USA in the News: Unraveling Headlines from Politics to Blizzards
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-16 04:03:02 When Sandra Davis and Bruce Levine bought a garden-level duplex in a 1910 townhouse on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, they knew they’d have to accept its quirks, at least for a while. “We loved the large garden space, but the apartment itself felt cramped and dark,” said…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-16 04:00:38 If you live in one of America’s cities, you probably see homeless people all the time. You might pass them on your way to work. Maybe you avoid eye contact. If they ask you for money, maybe you pretend you didn’t hear, and walk on by. But what if…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-16 02:00:10 Four months after an explosive congressional hearing on antisemitism precipitated the resignations of two Ivy League presidentsanother university president is about to step to the hot seat. On Wednesday, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafikwill testify about antisemitism before the same House committee that grilled the presidents of the University of…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-15 17:03:10 The criminal trial of Donald J. Trump, the nation’s 45th president and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, started Monday with potential jurors assembling in a drab courtroom in New York City while Mr. Trump looked on. Mr. Trump was charged in Manhattan, a deeply Democratic county and his former…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-15 11:34:20 It’s true that it’s not an easy time for trust-building exercises; the current level of mistrust between Chinese and American military intentions is deep. Speaking to Congress in March, Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of all U.S. nuclear forces, suggested that China’s rapid nuclear expansion indicated its no-first-use policy was…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-15 11:33:28 When the Danish chef Frederik Bille Brahe took over Apollo Bar & Kantine in 2017, it was an unassuming museum cafe where a person might grab a quick sandwich after seeing one of the contemporary art exhibitions at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, set within the same grand 17th-century complex in…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-15 04:00:55 The 75-foot-long brontosaurus at the newly reopened Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Conn., is the same dinosaur that the natural history museum has had on display since 1931. Yet it looks different. A fresh pose. New front ribs. The head is repositioned at a more inquisitive angle. The…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-14 23:01:17 To enter a secret session of Germany’s Parliament, lawmakers must lock their phones and leave them outside. Inside, they are not even allowed to take notes. Yet to many politicians, these precautions against espionage now feel like something of a farce. Because seated alongside them in those classified meetings…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-14 11:03:17 Two giant, shirtless men bow respectfully and then hurl themselves at each other in a violent pas de deux that ends with a victory in seconds. But the setting for this tussle on Saturday night was not Tokyo or Osaka, but the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-13 04:03:09 Diptych, dyad, dialectic: The relationship between the first pair of buildings Philip Johnson designed for his estate in New Canaan, Conn., has taxed the metaphorical imaginations of critics and architectural historians since the structures were completed, just months apart, in 1949. On one side, the Glass House, transparent and…
