Jessica Pegula is back in her New York groove. The Buffalo native, who is again taking her game to another level here on the blue courts in Flushing, needed just under an hour and a half to send two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia packing, 6-3, 6-3, in the U.S. Open quarterfinals on… Read More »
PARIS (AP) — French film star Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould. “I feel relieved,” Arnould, 29, wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, announcing that she had received the investigating judge’s indictment order. “The order restores a… Read More »
Three people, including a 6-year-old boy, remain hospitalized after a woman drove her car through a crowd at a Labor Day festival in Pennsylvania, according to officials. The driver was identified on Tuesday as Elizabeth Bohrer, Fox 43 reported. She’s facing a slew of charges — including three counts of aggravated assault by vehicle, aggravated… Read More »
President Trump was set to make an announcement at the White House Tuesday afternoon amid unfounded health rumors sparked by his staying almost entirely out of public view for a full week. Trump, 79, planned to announce that the Defense Department will move the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. The… Read More »
Anna Wintour has passed the designer baton to Vogue.com editor and “proud ‘nepo baby’” Chloe Malle, daughter of the actress Candice Bergen, to helm the American iteration of the storied fashion magazine. Vogue on Tuesday announced the promotion is effective immediately, catapulting the 39-year-old “The Run-Through” co-host — whose mom played fictional Vogue editor Enid… Read More »
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the powerful upper West Side liberal, says he won’t run for reelection in 2026, citing the need for younger Democratic leaders to power the party into the future. Nadler, 78, said in an interview that the drama over former President Biden’s initial decision to run for reelection in 2024 and his abrupt… Read More »
By KEN MORITSUGU, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “old friend” as the two held a series of meetings Tuesday at a time when their countries face both overlapping and differing challenges from the United States. Relations between China and Russia have deepened in recent… Read More »
Amtrak’s new Acela trains, called NextGen, are four years late arriving for passengers on the Boston-New York-Washington route, but still most Amtrak passengers on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) will never be able to use them. That can and must change and Amtrak should deploy the 28 new trainsets for all riders on their busiest line… Read More »
Eighty years ago today, on Sept. 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Allied powers gathered to witness the surrender of Imperial Japan, ending World War II. Generals and admirals from the United States were joined by representatives from China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada,… Read More »
What is a New York City where working class people no longer can afford to live? What kind of identity, what type of soul, would that place have? Would it still glow with the restless energy with which we’ve always been defined by? Or would it recede in its absence? By relentlessly challenging the status… Read More »