Amtrak’s new Acela trains, called NextGen, are four years late arriving for passengers on the Boston-New York-Washington route, but still most Amtrak passengers on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) will never be able to use them. That can and must change and Amtrak should deploy the 28 new trainsets for all riders on their busiest line instead of the second class service they offer the vast majority of their own customers on the Corridor.

Dear Eric: My husband and son are both on the autism spectrum. We brought our son a sofa from IKEA and left it in his house. It needs to be assembled along with hanging curtains and installing the curtain rods. We are both 75. Our son works full time and is finishing up his master’s […]

The mayhem began with two people shot around 5:35 p.m. near Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights; one man in his 20s was shot in the leg and a woman in her 40s suffered a graze wound to her lower back, cops said.

I am still – at a snail’s pace – shelving the books that came home from my work office three years ago (four a day, or 120 a month, is my relaxed target). A few days ago, I came across a very distinctive one. It was a rather austere German volume from the late 1980s […]

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An investigation is underway after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man who she’d met on a dating app, and who may have “catfished” her. The assault happened around 3:20 a.m. Sunday morning at a hotel in West Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded to a local medical […]

Thousands of residents gathered Monday for the 46th Annual Labor Day Parade, Picnic and Rally in Wilmington, an event hosted by the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition. The day began with parade assembly at 8 a.m. at Broad and E streets. The procession starts at 10 a.m., traveling along E Street to Avalon Boulevard […]

Labor Day this year takes on a special and urgent significance. As we honor the sacrifices that generations of workers made to secure our most basic rights and freedoms, we are also facing some of the most significant threats to progress in modern times.

Labor day in America is a necessary observance of the ongoing struggle for workers’ rights. While some know about the pivotal role of Jewish immigrant women in that history, many don’t. They were the backbone of our labor movement, paving the way for protections we enjoy today.

Dear Eric: One of my best friends, who is a lesbian, just met a girl two weeks ago and they’ve already said “I love you” to each other. The other girl seems genuinely lovely, and my friend is very happy, which makes me happy! Not only is this moving very quickly, but the other girl […]