This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off ...

Joe Biden will exit the White House with as little fanfare as any president in modern memory. Forever sandwiched between Donald Trump presidencies and unwilling, in his 80s, to engage with ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that come January 20, he will institute the biggest mass deportation in American history. He has appointed Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, two voluble and ...

On the morning of New Year’s Day in Las Vegas, a Tesla Cybertruck blew up while parked in front of the Trump International Hotel. Police say the truck’s bed was loaded with gas canisters and ...

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. For now. After a handful of hard-right Republicans held out on Friday, he was reelected, winning them over not with his own personal charm but with the muscle ...

Character.ai is a popular app for chatting with bots. Its millions of chatbots, most created by users, all play different roles. Some are broad: general-purpose assistants, tutors, or therapists ...

As members of Congress returned to Washington this week, the focus was on Mike Johnson, who narrowly won reelection as House Speaker after initially failing on the first ballot. But in the longer ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The race to be the next mayor of New York City kicked off on a ...

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more injured during a suspected terrorist attack early Wednesday morning in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The lone perpetrator, a 42-year-old Texas man ...

New York’s hotly debated congestion-pricing plan has faced its fair share of challenges since the State Legislature passed it into law in 2019, but it is now finally set to begin midnight Sunday ...

The day after Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had identified new mutations to the H5N1 bird-flu virus in a “severely ill” patient in Louisiana.

If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked Christian Siriano — who recently ...