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A team of Mount Sinai surgeons in New York City earlier this year performed the world's first human tracheal transplant surgery, the health system announced this week. News of the procedure's success already has other patients taking note. To date, surgeons have been unable to transplant the trachea -- an…

Democracies depend on law; authoritarian systems prefer legal theater. In recent cases having to do with religion, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has shown a distinct preference for the latter. This unsubtle turn in the direction of performative justice is among the more disturbing developments in American politics…

An office and shopping complex in Beijing. (AP) Mumbai featured in the Forbes list with 48 dollar billionaires as it added 10 billionaires last year.Beijing replaced New York City as home to highest number of dollar billionaires, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine. Bouncing back from…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emblazoned with the outline of a masked Statue of Liberty flexing a formidable bicep, the first COVID-19 mobile vaccine clinics rolled into New York City on Wednesday to make vaccinations more easily available for underserved communities. The first buses set up in the Sunset Park community…

Wondrous trio Oracle Sisters offer haunting European perspectives through their distinct brand of astral indie rock. Residing in Paris, they have roots in Denmark, Finland and the UK. The constellation of nationalities gives Lewis Lazar, Christopher Willatt and Julia Johansen unique cultural reference points and passions that inspire prolific recording…

New York City millionaires will soon be subject to the country's highest tax rate, The NYT reported. Cuomo finalized a budget Tuesday that would see New Yorkers pay 13.5% to 14.8% in local and state taxes. If Biden raises the top federal income tax rate to 39%, more than half…

New York City police on Saturday released photos of a man being sought in connection with an alleged anti-Asian hate crime on a Times Square-bound subway. The suspect used anti-Asian slurs before spitting twice in the direction of an unidentified 44-year-old woman and her three children, the New York Police…

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant received a $50,000 fine from the NBA for "offensive" language. In screenshots posted to Twitter, Durant called podcaster Michael Rapaport various degrading terms.  Durant, speaking to reporters, apologized for his remarks.  See more stories on Insider's business page. The NBA gave Brooklyn Nets star Kevin…

Akayed Ullah. (New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission via AP) NEW YORK—A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on…

More than 1,800 people have reportedly volunteered to escort Asian American pedestrians in New York City amid a surge of anti-Asian attacks. The volunteers are part of the SafeWalks initiative, which launched in January after at least five women were violently assaulted at Brooklyn's Morgan Avenue Subway Station. More recently,…