July 2, 2011

Marathon swimming, a 1920s sensation, is enjoying a renaissance in New York, where open-water competitions are held almost every summer weekend.

The city’s efforts to stop using endangered tropical hardwoods as it replaces the Coney Island Boardwalk’s planks raise aesthetic, pragmatic and linguistic issues.

The Yankees struck early against the Mets, who left 11 runners on base, in a crosstown matchup of surging teams.

A phone call a housekeeper made after she said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn was part of a series of statements, fabrications and associations that unraveled the case.

New evidence indicates that Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen and the Islamist militancy in Somalia are possibly plotting attacks against the United States.