Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Ms. Magazine. The brutality we are witnessing in Minnesota, at the hands of thousands of poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men who have full reign to hunt and harass anyone who is non-white, is nothing short of state-sponsored terror. It is a horrific illustration of what unfettered power […]

Authorities announced Wednesday that one person was found dead following a possible fireworks explosion that also left two people injured at a Bell Gardens apartment building Tuesday night. Multiple people reported hearing the blast shortly after 6 p.m. in the 6500 block of Purdy Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Arriving Bell […]

A dramatic helicopter rescue unfolded live Wednesday morning after a black SUV plunged roughly 100 to 150 feet off Mulholland Drive in Studio City, landing upside down in dense brush and triggering a massive response from Los Angeles firefighters. Sky5 captured the entire operation from overhead as more than a dozen rescuers rappelled down the […]

Police are searching for the driver of a Maserati who struck and killed an 80‑year‑old man and his dog in a hit‑and‑run crash in Sherman Oaks late Tuesday night. The collision was reported around 11:30 p.m. in the 4400 block of Woodman Avenue. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the pedestrian and his dog […]

Authorities are in pursuit of a stolen U-Haul truck in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. Sky5 was overhead as the truck traveled near the Los Angeles International Airport. It was unclear when the pursuit began or where the truck was stolen from. Check back for updates on this developing story.

The legal fallout has only just begun.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams last week toured sites of buildings owned by those he tarred as the city’s worst landlords. His annual publicity stunt included a grandstanding visit to 80 Woodruff Ave. in Queens, among 80 buildings he called out, demonizing an owner which said it is struggling with rising property taxes, insurance costs and tenants who don’t pay rent, even when it makes upgrades.

How Max Stein turns influence into profits.

Catriona Byers, a first-time author from Fife in Scotland, has won the new £2000 Elizabeth Longford Brief Lives 2025 Award for younger writers with an essay on Clovis Pierre, a poet and city morgue official in nineteenth-century Paris. Simon Schama presented Catriona Byers with the £2000 Award at an Elizabeth Longford Night of History on January 26 […]

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Wellwater, with which Karen Solie won both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for 2025 and in which the poem “Lilac” is collected, having first appeared in the TLS in 2023, was described in the Guardian as “a blazingly honest catalogue of human-made hazard and harm”. But although it is full of the kind […]

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