In the early hours of Wednesday, April 1, police in Queens responded to a frantic call about gunfire inside an apartment on 84th Street. Officers discovered two young people, an 18‑year‑old woman and a 20‑year‑old man, both fatally wounded. The victims were reported to be in a relationship and share
A wave of heavy rain that started on March 6 has swept across Kenya, leaving a trail of damage and loss. The police have updated the death count to 108 people, showing how deadly the floods can be. Cars and trucks have been washed away, and flights were grounded because of swollen rivers. P
The puzzle that pops up on The Athletic each day is a quick brain‑teaser about sports. It’s called Connections: Sports Edition, and it shows up only in The Athletic’s own app or on its website, not in the NYT Games app. Every puzzle gives you four groups of words that share a common theme, and th
Bank of America’s analyst Ming‑Hsun Lee has refreshed his view on the Chinese tech firm Pony AI Inc. , keeping a Buy rating and suggesting a target price of HK$148. 00 for the stock. Lee’s focus is on consumer‑cyclical companies, and he has a solid track record: an average return of 16. 5 % and a su
The new season of a true‑crime series set in New York has taken the streaming world by storm, climbing to the top spot on Netflix in the United States and ranking fourth globally. The show is produced by a well‑known television creator who has built a reputation around crime dramas, now expanding in
Most flat-screen TVs sound thin because their speakers are squeezed into tiny boxes. That’s why companies sell soundbars. Sony’s lineup just got fresh upgrades. The old top models—Bar 8 and Bar 9—keep leading the pack because they handle immersive formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. But Sony added t
The popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, recently bought a teen‑focused banking app called Step. This move has caught the eye of lawmakers and sparked debate about the safety of letting young people handle money online. Step is not a bank itself, but it partners with an FDIC‑i
A video filmed over Queens shows three bright lights moving in a triangle. The clip lasts 18 seconds and ends with the lights disappearing suddenly. Witnesses say the motion is too precise for any known aircraft. The camera operator, who also flies drones, thinks ordinary planes or hobbyist robots
Two scientists just got a major award for turning weird physics into useful tools. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard didn’t just study quantum quirks—they turned them into a way to send messages that even hackers can’t crack. Their work in the late 1980s showed how particles could carry informatio
The chikungunya virus has come back in some overseas areas of France and on the mainland, which worries health officials about a possible spread to French Polynesia. Scientists studied how people mix in the islands and found that certain patterns could let the virus travel more easily. For exa
