When we visit city streets, shops or malls during the holiday season, is it spending money that we like? Or is it about experiencing our surroundings?
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Snowstorms that sweep across the Great Lakes can dump several feet of snow on the other side. A climate scientists explains why.
Flash flooding can happen in both urban and rural areas, with deadly results in either setting.
A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are on the rise.
The regionalism that fuels the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is also found in U.S. attitudes about energy production, a new study shows. That could have repercussions for the renewable energy transition.
Study after study has shown that stadiums are terrible public investments. Taxpayers rarely want to pay for them. So why do governments keep subsidizing them?
A hurricane that wreaked havoc from Louisiana to New York City, the Texas freeze and devastating western wildfires topped NOAA’s list of billion-dollar disasters in 2021.
What can we take away from this epic fail of a reboot as a society that continues to undervalue women and shun open discussions of age, class, race and sex?
Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out – they are deadlier, and their demographics are different – as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
In the late 19th century, a satiric weekly stoked fears about how Jewish immigrants would change New York City’s character.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that you have a constitutional right to have a gun in your home. Now, the justices will consider how far outside of the home that right extends.
At issue is the right to carry handguns in public, not just keep them at home.
While surveys have shown a large share of unvaccinated workers threatening to quit over a mandate, the reality is few actually do.
Images of water gushing into subway stations filled social media following heavy rain in New York City. Solutions are at hand – but it takes money and political will, an expert explains.
The need for social distancing sparked a cycling boom, cutting air pollution and boosting city dwellers’ mental and physical health. But when the pandemic ends, will it be back to life as usual?
The story of the Scottish diaspora has been well told in print. Now a new audio book brings emigrant stories to life in their own words.
Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but a New York appeals court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.
Only one American president – Grover Cleveland – has lost reelection and then won back his office.
The coronavirus epidemic has made us all rethink our workspaces. But the needs of the times have always influenced the office space – whether for the colonial empire or a growing commerce.
States have been experimenting with more targeted approaches to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Two strategies stand out.
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