Last Top Stories: New York Times alters Clinton email story - POLITICO

New York Times alters Clinton email story - POLITICO

The New York Times made small but significant changes to an exclusive report about a potential criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's State Department email account late Thursday night, but provided no notification of or explanation for of the ... >> view original

New York Today: Love in the Hot Season - The New York Times

New Jersey Transit trains are delayed by as much as 30 minutes to Pennsylvania Station. It's the fourth day this week that Amtrak electrical problems have caused a disruption. Paris may be called the city of love, but it turns out that New York has its ... >> view original

Anthem to Buy Cigna Amid Wave of Insurance Mergers - The New York Times

The health insurer Anthem said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire its rival Cigna for $48.3 billion in a deal that would further concentrate the United States market to just a few major players. The combined company would have estimated revenue of ... >> view original

Lafayette, Louisiana, Gunman Identified as 'Drifter' - The New York Times

LAFAYETTE, La. — The gunman who killed two women and wounded nine people in a theater here Thursday night was a 59-year-old drifter from Alabama who was estranged from his family and appeared to have made getaway plans, law enforcement ... >> view original

China's Global Ambitions, With Loans and Strings Attached - The New York Times

CreditIvan Kashinsky for The New York Times. While China has been important to the world economy for decades, the country is now wielding its financial heft with the confidence and purpose of a global superpower. With the center of financial gravity ... >> view original

Fast Food Franchise Owners Consider Suing N.Y. Over Minimum Wage - NBC News

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to have it his way with New York's fast-food industry — and restaurant owners aren't loving it. Franchise owners say they're considering a lawsuit against Cuomo's plan to raise the minimum wage in their eateries to ... >> view original

New Gawker will be '20 percent nicer,' Denton tells staff | Capital New York

That's what Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton told Gawker.com employees yesterday, during a meeting at the Crown Victoria bar in Williamsburg. According to a staffer in attendance, Denton initially said that the new version of the site should be "20 percent ... >> view original

Your Friday Briefing - The New York Times

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Mass shooting at movie theater. Two moviegoers were killed and nine were wounded when a man opened fire during a showing of the comedy ... >> view original

What Home Means to New York's Oldest Old - The New York Times

At the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, in the Bronx, Helen Moses, 90, had news. “There's not going to be a wedding,” she said. It was an afternoon in June, just one month since Ms. Moses had announced her plans to marry Howie Zeimer, the man down the hall. >> view original

The Debate On Uber's Impact In New York City Is Far From Over | FiveThirtyEight

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Uber stepped back from their confrontation Wednesday, a day before the City Council was set to vote on the mayor's proposed cap to the growth of the for-hire vehicle company and its rivals. For now, at least, the city ... >> view original