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Several people were shot on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station during the Tuesday morning rush, officials said, a violent episode that heightened simmering fears about public safety that have hindered New York City’s push to recover from the pandemic. Preliminary reports indicated that five people were shot, a…

Colin Jost, one of the stars of “Saturday Night Live,” has ridden the Staten Island Ferry across New York Harbor many times. But Monday he rode one for the first time as its owner. Mr. Jost and his castmate Pete Davidson, both of whom grew up on Staten Island, have…

HOUSTON — The trouble started with an argument between two drivers merging in slow traffic after an Astros baseball game last summer. It ended with two gunshots, fired from a moving Buick and exploding through the glass of a fleeing Ford pickup truck. The bullets missed the truck’s driver, Paul…

The San Francisco headquarters of Yelp, which has just over 200 employees in Texas but will offer its new benefit to workers in any state.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York Times Yelp is expected to announce Tuesday that it will cover expenses for its employees and their spouses who must travel out…

LONDON — Ingrid Pollard, a pioneering Black female photographer, and Veronica Ryan, a Black sculptor who found widespread recognition in her 60s, are among the nominees for this year’s Turner Prize, the prestigious British visual arts award. The four-strong shortlist was announced on Tuesday in an online news conference at…

Covid outbreaks in elite circles in Washington, D.C., and on Broadway have received a lot of media attention in recent days, but they appear to be only one part of a broader regional rise in infections: States in the Northeast are now reporting an uptick in cases. Last week, this…

Philadelphia’s new indoor mask mandate will begin next week.Credit…Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times With new coronavirus cases low but rising sharply in recent days, the city of Philadelphia announced on Monday that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate a little more than a month after lifting it,…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As Sri Lankans waited hours in line for fuel, sweated through the springtime heat during daily power cuts, and watched the value of their incomes erode, the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, blamed forces beyond his control. “This crisis was not created by me,” he said in an…

Europe has benefited from relatively cheap natural gas from Russia for decades. But for all the talk now of diversifying away from this supply, the plain reality is that it will not be easy to find alternatives. It will be a yearslong undertaking. The continent imports roughly 40 percent of…

The mother’s hands were shaking when she started writing on her 2-year-old’s body. They trembled so much that she couldn’t write correctly on her first try, even though the information was second nature: Her daughter’s name, Vira, along with her birth date and their family phone numbers. “I thought that…