After Ida’s fury, infrastructure key in preventing misery
Deadly flooding delivered to the Northeast by the torrential rains of what remained of Hurricane Ida has brought a new urgency and a fresh...
Companies: $26B settlement of opioid lawsuits to move ahead
Four companies in the drug industry said Thursday that enough states had agreed to a settlement of lawsuits over the opioid crisis for them...
Northeast deals with muck, waterlogged homes in Ida cleanup
CRANFORD, N.J. — Flood-stricken families and business owners across the Northeast were hauling waterlogged belongings to the curb Saturday and scraping away noxious mud...
Admirers still urging sainthood for chaplain killed on 9/11
NEW YORK — Among the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New York’s fire department,...
Ida evacuee’s thought: ‘How am I going to get out of this?’
MANVILLE, N.J. — One after another, storm evacuees in Manville, a central New Jersey town along the rain-swollen Raritan River, told the same story:...
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though...
Cleanup and mourning continue after Ida soaks Northeast US
The cleanup — and mourning — continued Friday as the Northeast U.S. recovered from record-breaking rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
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Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, due in court in sex assault case
BOSTON — Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-powerful prelate who was expelled from the priesthood for sexual abuse, is due in court...
Ida: Narrow escapes, deadly delays and a husband’s sacrifice
NEW YORK — Tales of selflessness and heroism — and of deadly delays and heartbreaking missed opportunities — are emerging after the remnants of...
Why was Ida so devastating as it flooded the Northeast?
NEW YORK — “How can something like this happen?”
The plaintive...