April 11, 2025
A sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people on board, the latest in a string of incidents in recent months that has rattled confidence in US aviation safety. “At this time, all six victims …
January 24, 2025
Major League Baseball has ordered its employees to return to the office five days a week, according to people familiar with the matter. The league had been on a hybrid policy since the pandemic. The change will go into effect …
January 3, 2025
Investigators say they haven’t found evidence linking separate deadly attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, as the FBI continues to probe two incidents that rattled Americans as they rang in 2025. The tragedies, which occurred just hours apart early …
November 8, 2024
Brush fires broke out in a major New York City park and in New Jersey on Friday as the worst drought in more than two decades gripped the US Northeast. Firefighters worked to extinguish a blaze in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park …
March 27, 2024
The 1.6 mile-long bridge collapsed in a matter of seconds. The catastrophic consequences are set to stretch out for weeks. As much as 2.5 million tons of coal, hundreds of cars made by Ford Motor Co., and General Motors Co., …
July 13, 2023
The European Union’s drug regulator expanded its investigation into a possible risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines and a separate analysis found that most patients stopped taking the medications after a year. The European …
July 24, 2018
Head southeast out of Mexico City for about four hours or so and you will come upon the town of Acultzingo. It is an impoverished, dusty little place nestled up against the rugged peaks of the Sierra Madre. Most inhabitants …
September 20, 2017
Mexican search and rescue teams worked through the night after an earthquake rocked one of the world’s largest urban centers, killing hundreds and reducing buildings to rubble. Military police, paramedics and volunteers, aided by giant flood lights, sifted through the …
October 23, 2015
Hurricane Patricia, the strongest in the history of the Americas, prepared to barrel into Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday, sending guests fleeing hotels in the Puerto Vallarta resort area. About 400,000 people are considered “vulnerable,” civil protection official Jose Maria Tapia …
September 19, 2013
Hurricane Manuel formed off of Mexico’s Pacific coast, promising to bring new flooding as the nation struggles to clean up after two storms that killed at least 80 people and trapped thousands of tourists in the resort city of Acapulco. …