Rockaway Beach Closed After Woman Is Bitten by a Shark
A 50-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon at Rockaway Beach, the authorities said, in what was the first confirmed shark bite in New York City in decades.…
A 50-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon at Rockaway Beach, the authorities said, in what was the first confirmed shark bite in New York City in decades.…
Early this year, Ohio legislators ended the practice of regularly holding elections in August, pointing to high costs and low turnout. A few months later, the state’s legislature put a…
Goldman makes a big executive change The man who has been perhaps the most influential executive inside Goldman Sachs for more than a generation has begun to hand over some…
Floods, fires and heavy rains have landed more blows across Europe this week, with the authorities on the continent scrambling to respond to the extreme weather that has become increasingly…
Then, in 2018, came the doctorate program at Teachers College and the establishment there of the Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership. “We need the research,” said…
During the early months of the pandemic, a certain company went suddenly from relative obscurity to the type of popularity that made it a noun, verb and catchphrase. “Can you…
The quaint little shop on the Upper East Side is New York City’s only store dedicated to French children’s books. But lately, the shop, La Librairie des Enfants, has earned…
Taiwan is a self-ruling island of 24 million people that is officially known as the Republic of China. About only a dozen countries recognize it as a nation because China…
At this year’s commencement ceremony for the Chongqing Metropolitan College of Science and Technology in southwestern China, the graduating class did not receive the usual lofty message to pursue their…
When Michelle Reininger went to bed on Thursday, June 15, she wasn’t worried about the weather. The last time she checked, the forecast had called for scattered showers. But in…
About 12:30 p.m. Friday, the New York Police Department’s entertainment unit saw that Kai Cenat, a social-media streamer who has more than 6 million followers, had said that he would…
Off the western shores of Central and South America, there is a Lovecraftian, lava-licked realm thousands of feet beneath the ocean. There, on the seafloor, volcanically powered exhaust ports known…
Music is, pace Proust, the most reliable engine of nostalgia. But I’ve never had much use for nostalgia, especially for my chaotic childhood. Nostalgia, it always seemed to me, required…
Presidents are forever linked to their most memorable lines or slogans, phrases that become inseparable from their passage through history. Ronald Reagan proclaimed morning in America. Barack Obama promised America…