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Several Children Injured After School Bus Overturns in New Jersey

Students at New York University who study the music industry and do research at the frontiers of audio have a new benefactor: Sony. A $7.5 million donation from the Japanese electronics and media giant, made through its personal entertainment business unit, will help establish the Sony Audio Institute, a multifaceted partnership at N.Y.U.’s Steinhardt School … Read more

A new agreement has been reached to end wildcat strikes by thousands of New York State correctional officers, which have created chaos throughout the prison system. Under the agreement, negotiated by state officials and the correctional officers’ union, the officers are expected to return to work Monday. The officers, who maintained that staffing shortages, forced … Read more

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the pandemic, five years after it exploded in New York. We’ll also look at a contest to make a Manhattan, a cocktail with a history. We knew it was coming. Five years later, we are still trying to make sense of it. I remember spending almost a … Read more

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Jason Zinoman, who has been the comedy columnist for The New York Times since 2011, stumbled into his role by accident. “It was just dumb luck,” said Zinoman, then a freelance theater critic for The … Read more

Nearly two years after New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, vowed to fast-track the long-overdue redesign of Pennsylvania Station, little has changed for the Manhattan transit hub that she once called a “hellhole.” Two serious renovation proposals — one from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the other from a private developer — have both been stalled for … Read more

The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who gained prominence amid that campus’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations has divided the American Jewish community, which finds itself trying to reconcile a longstanding focus on Jewish safety and support for Israel with a historical commitment to civil liberties. Immigration authorities’ detention of the activist, Mahmoud Khalil, a … Read more

A school bus with at least 30 passengers on board overturned on the Garden State Parkway near Montvale, N.J., on Monday evening, injuring 13 people, the authorities said. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the bus overturned on the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway north of Exit 171 at around 7:40 … Read more

The last of the wind-driven wildfires that had stretched hundreds of acres across eastern Long Island, prompting the New York governor to declare a state of emergency, was extinguished by Sunday morning, according to local and state officials. The fire, in the Westhampton area, was the largest of four that broke out on Saturday afternoon. … Read more

The police on Monday were searching for a man and a woman connected to the death of a 3-year-old boy abandoned at a hospital in Brooklyn, according to an internal police report. Around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, the 24-year-old woman, who is believed to be the child’s mother, and her 38-year-old boyfriend took the boy … Read more