On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
Almost seven million people were being told to boil their water as another barrage of sleet and snow approached. FEMA has sent the state bottled water, blankets and generators.
Democratic lawmakers have begun to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of virus-related nursing home deaths, and the governor also faces a federal inquiry.
The glamour of New York nightlife helped the designer build an empire. Now he is accused of sexual misconduct on the club scene.
Not long ago, the question was rarely asked. Now, politicians and economists of various stripes are willing to consider it.
As New York’s working-class neighborhoods shrink, so does the space for keeping pigeons.
More than 160 participants in a master’s program funded by the Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman have urged him to stop donating to election objectors. He has declined.
Frances McDormand hits the road in Chloé Zhao’s intimate, expansive portrait of itinerant lives.
Power failures have cast a spotlight on whether energy companies and regulators are doing enough to prepare for climate change and natural disasters.
Cicely Tyson, who died in January, was famous all over the world. But her heart was at home, in Harlem.
An education program is immersing underprivileged students in Ivy League classes, and the students’ success has raised questions about how elite university gatekeepers determine college prospects.
An urgent show at the New Museum — both a monument to a resilient culture and a memorial to what’s lost through racism — will surely rank as one of the most important of 2021.
Perseverance’s arrival extends the successful U.S. landing record on the planet, and brings sophisticated tools to the hunt for alien life.