Help! Air France Lost My Fencing Gear and Won’t Pay for It.

A Team USA fencer out more than $2,700 faced months of maddening red tape and was even flagged by the airline’s fraud department in his pursuit of a reimbursement.

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A Month Without Data Muddles the Economic Picture

Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has made the situation much worse.

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Why Thousands of Trees and Shrubs Are Coming to Prospect Park

After a wildfire last year, the park is regreening. This fall has been dry, though not as dry as last year when the blaze hit the Ravine.

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Andrew Cuomo, Scraping and Scrambling, Is Still Running as Andrew Cuomo

The former governor, a distant second in most polls of the New York City mayor’s race, is working harder to attract voters and remind them who he is.

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What New Jersey Could Reveal About the Future of the Hispanic Vote

An off-year governor’s race will test the durability of the gains President Trump made in 2024, when the state’s majority-Hispanic townships all swung in his direction.

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Trump’s Search for Eternity: Heaven? Maybe Not, He Says. Monuments? Absolutely.

After a lifetime of scandal, the president expresses doubt that he will be admitted to paradise. But he appears increasingly intent on finding other paths to eternity.

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Inmates Win $6 Million Settlement for Abuse Claims Against Prison Officers

The inmates said the officers carried out a weekslong campaign of violence in 2020 at the state’s lone maximum security prison.

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Trump and Xi, Hoping to Ease Trade War, Agree to 1-Year Truce

China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth metals, while the U.S. halved its fentanyl-related tariffs.

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Trump and Xi Ease Off the Trade War, but New Nuclear Threat Brings a Chill

The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths, at least for a year. But even as the global trade picture cleared a little, Mr. Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation.

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