The Democrat, a former police officer, has promised to welcome business and to focus on rising crimeNew York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, was sworn into office soon after midnight yesterday. It was a fitting time of day for a cop-turned-politico who h…
Grace Mirabella, 70s and 80s US Vogue editor, dies aged 92
Mirabella was editor of the magazine from 1971 to 1988 and was a non-nonsense champion of practical fashionGrace Mirabella, the editor of American Vogue throughout the 1970s and much of the 1980s, has died aged 92.Mirabella was a non-nonsense champion …
Alabama city told to keep Confederate street name or face $25,000 fine
The Republican attorney general is threatening Montgomery after the city renamed Jeff Davis AvenueAlabama’s capital city of Montgomery is facing legal action or a $25,000 fine for changing the name of a street bearing the name of a Confederate presiden…
‘Skimpflation’: frustration as US firms skimp on service as prices rise
As labor shortages and supply chain problems bite, consumers have a growing sense they’re getting less for their money“Flight cancelled”; “service temporarily suspended”; “not currently available”; “longer than normal wait times”: these are the message…
Hollywood grifter: the actor who took Tinseltown for a Ponzi scheme ride
Zachary Horwitz ran a five-year scam that defrauded wealthy investors of at least $227m by claiming to be in licensing deals with Netflix and HBOIt’s a tale about a Hollywood grifter that reads like an outlandish movie script. But this real-life story …
Pleas for clemency grow ahead of Ernest Lee Johnson’s execution
Missouri Democrats Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver II join Pope in calls to governor for sentence to be set asidePleas for clemency on behalf of convicted murderer Ernest Lee Johnson are growing more frantic ahead of his scheduled execution by lethal inj…
Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack
Former employee is set to air her claims and reveal her identity in an interview airing Sunday night on CBS 60 Minutes A whistleblower at Facebook will say that thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to federal regulators prove…
‘I’m dealing with stuff’: Naomi Osaka questions her future in tennis
After crashing out of the US Open, the troubled star says she doesn’t know when she’ll play her next matchNaomi Osaka’s journey to the top took another unexpected turn on Friday when the Japanese tennis star announced she would be taking an indefinite …
Lindsay Peoples Wagner: taking the hard road to the height of fashion
The trailblazing young magazine chief and champion of diversity wants to open up the style world to real peopleWhen New York fashion week kicks off on Wednesday – effectively the first since the pandemic interrupted, and then collided with, the social …
At the frontier of the climate crisis, one scientist’s quest to record the ‘invisible world’ of the Arctic
Lighter nights, orange sunsets, straying killer whales: Wayne Davidson has observed the subtle signs of a tragically warming Arctic for four decadesWayne Davidson has been taking atmospheric readings from the Arctic Weather Station at Resolute Bay on C…