January 2, 2018

Advocates have sued to block the city’s bid to redevelop an East Harlem ballpark, citing legal protections for parkland. City officials say the lot is just a playground, not a park.

The last year gave us some whopping deals, including Amazon.com’s acquisition of Whole Foods, that will shape the business landscape in 2018.

Mr. Martins had been accused of sexual harassment as well as physical and verbal abuse.

A gelatin made from donkey hides is prized as a traditional Chinese remedy. Now slaughterhouses have opened in Africa, and domestic animals are disappearing from villages.

Studies point to a simple reason, the prices, not to the amount of care. And lowering prices would upset a lot of people in the health industry.

Two new books, by Martin Puchner and Abigail Williams, explore how literature has shaped human society.

The Isle of Youth — which has been both a Communist Utopian getaway and home to a brutal prison that housed Castro for a time — is a world apart, even by Cuban standards.

Single and restless on a frigid New Year’s Eve, our writer set out on a New York culture crawl: Cardi B, contra dancing, Bargemusic, a 1990s-themed party and more.

The demonstrations that have spread to dozens of Iranian cities were set off by miscalculations in a long-simmering internal power struggle.

Ms. Kotb, a longtime NBC News correspondent, has filled in since Mr. Lauer was fired in November over allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

The authorities have told the popular service Toutiao to clean up salacious material, illustrating the balance required to meet China’s voracious demand.

The silence from chefs and owners has been deafening, but they need to admit and address the sexual predation that seems endemic to the business.