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Defensively, Yankees catcher Austin Wells has been solid, even in the midst of whiffing five times during the 11 at-bat hitless streak.

From the moment he showed up at Tim Heidecker’s house, the Chihuahua in the dragon costume seemed a little freaked out. Mr. Heidecker — an actor, comedian and singer-songwriter — lives on a low-key, tree-shaded street in Glendale, Calif. On a recent morning, he was in his converted garage, getting ready for another episode of […]

Mayor Eric Adams was riding high in the fall of 2022 when Winnie Greco, one of his best fund-raisers and a top adviser, led him into a glittering ballroom in Flushing, Queens, the heart of the Chinese diaspora in New York City. She and Mr. Adams took their seats at the head table of the […]

“Did you follow the news this week?” That’s how The New York Times News Quiz announces itself each weekend. For nearly a century, off and on, The Times has used a variety of contests to encourage readers to stay abreast of current affairs (by buying The Times, naturally). For example, the Saturday News Quiz, edited […]

For a 74-year-old, Joe Holtz can cover a lot of ground very quickly. The ground he was covering the other day was the three adjoining carriage houses in Brooklyn that were subsumed by the Park Slope Food Co-op as it grew and became the largest, busiest and most argument-inducing single-store food cooperative in the United […]

Barclays Center in Brooklyn shook with the roar of 17,700 basketball fans, almost all of them rooting for the New York Liberty. They have been waiting years for a team like this one, and on Thursday, with only five minutes left and the Liberty up by 15 points over the Minnesota Lynx in Game 1 […]

Here is the situation on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Fighting Kyiv said Russian attacks killed two people in the eastern Donetsk region: a 19-year-old travelling in a civilian car and an 84-year-old pensioner. One person was killed when a Ukrainian drone struck the Russian village of Ustinka in the Belgorod region close to the border […]

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, apologized amid scrutiny for a social media video in which she wore a Harris-Walz campaign hat and fed Doritos to a kneeling podcast host to promote the CHIPS Act. Whitmer was seen in the clip taking a Doritos chip out of a bag and placing it into the mouth […]

In Seattle, over 100 Hilton hotel workers have gone on strike, seeking fair wages, manageable workloads, and the restoration of staffing cuts from the COVID-19 pandemic. The strike, spearheaded by the Unite Here union, emphasizes rising frustrations within the hotel industry as workers grapple with the challenges of post-pandemic recovery and advocate for their labor […]