1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (885+ words) Elizabeth A. Phelps, Harvard University and William Hirst, The New School (THE CONVERSATION) How did you first learn of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001? Was it your mother’s panicked phone call? Your roommate shaking you awake with the news? The anxious chatter…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (772+ words) Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her home. “What did you see? What did you…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (351+ words) Flaky, golden crust. Apple juices bubbling through its vents. The scent of cinnamon. Apple pie is my comfort food, and the only thing my family always cooks together: rolling the dough, fluting the crust’s edges, peeling and chopping the apples....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (216+ words) The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others. It’s unusual — although not unheard of — for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (251+ words) Greenwich Time 8, has been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds following his guilty plea last week to federal charges Judge Gregory Carro issued an order Monday canceling the trial and…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (171+ words) “As synagogue security was escorting him out, he struck a member of the congregation, damaged synagogue property, and then spit at and head-butted a member of the security team,” a statement from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. A police sergeant…...