A group of homeowners had sued the city, arguing that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. After the judge issued an order pausing the rollout, the city said it would appeal.The lawsuit criticized a decision to send letters to the owners of roughly 17,000 properties informing them that they m
New York City’s mayor wants major companies to hire employees directly rather than relying on contractors. The firms say that will raise prices and slow service.Many of the workers delivering packages for companies such as Amazon are employed by contractors, not the big firms.
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President Trump is eager to declare success in Iran and Gaza, but he is struggling to impose his will in either conflict.President Trump boarding Air Force One in New Jersey on Sunday. Over the weekend, he said his strategy is to be “low-keying” it in Iran.
The Israeli prime minister, facing a tough upcoming election, is trying to satisfy the sometimes competing demands of his right-wing base and of President Trump.President Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, at the White House last year.
Immigrants who said they inadvertently registered to vote while obtaining or renewing driver’s licenses are increasingly facing deportation under the Trump administration.In the past, the Homeland Security Department has not aggressively tried to deport the relatively small number of noncitizens who
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, makes six-figure income from a cellphone tower on the grounds of a hospital where he was a board member.The cell tower owned by Ken Paxton’s company sits on the property of what is now Baylor, Scott & White Medical Center in Frisco, Texas.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.Francesca Hong at a candidate forum in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in July.
Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.President Trump has always dismissed as baseless political smears suggestions that he was a Russian asset.
The pop-country megastar is still thrilling young audiences and influencing a new generation of musicians.
A pair of brothers who lost their mother and other family members in Venezuela and were profiled by The New York Times have now survived deadly quakes in two countries.Deivid Delfín, 44, with his two surviving sons, Winder, 17, left, and Deivi, 15, right, in Venezuela in June, after twin earthquakes
Abelardo De La Espriella had never held public office until his inauguration on Friday. Now, he is at the helm of a major disaster response.President Abelardo De La Espriella, left, and his vice president, José Manuel Restrepo, led an earthquake response meeting in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on
The most powerful temblor in a decade struck in a Pacific Coast region, killing over 100 people.Looking for survivors on Monday in Cali, Colombia.
Manuel Hernandez knew there were no life vests for children when he allowed an infant on board, according to a federal complaint. The child and her mother died in the accident.Manuel Hernandez, the boat’s captain, faces two counts of misconduct and neglect of a ship officer resulting in death.
Investigators are focusing on the tour operator and the captain of the boat that capsized in New York Bay on Saturday, killing a mother and her infant daughter.Alexander Reyes, right, embraces his wife and daughter after the three survived a boat accident that claimed the life of another passenger a
As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.Waymo driverless cars are in San Francisco and 14 other metropolitan areas, including Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Tampa.
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Weather at the start of the week looks like more of the same: heat and storms across the Eastern United States. But a subtle shift is in the cards.New York has faced above-average heat for days.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state transit officials announced a plan to study a heat-capture system that could cool a notoriously hot train station and help heat city buildings in the winter.Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and Janno Lieber, the chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
The British scholar resigned from Cambridge after the university, which made him its youngest Black professor in 2023, began investigating his academic qualifications.
Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.
The party, Yabloko, has navigated a delicate balancing act with an increasingly heavy-handed Kremlin, but its pro-peace manifesto turned out to be the red line.Nikolai Rybakov, right, the Yabloko party’s leader, and his lawyer, second from right, listening to the court decision after a hearing on a
The strike, on an industrial center in Tatarstan, killed at least 13 people.
Just shy of 44 with boyish good looks, Rob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.
