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During his campaign for mayor last year, Mr. Adams said he planned to convert about 700 underutilized hotels into permanent housing. The hotel conversions have been on hold since last fall, when the city’s Law Department issued a technical ruling involving hotel occupancy regulations that nonprofit housing developers say effectively…

Facing an intensifying backlash from political parties and business groups, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Friday ended his policy of inspecting all commercial vehicles crossing into the state from Mexico, a time-consuming process that had caused traffic jams of 14 hours or more at the border. Mr. Abbott said…

Activision Blizzard, the video game maker set to be sold to Microsoft for nearly $70 billion, said in a legal filing on Friday that it would cooperate with an investigation into whether some of the company’s investors engaged in insider trading before the deal’s announcement. The company said it had…

WASHINGTON — The Moskva was the pride of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a symbol of the country’s dominance of the region and a powerful war machine that had been used to launch precision cruise missiles deep inside Ukraine. Despite claims by Russia that an accidental fire broke out on the…

On Friday, Twitter countered Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for more than $43 billion with a corporate tool known as a poison pill, a defensive strategy familiar to boardrooms trying to fend off takeovers but less familiar to everyday investors. This defense mechanism was developed in the 1980s…

“He wasn’t making direct threats,” he said. “James is an intelligent person. But he was making very angry comments, with lots of expletives. Scary stuff.” “We called the Elizabeth police because some of our people were really scared,” Mr. Storch said. Mr. James appeared to resent mental health treatment: In…

The conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to adopt new state legislative maps drawn by Republicans who control the Legislature, reversing its earlier decision that favored maps drawn by the state’s Democratic governor. The court acted after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its previous decision last month,…

Sarah Bolton maneuvers in the air for a living, using silks and hammocks to defy gravity at heights of up to 25 feet. The sensation of being in the air, she said, is often one of empowerment, an extension of childhood fantasies becoming adult realities. Bolton runs the aerial arts…

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