The Rent Guidelines Board got it right
New York City tenants have long known that the rents are too damn high. Yet landlords and real estate organizations have repeatedly complained that rents are too low. Several are…
More U.S. households are struggling financially, analysis finds
A growing number of American households became financially strapped over the past year and had a harder time keeping their heads above water, a long-running analysis finds. The share of…
Raymond Horsch had access to a Kensington crematorium linked to illegal body parts sales, years before investigation
Listen to article • 0:00 minYears before police launched an investigation into the missing women connected to Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, the late pornographer stood inside a Kensington art gallery and…
To a binational tribe, Trump’s border wall feels like betrayal
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION — The first fence to slice through the Tohono O’odham Nation was simple barbed wire meant to keep cows from roaming south into Mexico. The second, which…
ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
Listen to article • 0:00 minAUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in the Texas capital of Austin, local…
How Temple University failed my daughter on her first day of college
Listen to article • 0:00 minRemember all those big feelings you had on move-in day as a college freshman? After a long summer, you probably arrived on campus ready to…
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
Listen to article • 0:00 minPresident Donald Trump’s sprawling family business empire has become increasingly intertwined with the boom in artificial intelligence, at the same time that he has resisted…
Ukraine fires over 1,000 drones at Russia, including ‘largest ever’ attack on Moscow
Listen to article • 0:00 minUkrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday, as the Kremlin was wrapping…
Can AI help college students become better writers? A first-of-its-kind research center at UC Irvine is set to find out
Through a $10 million federal grant, UCI’s School of Education is launching the National Center for Writing Research to Improve Teaching Effectiveness with Generative AI, known as the WRITE AI…
Nearly a decade after #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein set to face fourth and possibly final sentencing
Nearly a decade after an earthquake of sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ended his Hollywood career and triggered the #MeToo swell that rippled across the world, the disgraced film…