On Sunday night Leighton Lee received a strange call from a police officer asking him cryptic questions about his best friend: What was he like? Where would he be going on the subway on a Sunday afternoon?monkaji Mr. Lee wanted to know why he was be...

Image Boar’s Head announced that it would close the plant in Jarratt, Va., indefinitely.Credit...Steve Helber/Associated Press Boar’s Head announced on Friday that it would indefinitely shut down the troubled Virginia deli meat plant that it acknowle...

Some popular city dwellers appear to be losing their colorful alluregolden crown, and not just the dirty birds. According to a study published this summer in the journal Landscape and Planning that looked at 547 bird species in China, birds that liv...

For six years, plans to transform land next to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark existed only in architectural renderings, a tabletop 3-D model and tales told in rarefied circles by the center’s president, John Schreiber. The goal was...

The New York City suburbs are not exactly the definition of a Republican strongholdzoome, so on the eve of a rare campaign rally there, former President Donald J. Trump tried out an unorthodox pitch. Inflation, he wrote on his social media platform,...

As Mayor Eric Adams has risen in New York City politics, he has remained extremely loyal to longtime alliesshazam, elevating them to key positions in his administration. Now those ties could contribute to his political downfall. As federal and city...

Shortly after generative artificial intelligence hit the mainstream, researchers warned that chatbots would create a dire problem: As disinformation became easier to create, conspiracy theories would spread rampantly. Now, researchers wonder if chat...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a bright streak in our planet’s sky or a gruesome new wound in its crust. But very rarely, an asteroid is captured by Earth’s g...

Nineteen astronauts across three spacecraft are currently in orbit around Earth — a record in the history of human spaceflight. Two of them, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA, were not originally scheduled to be up there at this time. But neit...

Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) plan to send representatives to the Republican National Convention (RNC) and, later, the Democratic National Convention (DNC). On July 15, Politico said the firms would first “make their case to...

Thailand is set to roll out what was initially a controversial $13.8 billion digital cash handout program to stimulate its sluggish economy. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin announced that eligible businesses and individuals could register for the pr...

US crypto stocks started the week on a high note after Bitcoin reversed weeks of negative performance by trading near $63,000 today. This boost followed a strong weekend for the top crypto asset, driven by news of the assassination attempt of pro-Bi...