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Police say a 15-year-old high school football player was killed by stray bullets as he shielded three teenage girls from gunshots. (Reuters) When the shooting began Thursday night in Knoxville, Tenn., Zaevion Dobson faced a split-second choice: run away and save himself, or use his body as a shield to protect those around him. Nobody…
Last night, after nearly 5 hours of discussion and witness testimony, Austin’s City Council pulled the trigger on an amendment to the city’s code that has far-reaching implications for the future of mobility in American cities. Under pressure from those in favor of the ordinance, the Council chose to enact policy without the due diligence that thousands…
HTML Element: 7.2509921 Forget about snakes on a plane — check out what was riding on this bus-s-s-s. A large snake, possibly a ball python, took a weekend ride on an MTA bus in Brooklyn. The slithering passenger was seen riding the B12 bus at East New York and Saratoga Aves. Shortly after…
So you want to live in New York City. The stereotypical “affluent young college graduate from Ohio coming to make his way in the big city”—that easily mocked demographic that can be ignored and dismissed out of hand as spoiled, or part of the problem—is only a small sliver of New York City residents. Most…
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a qualified endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, saying he hoped Trump’s election could improve Moscow’s relations with the United States. “He’s a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt. It’s not our job to judge his qualities, that’s a job for American…
Michael Ip/for New York Daily News An off-duty cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. An NYPD cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. Jacob Sabbagh, 33, was busted in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park on Wednesday and charged with “course of sexual conduct against a…
A delegation of human rights experts from Poland, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica spent 10 days this month touring the United States so they can prepare a report on the nation’s overall treatment of women. The three women, who lead a United Nations working group on discrimination against women, visited Alabama, Texas and Oregon…
It’s bad enough that Silicon Valley trounces New York City in venture-capital investment every quarter. But now it turns out that a software engineer in New York City has a lower standard of living, based on earnings, than his counterparts in every other tech hub of the country, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle,…
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s new government will not try to revive a voided pact with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, Justice Minister Germán Garavano said Friday night. Mr. Garavano said the Justice Ministry would not appeal a court’s decision last year that declared the pact, signed in 2013…
One of the benefits of private property is that whoever owns it can charge other people to use it. This is called rent. If people want to use this particular property very badly—that is to say, it is in “high demand”—the owner can charge a lot of rent. This is called capitalism. But some owners…