Monday, March 18, 2024

Thomas Stafford, 93, Commander of First U.S.-Soviet Space Mission, Dies

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth.

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Mayor Adams Is Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Colleague in 1993

In a lawsuit, a former police colleague of Eric Adams said that he demanded oral sex in exchange for career help in 1993 and assaulted her when she refused.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs

Health care systems and affordable housing developers have a mutual financial interest in helping communities live healthier.

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

3 People Fatally Shot in Falls Township, Pa., Police Say

The authorities lifted a shelter-in-place directive in Falls Township, Pa., on Saturday after the gunman fled and was tracked to Trenton, N.J.

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Trump’s Alternate Reality Pitch, Examined

The war in Ukraine. Hamas’s attack on Israel. Inflation. The former president has insisted that none would have occurred if he had remained in office after 2020.

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750-Pound Alligator Seized From Hamburg, N.Y., Home

The alligator, Albert Edward, had been with his owner for 34 years.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk

Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks to estimate where the hulking animals spent their days.

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I Have Some Questions for the Democrats Who Want to Run California

The Opinion columnist Ezra Klein moderates a forum with five of the top Democratic candidates for governor of California. from NYT > To...