Neil Vigdor

A Phantom Humming Has a Connecticut City at Wit’s End

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n... West Haven, Conn., has budgeted $16,000 for an acoustics expert to try to pinpoint the source of a low-frequency disturbance that has disrupted residents’ lives.

Dallas County Exonerates Black Man Who Was Executed in 1956

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u... An all-white jury convicted Tommy Lee Walker of rape and murder, relying on inadmissible evidence and a coerced confession that he immediately recanted, county officials said.

Miami Beach Nightclub Is Condemned for Playing Ye’s Song ‘Heil Hitler’

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u... The club, Vendôme, was hosting several right-wing influencers, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, the brothers who are being investigated in Europe for alleged human trafficking.

Trump Administration Lawsuit Seeking California Voter Data Is Dismissed

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u... The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.

New York Sues Former C.E.O. of Covid Vaccine Maker Over Insider Trading

Robert G. Kramer sold nearly 90,000 shares of his stock in Emergent BioSolutions, knowing that large quantities of vaccine materials were contaminated, the lawsuit said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Paraglider Survives 500-Foot Crash Into Ocean Off Florida, Rescuers Say

A bystander captured the misadventure in a video that drew widespread attention online. Lifeguards and a snorkeler helped rescue the man www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

New Jersey Is Latest State to Ban Student Phones in Schools

The restrictions, signed into law by Gov. Philip D. Murphy on Thursday as one of his final acts in office, will take effect during the 2026-2027 school year. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...

University to Pay $500,000 to Professor It Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post

Austin Peay State University in Tennessee also reinstated Darren Michael, a tenured acting professor whose post about Charlie Kirk’s killing inflamed conservatives. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Ex-Turning Point Leader Gets Probation After Forging Voters’ Names

Austin Smith resigned from the group founded by Charlie Kirk and suspended his bid for re-election to the Arizona House in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

Software Error Will Force 325,000 Californians to Replace Real IDs

Some state-issued identification cards issued to legal immigrants could be valid longer than the people holding them are allowed to remain in the United States, state officials said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...

New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled

A veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts centers after it was renamed to include President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

Ice Storm Makes Travel Dangerous in Parts of New York and New England

Officials in Vermont and Buffalo, N.Y., warned residents to stay off the roads as a winter weather system brought thick sheets of ice and snow. Tens of thousands of power customers faced outages. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...

Christmas Trappings: New England Swoons Over Lobster Pot Trees

The trees have become a sought-after backdrop for social media posts, holiday cards and even marriage proposals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...

Stuck in Quicksand, a Hiker in Utah Has His SOS Answered

Austin Dirks used a Garmin satellite device to reach emergency responders, who rescued him in a remote canyon in Arches National Park. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Bird Flu Is Suspected After Vulture Carcasses Sat Rotting Outside Ohio School

The birds lingered for days at a Catholic school near Cincinnati as agencies haggled over who was responsible for removing them. Officials said the public health risk was low. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Air Force Pilot Ejects as Thunderbirds F-16 Crashes in California

The pilot was in stable condition after losing control of the fighter jet near Trona, Calif., about 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match

“I’ve always tried to put a big moment in a song, but nothing, of course, worked as good as that one,” David Foster, who produced and arranged the song for Ms. Houston, said in an interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/s...

New Jersey Congressman’s Aide Faked Anti-Trump Slashing Attack, U.S. Says

Natalie Greene, 26, who worked for Representative Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, falsely claimed she was attacked at a nature reserve, the authorities said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

J.D. Vance, Not That One, Gets 2 Years in Prison for Threatening the Vice President

James Donald Vance Jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich., had also threatened President Trump, according to a criminal complaint. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Football Coach From Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’ Dies After Being Shot

John Beam died after being shot at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., where he was athletic director. A man was charged in connection with the shooting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Football Coach Who Was Focus of Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’ Is Shot

The coaching fixture John Beam was gravely wounded in a shooting at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., a commuter school where he is athletic director, according to a city councilman. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Russian Humanoid Robot Falls on Its Face in Hyped Debut

The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t...

Mike Smith, Bubbles on ‘Trailer Park Boys,’ Is Charged With Sexual Assault

The Canadian cult comedy series announced that Mr. Smith, 53, had “stepped away” from his role on the show. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Trump Pardons Darryl Strawberry, Former Slugger for the Mets and Yankees

The eight-time All-Star baseball player pleaded guilty in 1995 to one count of tax evasion. He was sentenced to six months of home confinement. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Woman Gets 15 Years to Life in Actress’s Death From Silicone Shots

Cindyana Santangelo had an embolism after receiving injections of silicone oil into her buttocks by Libby Adame, the second fatal augmentation procedure connected to her. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Mamdani was elected with a thinner résumé than his predecessors as mayor.

The mayor-elect’s rivals focused on his inexperience during the campaign. Voters appeared to put more weight on his vision. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

New York City Has Not Elected a Mayor This Young in More Than a Century

John Purroy Mitchel, known as the “Boy Mayor,” was three months older than Zohran Mamdani is now when he won office in 1913. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A Rare Visitor to Long Island Is Driving Birders Cuckoo

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.

Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Deputies Put Down 5 Escaped Monkeys They Were Wrongly Told Had Covid

Three other rhesus monkeys were still on the loose as of Wednesday after the truck carrying them rolled over on a highway in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...