Mayweather Released From Jail
Floyd Mayweather Jr. was released from a Las Vegas jail after serving two months of a 90-day sentence for domestic violence, the police said. Mayweather, 35, was freed shortly after midnight, the Las...
View ArticleAmid Inquiry Into Cheating, Stuyvesant Principal Will Retire
The principal of Stuyvesant High School abruptly announced his retirement on Friday afternoon, even as New York City continued its investigation into a cheating scandal that recently rocked the elite...
View ArticleAnother Threat in Pakistan, in Sheep’s Clothing
Washington Related Times Topic: Pakistan Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. COUNTLESS threats...
View ArticleIf Only Our Leaders Had Mariam’s Guts
IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan Damon Winter/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. Go to Blog » Go to...
View ArticlePaternos to Appeal Penalties
Joe Paterno’s family plans to appeal the sanctions imposed by the N.C.A.A. against Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. The family’s lawyer, Wick Sollers, in a letter sent...
View ArticleAIDS in Uganda: Prevention Is Better Than Treatment
To the Editor: Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “In Uganda, an AIDS Success Story Comes...
View ArticleWhat the Locusts Ate
One of the most troubling features of today’s global economic crisis is the lack of political leadership anywhere. No one has the courage to tell their people the truth. And the truth, alas, is that...
View ArticleColorado: University Hires Ex-Prosecutor for Shooting Inquiry
The University of Colorado, Denver, announced on Friday that it had hired Robert N. Miller, a former United States attorney, to conduct a review of its procedures and actions in dealing with James E....
View ArticleOff and Out With Mitt Romney
In a better America, Mitt Romney would be running for president on the strength of his major achievement as governor of Massachusetts: a health reform that was identical in all important respects to...
View ArticleHow to Make Congress Do Its Job: No Budget, No Pay
To the Editor: Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Gail Collins writes (column, Aug. 4), “You are...
View ArticlePeru: More Than 100 Sickened by Toxic Spill at Mine
More than 100 rural Peruvians have been sickened by the spill of a toxic copper concentrate produced at one of the Andean country’s biggest mines, the authorities said Friday. The Ancash State...
View ArticleAfter Boy’s Death, Hospital Alters Procedures for Discharging Patients
NYU Langone Medical Center announced on Wednesday significant changes in its procedures after the death by septic shock of a 12-year-old boy who was sent home from the center with fever and a rapid...
View ArticleNew Jersey Assemblyman Charged With Writing Bad Checks
TRENTON (AP) — A New Jersey assemblyman who once ran for governor was arrested on Friday and charged with writing nearly $400,000 in bad checks from his business accounts to two investors. Connect...
View ArticleUnited Continental Reaches a Deal With Its Pilots
United Continental Holdings said on Friday it had reached an agreement in principle with its pilots’ union, advancing the carrier’s effort to integrate its staff after the 2010 merger creating the...
View ArticleAn Arms Treaty Within Reach
The United States and 192 other countries are nearing the end of negotiations at the United Nations on a global treaty aimed at controlling the trade in conventional weapons. For the first time, there...
View ArticleC.D.C. Reports Outbreak of Swine Flu
Federal health officials reported a new outbreak of swine flu on Friday, mostly among children who appeared to have picked up the virus at county fairs. Sixteen people have become infected with the...
View ArticleObama’s Fantastic Boring Idea
KALANGERA, Malawi Damon Winter/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. Go to Blog » Go to Columnist Page...
View ArticleBritain: Victim’s Parents Convicted
The Pakistani parents of a teenage girl were been found guilty Friday of murdering her after she rebelled against their strict rules and a forced marriage to her cousin. The conviction was aided by...
View ArticleCandidates Cower on Gun Control
At a moment when the country needs resolve and fearlessness to reduce the affliction of gun violence that kills more than 80 people a day, both presidential candidates have kicked away the opportunity...
View ArticleThe Fabric of a Champion
When Missy Franklin stood on the winner’s podium on Monday to receive her gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke in the London Olympics, the folks at Material Connexion, a materials resource company,...
View ArticleQueens Family’s Tale of Loss Prompts New Medical Efforts Nationwide
Long before 12-year-old Rory Staunton set foot in a hospital in March, the paths to the catastrophe awaiting him had been heavily trod. Related About New York: An Infection, Unnoticed, Turns...
View ArticlePalestinian Candor, or a Slip?
To the Editor: Maen Rashid Areikat, a senior Palestinian official, in his July 27 letter rebutting an Op-Ed article that supported Israeli settlements in the West Bank (“Israel’s Settlers Are Here to...
View ArticleMore is not always better in medicine
August 1, 2012 -- Updated 0404 GMT (1204 HKT) Dr. Sanjay Gupta Editor's note: Sanjay Gupta, the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and the chief medical correspondent for CNN,...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Chavis Carter
Let me get this straight: A young man is stopped by police, who find $10 worth of drugs on him; he had twice been searched by officers and then double handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back...
View ArticleNew Orleans Police Case
To the Editor: “New Orleans Police, Mired in Scandal, Accept Plan for Overhaul” (front page, July 24) correctly acknowledges the historic nature of the recent consent decree with the Justice...
