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Upstairs in New York City’s storied Stonewall bar Friday evening—rainbow Christmas tree twinkling, a microphone-check underway—Matthew Haynes, co-owner of Club Q, was reflecting on the three weeks since a gunman shot dozens of people, five fatally, at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ club. “Sometimes it feels like three years, sometimes it…

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NEW YORK -- More than 1,000 New York Times journalists and other staff walked off the job for 24 hours Thursday, frustrated by contract negotiations that have dragged on for months in the newspaper's biggest labor dispute in more than 40 years. Hundreds of reporters, editors, photographers and other employees…

More than 1,100 members of the New York Times union are on a 24-hour strike, after pledging to walk out last Friday if the company refused to meet its demands of a fair contract by December 8. Members of the union have called on the public to avoid engaging with…

But unlikely as it might seem, “foreign forces” was also a phrase that popped up quite frequently. Some speakers adopted the word in a sarcastic tone. One introduced himself as “a ‘foreign force’ who was born and grew up in China.” Another said he and other participants were indeed “foreign…

In the end, the allure of Pinstripes won out. Aaron Judge, the American League single-season home-run record holder and the TIME’s 2022 Athlete of the Year, will sign a nine-year, $360 million contract with the New York Yankees, the franchise that drafted him out of Fresno State University back in…

By: The Associated Press Posted: 8:08 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 Print Email Save to Read Later NEW YORK (AP) — The American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday said it had chosen college president Sean Decatur to become its next president, making him the first Black leader of…

Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will be clear of a weapons charge he picked up leaving New York if he stays out of trouble for six months. Adesanya on Tuesday was issued an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD) by the court in Queens County (N.Y.), meaning his charge…

On Wednesday, House Democrats selected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to lead the party in 2023 after California Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced that she would not seek a leadership role in the new Congress. “Humbled to be elected incoming House Democratic Leader,” Jeffries wrote. “Ready to get to work.” Earlier this…

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has warned about the possibility of a perennial winter for blockchain projects, including crypto. In a recent article published in the New York Times (NYT), the economist criticizes blockchain as a tech and its uses citing several signs that he believes precede this upcoming winter.…