A terrifying amusement park accident in Taif, Saudi Arabia, left at least 23 people injured when a pendulum ride called 360 Degrees snapped in half on Thursday. The incident occurred at Green Mountain Park, where riders were strapped into chairs on a revolving ride that swings up and down. Suddenly, the ride’s central pole broke, […]

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 shook the Inland Empire Thursday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 9:32 a.m. The epicenter was roughly 4 miles northwest of Rialto, at a depth of roughly 3 miles. Latest California Earthquakes. Please wait a moment for map to load. Use controls or your thumb […]

Manhattan: Marc Molinaro’s op-ed (“Crime in the subway is real by any name,” July 25) is fear-mongering. He claims to like statistics, and he plays with percentages to show a “dangerous and growing surge” in violence.

Dear Eric: My 30-year-old son is severely physically disabled due to a debilitating muscle disease. He requires 100 percent assistance with all life functions. He does not have any cognitive disabilities, is very intelligent and earned a bachelor’s degree. My husband retired a couple of years ago and is his main caregiver. People who are likely well-intentioned, […]

Time after time Wednesday night, the Yankees avoided defeat.

The Moscow apartment bombings of September 1999 are held to be Vladimir Putin’s original sin, the moment when hundreds of Russians died in their beds to boost his flagging poll numbers. The Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova understood that the Russian security services’ black operation had provided the casus belli for a second Chechen […]

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If it matters, which it doesn’t, the plot of the American multiform artist Tom Comitta’s new novel is a loose picaresque: a narrator seeks a magical snuff box, has a relationship with a woman named Catherine and ends up duelling an aristocrat. The reason the plot doesn’t matter is that Patchwork is obsessed with its […]

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Wickerwork is the first trans­lation of the German poet and priest Christian Lehnert into English. The bilingual edition includes selections from three of his most recent collections: Opus 8, Im Flechtwerk (Opus 8, Wickerwork, 2022), Cherubinischer Staub (Cherub Dust, 2018), and Windzüge (Windstrokes, 2015). Lehnert was born in 1969 in Dresden, in the former East […]

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