[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Drone as First Responder programs in places like Redondo Beach and Clovis, Calif., are seeking waivers that would allow them to fly beyond the operators’ line of sight. In Clovis, the Police Department has found that its drones tend to overheat at the height...
NY Times Editorial Page Editor Resigns Amid Fury Over Op-Ed
NEW YORK — The New York Times’ editorial page editor resigned Sunday after the newspaper disowned an opinion piece by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton that advocated using federal troops to quell unrest, and it was later revealed he hadn't read the piece prior to publication. James Bennet resigned and his...
Watchdog: Comey Violated FBI Policies in Handling of Memos
WASHINGTON — James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump in the weeks before he was fired as director of the bureau, the Justice Department's inspector general said Thursday. The watchdog's office said Comey broke FBI rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to...
Is U.S. News Media Covering Up Casualties Inflicted by Israel?
Author Alison Weir remembers supporting Israel as a young person growing up in a military family. "I was sympathetic to Israel," she said. "I had seen (the movie) 'Exodus' with Paul Newman and was aware of the Nazi atrocities." At the time, Weir paid little attention to the country's spiraling...
Trump Acknowledges Over $1 Billion in Tax Write Offs, Calls It ‘Sport’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged taking massive tax write offs for real estate losses topping $1 billion from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, calling it "sport" among developers like himself during that period. Trump was reacting to a New York Times report Tuesday that his businesses lost more...
King's Speech Inspires Writer to Break Silence on Palestine
One year before his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King took a strong, public stand against the Vietnam war. NY Times opinion writer Michelle Alexander says most of King's closest advisors advised him to stay silent on the topic or soften his criticism. "They knew that if he told...
NYT Shines Bright Light on Killing of Palestinian Medic
Are you trying to make sense of the deadly, seemingly neverending violence between Israel and the Palestinians? David M. Halbfinger, who is the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times, points to the killing last June of 20-year-old Rouzan al-Najjar, a volunteer Palestinian medic in the Gaza Strip, as an...
US Calls for Yemen Cease-Fire, Political Talks
WASHINGTON — At an apparent turning point in one of its hardest foreign policy challenges, the Trump administration is demanding a cease-fire and the launch of U.N.-led political talks to end the Saudi-Iran proxy war in Yemen. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called for a halt to hostilities within 30 days....
Trump's '$1 Million Loan' From Dad Was $413M Inheritance
NEW YORK — The New York Times reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump received at least $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud. The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump's portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just a...
Is Amazon's Size and Influence a Good Thing? Economists Debate.
What is a monopsony? Economists describe the concept as "the outsize power of a few consolidated employers," the New York Times reports. They are also exploring the "Amazon Effect." Just this week, the online behemoth announced a $15 an hour minimum wage for all employees. Read the Times story about...