View ArticleChina: Muslim Fasting Discouraged
Several local governments in the western region of Xinjiang have ordered Muslim restaurants to stay open during the holy month of Ramadan and are telling civil servants and students to continue to eat...
View ArticleMilitary Hazing Has Got to Stop
Los Angeles Enlarge This Image Owen Freeman Related At War Blog: Army Jury Acquits Sergeant of Driving Pvt. Danny Chen to Suicide in Afghanistan (July 31, 2012) Times Topic: Danny Chen Related in...
View ArticleBelarus: Swedish Envoy Expelled
Belarus has expelled Sweden’s ambassador for “being too supportive of human rights,” Foreign Minister Carl Bildt of Sweden said Friday. Belarus said that it merely chose not to extend the envoy’s...
View ArticleMan Arrested in Brooklyn Shooting That Injured 6
The police on Friday announced the arrest of a suspect in a shooting on Sunday in Brooklyn that left six people injured, including a 2-year-old girl. The suspect, Lawand Tinsley, 19, was charged with...
View ArticleUganda: Ebola Outbreak Slows, Health Official Says
Doctors were slow to respond to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda because symptoms were not always typical, but a World Health Organization official said Friday that the authorities were halting the...
View ArticleThe Long, Uphill Battle Against AIDS
The international AIDS conference in Washington has already made two points clear. There is no prospect that scientists will any time soon find the ultimate solutions to the AIDS epidemic, namely a...
View ArticleVietnam: Death of Detained Blogger’s Mother Investigated
Vietnamese authorities said Friday that they were investigating the self-immolation of the mother of a prominent blogger who is in police custody awaiting trial on charges of conducting propaganda...
View ArticleCloser Scrutiny of For-Profit Schools
The last several weeks have not been particularly restful for the lucrative for-profit education industry. Related Times Topic: For-Profit Schools Related in Opinion Editorial: False Promises (July...
View ArticleCongress Goes Postal
Congress is gone. Yeah, I miss them, too. Earl Wilson/The New York Times Gail Collins Go to Columnist Page » The Conversation David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns.All Conversations »...
View ArticleOccupation, Not Culture, Is Holding Palestinians Back
Nablus, West Bank Related in Opinion Editorial: Mr. Romney Stumps in Israel (July 31, 2012) Times Topics: Middle East | United States Elections Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion...
View ArticleThe Big Banker’s Change of Heart
Sometimes, in a great national debate, the most powerful voices can be those of the converted. Think of Nixon to China or, more recently, President Obama’s declaration of support for same-sex...
View ArticleIs There a ‘July Effect’ in Hospitals?
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Ana Albero Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. In “Don’t Get Sick...
View ArticleIn a Boy’s Fight for His Life, Signs That Went Unheeded
For a moment, an emergency room doctor stepped away from the scrum of people working on Rory Staunton, 12, and spoke to his parents. Related Times Topic: Jim Dwyer Connect with NYTMetro Follow us on...
View ArticleStuck in Place
With 163,000 new jobs created, July’s employment growth topped both analysts’ expectations and the meager job gains in May and June. While that growth was not enough to reduce the jobless rate — now...
View ArticleThose ‘On the Job’ Who Go Unarmed
John Hyland is the epitome of an urban cop, his Bronx accent biting as he names the precincts he’s worked — “the five-oh, the four-eight, all of them.” His street savvy undeniable after 28 years in...
View ArticleThe House Reprimands One of Its Own
At the very least, Representative Laura Richardson could have shown a bit of remorse when the House voted this week to reprimand her for requiring that her staff aides give donations and work for her...
View ArticleA Life Cut Short by a Deadly Infection
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Anna Topuriya Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “An...
View ArticleOne Boy’s Death Moves State to Action to Prevent Others
Prompted by the death of a 12-year-old Queens boy in April, New York health officials are poised to make their state the first in the nation to require that hospitals aggressively look for sepsis in...
View ArticleMentally Retarded and on Death Row
Marvin Wilson, with an I.Q. of 61, is scheduled to be put to death in Texas on Tuesday. His execution would directly contradict the Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling in Atkins v. Virginia that “the mentally...
View ArticleMore Treatment, More Mistakes
DOCTORS make mistakes. They may be mistakes of technique, judgment, ignorance or even, sometimes, recklessness. Regardless of the cause, each time a mistake happens, a patient may suffer. We fail to...
View ArticleTaking Steps to Prevent Medical Errors
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Yehteh Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “More Treatment,...
View ArticlePanama: President Ends Blockade at Newspaper
It took the intervention of President Ricardo Martinelli and the chief of the national police to end a blockade of the newspaper La Prensa for several hours on Friday by scores of workers from one of...
View ArticleHeart Procedures and the Health System
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Anders Nilsen Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. “A Hospital...
View ArticleA Doctor Shortage and the Health Law
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Leigh Guldig Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. “Doctor Shortage...
View ArticleA Focus on AIDS, Past and Present
To the Editor: Enlarge This Image Daniel Zender Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “Imagine a...
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