on the airport tarmac in Beijing sans a red carpet. A stone-faced handshake from China’s top foreign policy official. A seat looking up at the Chinese leader,…
Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E.
When Jeffrey Vlk played running back in high school in the 1990s and then safety in college, he took and delivered countless tackles during full-contact football practices. Hitting was a…
With Pandemic Aid Ending, Vermont’s Homeless Are Forced From Hotels
As his few remaining hours with a place to live ticked by last Thursday, Scott Alexander panhandled near a McDonald’s in Brattleboro, in southern Vermont, while running through a mental…
Federal Policy on Homelessness Becomes New Target of the Right
The bipartisan approach that has dominated federal homelessness policy for more than two decades is under growing conservative attack. The policy directs billions of dollars to programs that provide homeless…
They Were Captured by the Russians. Then the Hardest Fight Began.
Shot through the jaw and tongue by a sniper’s bullet last year in the last days of the grinding siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine, Senior Sgt. Maksym…
Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase
Manny Medina, the chief executive of a Seattle-based artificial intelligence sales company, doesn’t mind repeating himself. It comes with the territory, after all. That tolerance proved convenient this year as…