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He was seen as greed incarnate and never said otherwise. Marianne Boesky was in college in Vermont when federal marshals delivered her infamous 51-year-old father, Ivan, to the Lompoc federal [...]

Last February, the billionaire financier Nelson Peltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly Republican donors and a handful of G.O.P. strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront [...]

On the afternoon of Oct. 21, 2021, Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney for New Mexico's First Judicial District, was driving along a lonely stretch of the mountain highway connecting Santa [...]

There was anxiety in the thin mountain air when the planet's economic leaders gathered in January at Davos for the 54th meeting of the World Economic Forum. Donald Trump had [...]

If you're tired of the endless manufactured arguments by modern sports personalities, his midnight ''SportsCenter'' is a safe harbor. Scott Van Pelt materializes onscreen five nights a week at midnight [...]

The director was equal parts exacting and reckless. William Friedkin B. 1935 A director who was equal parts exacting and reckless, he made car chases into art. The stuntman Buddy [...]

It was April 2022, and David Zaslav had just closed the deal of a lifetime. From the helm of his relatively small and unglamorous cable company, Discovery, he had taken [...]

When the former secretary of state and C.I.A. director Mike Pompeo, a man who had dealt firsthand with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, described Randi Weingarten as ''the [...]

''American Caliph,'' by Shahan Mufti, recounts the complex story of a largely forgotten episode from 1977, when an armed Muslim group held dozens of people hostage. AMERICAN CALIPH: The True [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Wisconsin's 51st Assembly District lies in the southwest part of the [...]

The article delves into Jamie Dimon's reassurance to economic leaders at Davos regarding Donald Trump's policies, acknowledging their concerns but also signaling potential shifts in a second Trump term. Topics include Dimon's praise for Trump's economic policies, concerns about a more populist Trump administration, and warnings about potential disruptions to the global economic order.

The pandemic revealed deep divides and inequities that have plagued New York for decades. As the city opens back up, its next era could heal those divisions -- or make [...]

Donald Trump's potential criminal liability is the key to understanding his presidency. When he leaves office, it will present the country with a historic dilemma. Early in November, as President [...]

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Gretchen Whitmer first heard the word ''coronavirus'' over the 2019 Christmas holidays [...]

The article from the New York Times Magazine explores the life of Ivan Boesky, a prominent figure in Wall Street known for insider trading. Boesky's rise to fame and subsequent fall from grace are detailed, including his time in prison and divorce from his wife. The article also touches on his daughter's perspective on his legacy and the lack of a presidential pardon compared to other financial criminals. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses Scott Van Pelt's tenure as the anchor of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network's (ESPN) late-night "SportsCenter" and his unique approach to sports broadcasting, emphasizing intelligence, charm, and humor over loudness and provocation. Topics include the evolution of sports media commentary, ESPN's response to competition and streaming challenges, and the shift towards more outspoken personalities in sports broadcasting.

In the middle of September, shortly before the House of Representatives opened its impeachment inquiry against President Trump, I started texting with his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, to try to [...]

This is Part 3 of a three-part story. Go back and read Part 1 and Part 2. 14. 'You'll be hearing from me' It was in the midst of this [...]

PART 1: IMPERIAL REACH 1. 'I love all of my children' Rupert Murdoch was lying on the floor of his cabin, unable to move. It was January 2018, and Murdoch [...]

This is P art 2 of a three-part story . Go back and r ead Part 1 . 8. 'The highest standards of corporate conduct' In a matter of months, [...]

The article focuses on the role of Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the influence of teachers' unions in shaping America's educational and political landscapes. Topics include the shifting educational landscape due to the pandemic and culture wars, the growing support for school choice and voucher programs, and the polarization surrounding teachers' unions' involvement in partisan politics with intersection of education in the U.S.

Ben Frisch opened his Feb. 14 pre-calculus class at Friends Seminary the same way that he opened all his classes over the course of his 34 years at the private [...]

On the day after Thanksgiving in 2016, Ed Corrigan, then the vice president for policy promotion at the Heritage Foundation, was summoned to Trump Tower in New York to join [...]

Long before it became an archaic, filthy, profligate symbol of everything wrong with our broken cities, New York's subway was a marvel -- a mad feat of engineering and an [...]

'Read this, what he writes,'' Jay Goldberg instructed, pointing at a typewritten letter hanging inside a large frame on the living-¡room wall of his Upper East Side penthouse. I read [...]

FEAR CITY New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics By Kim Phillips-Fein Illustrated. 401 pp. Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt & Company. $32. In 1847, the president of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAt 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington, CNN's largest control room was mostly empty but for a handful of producers hunched over control panels and, hovering behind [...]

It wasn't an email from God, but it was close. Leonard Cohen had written to ask if Gideon Zelermyer, the cantor of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim near Montreal -- Cohen's childhood [...]

No one would argue that Edgar Welch, the 28-year-old North Carolina man who loaded his car with weapons in early December and drove 350 miles to liberate the children he [...]

THE CONFIDENCE GAME Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time By Maria Konnikova 340 pp. Viking. $28. Have you ever been the victim of a con? I [...]

Mark Bowden was watching a ballgame -- the Phillies versus the Mets -- on the night of May 1, 2011, when the network cut away to President Obama in the [...]

LOST IN THE SUN By Lisa Graff 289 pp. Philomel Books. $16.99. (Middle grade; ages 8 to 12) The title of this simple yet soulful novel refers to a fly [...]

The article reports on the director William Friedkin's approach to filmmaking, particularly his obsession with creating car chase scenes as an art form, showcasing both his exacting and reckless nature. It explores Friedkin's background, his breakthrough with film "The French Connection," and his rise in Hollywood, as well as the challenges and setbacks he faced, including the success of film "To Live and Die in L.A." and the impact of film "Sorcerer" on his career.

1973 The pews of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary church in Rochester, N.H., were packed on a cool, damp Saturday in October for a memorial for James Foley. The [...]

In this article the author talks about the Retch En Whitmer who heard the word "coronavirus" over the 2019 Christmas holidays from her younger sister, who a decade earlier contracted H1N1, and Whitme, a year into office and preoccupied with her agenda for 2020 barely registered it. It mentions that She was in a hurry to push forward on some of her campaign promises, like introducing an array of new education programs and repairing Michigan's badly potholed roads.

The article offers information on the first Covid-19 case was diagnosed in New York on March 1, 2020 and within two weeks, more than 100 new patients were pouring into the city's hospitals every day, many in critical condition or days, then weeks, including the archipelago of New York's public hospitals stretches from the shore front of Coney Island to the top of the Bronx; and Health care workers gathered in the emergency department as they face a deluge of coronavirus patients.