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Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood's Glamorous Side, Dies at 77

In 2001, for instance, she published “Hollywood Wives: The New Generation,” which followed “Hollywood Wives,” “Hollywood Husbands,” “Hollywood Kids” and “Hollywood Divorces.” It became a New York Times best seller and, in 2003, was made into a TV ... >> view original

Party Rules to Streamline Race May Backfire for GOP

LOS ANGELES — When gloomy Republican Party leaders regrouped after President Obama's 2012 re-election, they were intent on enhancing the party's chances of winning back the White House. The result: new rules to head off a prolonged and divisive ... >> view original

Pope Francis, Arriving in Cuba, Seeks to Revive Church

But as he arrived in Havana on Saturday, the first stop of a nine-day papal trip to Cuba and the United States, Francis faced a new challenge altogether: Having helped open up Cuba to the world, the first Latin American pope must now try to fully open ... >> view original

Subway Series Game 2: Yankees vs. Mets

(Credit: Getty Images / Elsa). Jacoby Ellsbury #22 and Brett Gardner #11 of the New York Yankees celebrate with Carlos Beltran #36 after Beltran drove them all in with a home run in the first inning against the New York Mets on Sept. 19, 2015, at Citi ... >> view original

An Aboriginal Artist's Dizzying New York Moment

For at least the last century, it has always been a momentous occasion: An artist from the hinterlands arrives in New York for the first time, hoping for what the writer Willie Morris called “the tender security of fulfillment.” But for the painter ... >> view original

Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid Are a Work of Art in New York City

While the Lower East Side's Hotel Chantelle gladly agreed to host the project (which took four hours to complete), Theodore says that early discussions encouraged images of more designers in honor of New York Fashion Week. Instead, he went with his gut ... >> view original

New York Today: It's Showtime

[New York Times]. • Traffic fatalities and new bike lanes dropped under Mayor de Blasio in the last year. [Capital New York]. • For a global look at what's happening, see Your Friday Briefing. COMING UP TODAY. • Hear some poetry from the new anthology, ... >> view original

Horror Drove Her From South. 100 Years Later, She Returned.

To western New York, where she and her steelworker husband had nine children, and the one miscarriage she always includes in her account. Now, after many decades of saying she didn't even want to see Mississippi on a map, Ms. Kirkland was here for ... >> view original

Baseball player in critical condition after New York drive-by shooting

Michael Nolan of Yonkers, New York, was shot once in the head and twice in the body while he was standing with a group of people in a Burger King parking lot, said Yonkers Police spokesman Lieutenant Patrick McCormack. He said the suspect was in a ... >> view original

Thousands of Migrants Flood Into Austria

LONDON — Thousands of migrants poured into Austria on Saturday after being bounced around countries overwhelmed by their arrival and insistent that they keep moving. Hungary — which had taken the most draconian and visible measures to turn back ... >> view original