How Will Maine Democrats Replace Graham Platner? Here’s What to Know.

By: Taylor Robinson and Tim Balk — 11 July 2026 at 19:34

Mr. Platner’s withdrawal from a marquee Senate race, under pressure from his party, has set in motion an unusual competition to become the new nominee.

The campaign headquarters of Graham Platner in Ellsworth, Maine, this week.

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New York City Is Full of Green Space. You Just Have to Find It.

By: Mihir Zaveri — 5 October 2025 at 07:00

The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest.

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Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

By: Joseph Bernstein — 25 June 2025 at 19:18

Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that.

In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed bookstore shelves, fiction was a boys club. Today, the situation has changed.

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For a Family That Lost 5 Loved Ones, ‘Covid Will Never Be Over’

By: Tracey Tully — 10 March 2025 at 16:29

Elizabeth Fusco’s relatives had their usual family dinner in New Jersey in early 2020. Soon, her mother, three siblings and aunt were all dead.

Vincenzo and Grace Fusco’s 11 children. Three siblings died in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, along with their mother and an aunt.

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1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized

By: Jon Pareles — 7 December 2024 at 10:00

In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why.

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Dexter Wade Found Buried in Jackson, After Months of His Mother’s Searching

By: Rick Rojas — 19 November 2023 at 10:01

Bettersten Wade spent months calling the police for help finding her son, without being told that an off-duty officer driving an SUV had fatally struck him on the same day she last saw him.

Bettersten Wade, center, searched for her son for more than five months, unaware that he had been buried behind the local jail in a ragged cemetery for the poor and unclaimed.

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Racially Motivated Shooting in Jacksonville Leaves 3 Dead

By: Orlando Mayorquin — 27 August 2023 at 01:30

The shooting occurred at a Dollar General store near Edward Waters University in Jacksonville. The gunman also died, officials said.

Law enforcement officials investigated the scene of a mass shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday.

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The U.S. Open Is King of New York. Could It Do More for Queens?

By: David Waldstein and Gabriela Bhaskar — 26 August 2023 at 21:36

The U.S. Open is a landmark event generating international attention and huge profits, but some nearby residents and business owners say they don’t reap all the benefits.

One of the entrances to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center sits behind a statue, “Freedom of the Human Spirit,” in Corona Park, Queens.