Author: News Polite

Vaccination and masking requirements, long gone in many parts of the country, have been falling away in New York City; on March 7, the city dropped rules requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining at restaurants, for example. Other settings, including movie theaters as well as some comedy, sports and…

An Olympic dressage coach accused of shooting his student was acquitted of attempted murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity in a case that stunned the elite dressage community. Michael Barisone, 57, an Olympic rider, said that he was defending himself when he shot Lauren Kanarek twice in…

Officials are investigating the death of a woman who became stuck upside down as she tried to cross into the United States from Mexico over a 30-foot-high steel border fence in southeastern Arizona on Monday. The woman, 32, was “ensnared” on the fence just west of Douglas, Ariz., according to…

“For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact on our air and water, the needs of tribal nations, and, moreover, other uses of our shared public lands,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said. “Today,…

WASHINGTON — For weeks in late 2020, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, cheered on President Donald J. Trump’s effort to fight his election defeat, privately offering up “a group of ready and loyal advocates who will go to bat for him.” In text messages to Mark Meadows, then the…

His interest in music began not with pianos but with the viola and the violin. He studied at academies in Cologne and Detmold and, in his 20s, played guitar and mandolin in German dance bands. He was playing Dixieland music one night when he spotted a woman on the dance…