New York Today: Au Revoir, A-Rod
But don’t expect any confusion at Yankee Stadium tonight, when the Bronx Bombers host the Tampa Bay Rays.“Yankees fans recognize that this is one of the all-time greats,” our writer added about Mr. Rodriguez.“You can expect universal applause and a groundswell of pure love for a great player.”See for yourself, starting at 7:05 p.m.Here’s what else is happening:Weather We just can’t catch a break this week, can we?More scattered showers and thunderstorms are on the way today, but they’ll be..>> view originalHow Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Differ on Taxes
Mr. Trump also advocates lowering the tax rate on all business income to 15 percent — and has advocated that the rate apply to all sorts of businesses, including partnerships and sole proprietorships. That opens up room for people to find ways to turn what is now taxed as individual income into “pass-through” business income at that low 15 percent rate, especially those in position to hire tax lawyers to help them figure out the details.For example, an executive who is paid $1 million in salary..>> view originalBaltimore Police, Simone Manuel, Simone Biles: Your Friday Briefing
Photo In the shadow of the Rio Olympics, a slow-burning war between drug gangs and the nation’s security forces is taking place. Credit Lalo de Almeida for 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:• Unmentioned on the campaign trail.Neither of the major-party candidates has said much about helping Americans who are living in abject poverty. On Thursday, Hillary Clinton called Donald J. Trump an..>> view originalMichael Phelps's 13th Individual Gold Breaks an Ancient Record
After homegrown swimmers like Thiago Pereira in the I.M., the partisan crowds at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium have reserved their second most-raucous cheers for Phelps. He may be an honorary Brazilian but he is forevermore a Baltimorean. The city that raised and shaped Phelps paid its own tribute to its native son on Thursday by showing his I.M. race on the jumbo video screen at M&T Bank Stadium during the second half of the Baltimore Ravens’ preseason game against the Carolina Panthers.It was ..>> view originalHunting in Pink: New York Adds Another Color for Safety (and to ...
Photo New York is the third state to allow hunters to wear solid or patterned fluorescent pink attire for safety. Credit Legendary Whitetails Pink is the new orange for young hunters in New York, who can now wear the color for safety under an updated law that advocates said was meant to attract more women and girls to a sport dominated by men.The law previously required junior hunters — 14- or 15-year-olds — and their adult mentors to wear a shirt, jacket or cap with at..>> view originalRio Olympics: Simone Manuel Makes History in the Pool
Both Manuel and Oleksiak had to come from behind to take the victory on Thursday night. Manuel was third at the halfway mark, while Oleksiak was seventh at the turn.At the finish, Manuel looked at the scoreboard and seemed surprised and thrilled, covering her mouth with her hand.“I was pretty shocked,” said Manuel, who is from Sugar Land, Tex., and attends Stanford. “My goal coming in was to get on the medal stand after seeing how I swam in prelims and semifinals. But getting a gold medal in my..>> view originalParker Sawyers Summons His Inner Obama
One night, when Mr. Sawyers was in high school, Ms. Means hosted a political fund-raiser at the family house and forced her son to stay in the basement, because of his dreadlocks. “I was a staunch Republican, and Indiana is five years late on everything,” she said in a phone interview. “I didn’t want my conservative friends to be exposed to dreadlocks!” Mr. Sawyers said, “I was listening to a lot of Wu-Tang then.”Occasionally, Mr. Sawyers’s grandmother told him that if he didn’t get his act tog..>> view originalHow Lincoln Centers 1000 Singers United New York Dek
This weekend’s ‘Public Domain’ will bring together 1,000 volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, will participate in a choral event whose lyrics originate from online autocomplete searches. One of the largest choral events in Lincoln Center history will take place on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson plaza on Saturday August 13th at 5pm.A thousand volunteer singers from around New York City, crowd-sourced from an online campaign, will participate in a c..>> view originalWelcome To Y'all Street: The Cities Challenging New York For ...
Once Home, Now a Museum Display on Immigrant Life
What has been planned as a 90-minute guided tour will begin in the Epstein apartment. There, painted-over mezuzas are still visible in the doorways, containing scrolls of Hebrew verses that Kalman and Regina Epstein kissed every time they walked by. They were German and Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, later meeting in a displaced-persons camp in Germany.They moved to New York in 1947, sponsored by an uncle and enabled by President Harry S. Truman’s 1945 directive that loosened quota res..>> view original
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