The city argues that allowing the foreign crew to leave will interfere in the federal investigation.

Co-creator Joe Bennett talks through what made the production of one of 2023’s best shows so special

Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday? The NYPD has helicopters, and while it used to fly them around quite a bit, under Mayor Eric Adams it is flying them around a whole lot, according to a report in Bloomberg that analyzed the last five years of the department's helicopter flight data. According to the Bloomberg report, which you should really read in its entirety, the police spent $12.4 million dollars flying their helicopters around in the 2023 fiscal year, a figure which doesn't include the personnel costs. That's more than double what was spent in 2021, the last fiscal year of the de Blasio mayoralty. But according to Bloomberg's analysis, sightseeing is exactly what it appears the NYPD pilots are doing much of the time. "The flight records show that many of the department trips left city limits and some followed trajectories that hit multiple city landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center," the story notes. Sometimes, Bloomberg says, the flight records suggest that the helicopters are being used to ferry passengers to and from a location, like a sort of taxpayer-funded Blade service. One flight highlighted in the investigation zipped out to the Hamptons and back on a Friday evening in August. Another went to Philadelphia and then Albany before returning to New York City. Another time, an NYPD helicopter just went to Philly and back so a deputy commissioner could roll up to a gala event in style.

At this point, the scientists took up the experiment again. Could the acquired association of a shock with the sweet smell possibly have been transmitted to the third generation? It had. The grandpups were highly fearful of and more sensitive to the smell of cherries. How had this happened?

Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.

GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

Unfortunately for New Yorkers, one of the most important cooling measures at the City's disposal, its 79 outdoor pools, full of chilly, refreshing water for the people's enjoyment, remain closed. They won't open until June 27. When asked if the City considered opening pools—many of which are already filled with water and are just waiting for lifeguards to staff them—during this heat wave, Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi said during a Monday afternoon press conference that "there's a lot that goes into filling the pool, making sure the filtration systems work, and making sure they're adequately staffed," and that the City would have to "stick to that schedule." Joshi directed people to the City's beaches and playground sprinklers to keep cool during the upcoming heat wave. (At the same press conference, when a reporter asked if the City's cooling centers, many located in libraries, would be open on Sunday when it's forecast to be 87 degrees, Deputy Mayor for Communication Fabien Levy chided them, saying their question "doesn't really make sense.")

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years behind bars, had established evidence of actual innocence and must be freed within 30 days unless prosecutors retry her. He said her trial counsel was ineffective and prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that would have helped her. Her attorneys say this is the longest time a women has been been incarcerated for a wrongful conviction. They filed a motion seeking her immediate release.

I'm forcing game devs to make every single game woke, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

The Times teamed up with WeedWeek to test dozens of over-the-counter cannabis products. More than half had unsafe levels of pesticides.

Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized.

Despite past misconduct, some former therapists have continued their careers as life coaches. Now, after a high-profile conviction in Utah, legislators are asking whether it’s time for more oversight.

The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.

Iago, surprised.

I emerged from the theatre feeling like W. C. Fields, hating children, all children, even my children, because of what those who purport to make movies for them have been doing, both to movies and to children.

The City of Calgary has declared a state of local emergency to deal with the ongoing water crisis caused by the catastrophic break to the city's main water feeder main pipe. Mayor Jyoti Gondek and Sue Henry, Calgary's Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) chief, made the announcement during the mayor's daily news briefing Saturday morning. "The decision to declare a state of local emergency was not taken lightly, and it was done to ensure we are prepared for all eventualities in the drive to have this water feeder main restoration work done as quickly and safely as possible," Gondek said.

The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. “The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more,” said Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle. The birth of the sacred calf comes as after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo, also known as bison, to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

Conventional wisdom and public policy have long operated on the assumption that, no matter how bad the heat gets, air conditioning will be enough to keep people safe. But the last few years of record-breaking temperatures are shattering that myth.

Prepare to share the air.