IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT Gloria Estefan talks new album, Latin roots, ‘Conga’ 08:17 Guitar shop crafts instruments from trashed wood of NYC landmarks 02:49 Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor, dies at 103 02:07 Travis Hunter praised by unknowing …
Read More »Gaza doctor loses 9 children as Israel bears down on war
Palestinian doctor Alaa al-Najjar has spent her life caring for the Strip’s sick and wounded children as a pediatric specialist at al-Tahrir Hospital in Gaza. On Friday, she lost nine of her own. An Israeli airstrike struck her home in Khan Younis, killing nearly her entire family, another unbearable blow …
Read More »‘Hick’ explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena Hickock
Trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok started working as a reporter in 1912, at a time when only about 1 in 5 women in the United States had jobs outside the home and their right to vote was still years away. It was that career that led Hickok to someone who would …
Read More »The Knicks-Pacers rivalry is back — and so are the iconic moments
When Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton hit what he thought was a game-winning 3-pointer against the New York Knicks at the end of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals — a replay review changed the shot to a two — he immediately looked over to the broadcast booth. Locking …
Read More »In 9 minutes and 29 seconds, George Floyd was killed, forever changing this neighborhood
Before Floyd’s murder, she was known as the first Black, openly transgender woman elected to public office in America. Elected in 2018, she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year earlier. But that did not stop Jenkins from tending to her neighborhood on foot, shopping at Cup Foods, frequenting …
Read More »Power outage disrupts final day of Cannes Film Festival, police investigate possible arson
CANNES, France — A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film Festival as the prestigious event prepared to hand out its top prize. Power was restored around 3 p.m., as music began blasting again from beachfront speakers. The …
Read More »Ex-Minneapolis police chief recalls ‘absolutely gut-wrenching’ moment of seeing George Floyd video
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo vividly remembers receiving a call around midnight from a community activist. The caller told him to watch a video spreading on social media of a white officer pinning a Black man to the ground, despite his fading pleas of “I can’t breathe.” …
Read More »Severe weather threatens record holiday travel rush
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Read More »Leader of neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ extradited to the U.S. from Moldova
NEW YORK — The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the United States from Moldova following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities, prosecutors said. …
Read More »1 dead in New York sewage-boat explosion on Hudson River
NEW YORK — An explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York City killed a longtime city employee Saturday, authorities said. Another worker on the city-owned Hunts Point vessel was injured and taken to the hospital after the blast around 10:30 …
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