For many New Yorkers, Midtown Manhattan, with its gleaming skyscrapers and busy transportation hubs, lacks an element of cool and cachet that its more culturally vibrant neighbors have. Hordes of office workers, commuters and tourists typically flood the area, leaving it feeling anything but residential. What Midtown does have, though, is a glut of underutilized […]
Duncan Kennedy BBC News at Bergen Belsen AFP Tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, died at Belsen in northern Germany There had been rumours. There had been aerial photographs. There had been the written testimony of a few escapees. But it took liberation for the revelation of the shocking reality of the […]
Basic research conducted by America’s universities is crucial to our world-class entrepreneurial culture. How do we know this? Let’s take a short tour through the White House. The venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures runs the White House’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz is the nominee to […]
When Jonathan Neman was a student at Georgetown in the mid-2000s, he and some friends wanted to start a restaurant. A fast-food restaurant, but it would be healthy. And cool. The documentary “Super Size Me” had made waves, and “we were going to be rejecting the fast food of the previous generation,” Mr. Neman said. […]
EPA A leading health think tank says urgent and emergency care in England is performing “far worse” than before the pandemic. The Health Foundation argues that the NHS was “in distress” this winter with A&E waiting times reaching a record high. The group says it would be wrong just to blame relatively high levels of […]
Phoenicians no doubt traveled to and from Carthage, he said, and over the six or seven centuries of its Punic life many probably relocated there and had families, but they could not have amounted to more than a tiny fraction of the population. “Certainly there’s no evidence of a regular supply of Phoenician women to […]
Drag’s biggest stars have paid tribute to Jiggly Caliente, the RuPaul’s Drag Race star who helped champion Asian representation on the reality television show. The Filipina-American transwoman, whose real name is Bianca Castro-Arabejo, died early Saturday after suffering from a “severe infection” that caused the amputation of her right leg two days prior. She was […]
President Trump’s shake-up of the global trade system has sent tremors through the long-held view that the United States is the source of the world’s safest financial assets. That’s created an opportunity for Europe. The market tumult in which investors simultaneously sold off the U.S. dollar, American stocks and U.S. Treasury bonds eased last week […]
LIVERPOOL, England — Through a haze of red smoke, a generation of Liverpool dreams were realized. Before kickoff, fans came in the thousands, perching in trees and climbing on top of scaffolding to welcome the champions-elect to Anfield. Hours later, Liverpool’s coronation as Premier League champions was confirmed with a pulsating 5-1 victory over Tottenham […]
Apr 27, 2025, 08:38 PM ET Manchester United have proposed a contract offer to Wolves attacking midfielder Matheus Cunha, while Newcastle are positioning themselves to sign Bayern Munich centre-back Kim Min-Jae. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors, and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades | […]