Honor labor’s gains & look to work that remains Hallandale Beach, Fla.: For more than a century, Labor Day has honored the achievements of the labor movement and American workers. It recognizes the many vital contributions that workers have made to our economy and our way of life. The labor movement secured better wages, reasonable… Read More »
Dear Eric: One of my best friends, who is a lesbian, just met a girl two weeks ago and they’ve already said “I love you” to each other. The other girl seems genuinely lovely, and my friend is very happy, which makes me happy! Not only is this moving very quickly, but the other girl… Read More »
After sweeping a three-game series against the Washington Nationals, the Yankees looked to secure a second consecutive sweep with a win Sunday over the Chicago White Sox. But in a 2-2 game in the bottom of the eighth inning, White Sox first baseman Lenyn Sosa hit a solo home run off Tim Hill that served… Read More »
Tennis star Sorana Cirstea said on Saturday night that an unknown thief stole a trophy from her while she was playing in the U.S. Open. Before coming to New York for the Open, Cirstea won a smaller tournament in Cleveland. With no time in between, she brought the trophy to New York. “Whoever stole my… Read More »
Police in Secaucus, N.J., were swarmed early Sunday by at least 50 people who surrounded their vehicles and lobbed fireworks as officers tried to break up a street-racing pop-up that clogged a busy intersection. Cops arrived at Secaucus Road and County Avenue at 2:31 a.m. after a report that more than 100 vehicles “took over”… Read More »
General Daily Insight for September 01, 2025 A step back can be a good thing. Today, serious Saturn retrogrades back into mystical Pisces at 4:07 am EDT for the next six months, during which time we will be finetuning our intuition and inspiration. Meanwhile, the Moon in outgoing Sagittarius will trine chatty Mercury in expressive… Read More »
Doctors have found a bullet fragment in the neck of a 10-year-old survivor of last week’s Minneapolis church shooting who had extolled his friend’s heroism in shielding him. “I think I got, like, gunpowder on my neck,” fifth grader Weston Halsne told media outlets as he recounted diving under a pew and credited his friend… Read More »
Pope Leo XIV publicly prayed Sunday for victims in last week’s shooting at a Minneapolis church, demanding an end to the “pandemic of arms” killing “countless children” daily worldwide. “Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American state of Minnesota,” Leo said in English during the Sunday… Read More »
NEW YORK — Taylor Townsend couldn’t covert eight match points in a second set that ended with a 25-minute tiebreaker and was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Sunday with a 1-6, 7-6 (13), 6-3 loss to Barbora Krejcikova. With fans chanting “Let’s go Taylor! Let’s go Taylor!” for a player who became a fan… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — So much has happened for Naomi Osaka — in tennis, away from tennis — since she first played Coco Gauff at the U.S. Open back in 2019. Over that time, Osaka has won two Grand Slam trophies to raise her career total to four, helped spark a global conversation about mental health by revealing she… Read More »