50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, ...
US will let more people take methadone at home
The new federal rules allow stable patients to take home 28 days’ worth of methadone. Colorado, New York and Massachusetts ...
Arundhati Roy's first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her ...
From the archives: Eye-popping Times Union images from the Adirondack Balloon Festival
The annual event (weather permitting) passes the half-century mark with this weekend's flights over Queensbury.
Max Verstappen punished for swearing in F1 news conference
Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen was punished Friday for swearing in a news conference in which he argued against greater ...
Joel Embiid signs 3-year, $193 million contract extension with the 76ers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid has signed a three-year contract extension with the Philadelphia 76ers, keeping him with the ...
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson's hamstring injury to be assessed
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has a nagging hamstring injury and could miss Saturday's game ...
Editorial: Secrecy at Albany Med
And it looks like that will continue to be the case until around Oct. 7. By law, the hospital says, the report can be kept ...
Alert: Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb.
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...