Tricia Shimamura, the Parks Department’s Manhattan borough commissioner since March 2024, will now be in charge of 30,000 acres of parkland across the city’s five boroughs.
Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters by enabling conservation zones.
The High Seas Treaty represents the first time that the vast majority of international waters, which lie outside of any country’s jurisdiction and cover nearly half the globe, can be protected.
A rally at City Hall was organized by a conservative influencer to draw attention to a fraud scandal in the state. Counterprotesters came out to oppose the effort.
Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.
With the Trump administration unlikely to bring a federal case against the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, our criminal justice reporter Jonah Bromwich explains some of the obstacles for any Minnesota prosecutors trying to charge the agent.
John Furner, incoming chief executive of Walmart, left, and Sundar Pichai, Google’s leader, said at a conference in New York City this week that the two companies would use artificial intelligence to change how all businesses sold their products.
A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
Rhoda Levine in 1995 at a rehearsal for her production of Hindemith’s “Mathis Der Maler” at New York City Opera. She was acclaimed for clear, straightforward stagings of classics, rarities and new works.
One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.
The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.
Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium and uranium. He fills jugs of drinking water at Rocky Ford Food Market in Rocky Ford, Colo.
Spain is home to the biggest collection of Venezuelan emigrants outside the Americas. Many cheered the capture of Nicolás Maduro, but are now adapting to the fact that his allies remain in charge.
President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.
The protests outside a Queens synagogue on Jan. 8 featured insults and slurs from the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups that gathered at night, but most attention focused on chants in support of Hamas.
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