The former president speaks on Saturday to the North Carolina Republican convention, as he resumes political speeches and rallies
By Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, commutes to New York City from his New Jersey golf club to work out of his office in Trump Tower at least once a week, slipping in and out of Manhattan without attracting much attention.
The place is not as he left it. Many of his longtime employees are gone. So are most of the family members who once worked there with him and some of the fixtures of the place, like his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who have since turned on…
At some top companies, Asian Americans are overrepresented in midlevel roles and underrepresented in leadership. The root of this workplace inequality could stem from the all-too-common experience of being confused for someone else.
By Brian X. Chen
About three years ago, JC Lau, a game developer, was one of a handful of women of Asian descent working at Bungie, a large video game studio in Bellevue, Washington. At the office, which had an open-floor plan and a staff of predominantly white men, co-workers regularly approached Lau mistaking her for one of the other Asian employees sitting in another row nearby.
On one occasion, multiple colleagues congratulated Lau, who identifies as Chinese Australian, on a presentation led by a colleague of Korean heritage. …
“Employers are becoming much more cognizant that yes, it’s about money, but also about quality of life.”
By Neil Irwin
The relationship between U.S. businesses and their employees is undergoing a profound shift: For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.
The change is broader than pandemic-related signing bonuses at fast-food places. Up and down the wage scale, companies are becoming more willing to pay a little more, to train workers, to take chances on people without traditional qualifications and to show greater flexibility in where and how people work.
The erosion of employer power began during the low-unemployment years leading up to the pandemic and, given demographic trends, could persist for…
The man who was almost New York’s mayor talks about the current campaign, selling tweets and why he feels bad for the media
By Ben Smith
Anthony Weiner doesn’t pay the kind of attention to New York politics that he did back when he was running for mayor, twice, before the exchange of messages with a 15-year-old that sent him to federal prison.
He was good on the campaign trail, though. He was the one Mike Bloomberg worried about and spent millions trying to deny the nomination in 2009. Weiner was a kind of test subject, too, for the sort of media and social media storms that destroyed his 2013 mayoral campaign, and are now just how politics is.
So I was curious…
Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods. Now, some cities are starting to take them down.
Infected early in the pandemic, Dr. Tomoaki Kato, a renowned transplant surgeon, was soon on life support, and one of the sickest patients in his own hospital
By Denise Grady
NEW YORK — Early in the pandemic, as hospitals in New York began postponing operations to make way for the flood of COVID-19 cases, Dr. Tomoaki Kato continued to perform surgery. Patients still needed liver transplants, and some were too sick to wait.
At 56, Kato was healthy and exceptionally fit. He had run the New York City Marathon seven times, and he specialized in operations that were also marathons, lasting 12 or 16 or 20 hours. He was renowned for surgical innovations, deft hands and sheer stamina. …
The social network, under pressure since barring former President Donald J. Trump, will no longer automatically give world leaders special treatment
By Mike Isaac
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce Friday that it will no longer keep posts by politicians up on its site by default if their speech breaks its rules, said two people with knowledge of the company’s plans, reversing how it has allowed posts from political figures to remain untouched on the social network.
The change, which is tied to Facebook’s decision to bar former President Donald Trump from its site, is a retreat from a policy introduced less than two years ago, when the company said speech from politicians was newsworthy and should not be policed.
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The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program
By Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military, according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report.
The report determines that the vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said. …
When your therapist is a bot, you can reach it at 2 a.m. But will it really understand your problems?
By Karen Brown
I understand that you’re experiencing a relationship problem, is that right?”
Yes.
“OK, I’m delighted that you want to work on this, K. I’ve good and bad news for you. … Which do you want to hear first?”
Good news.
“The good news is, I have very powerful skills that I can teach you! These skills have really helped a lot of people build better relationships.”
And the bad news?
“The bad news is that you would have to be willing to accept 100% of the responsibility for changing the relationship.”
Why?
“Because you’re only ever going…
As interior secretary, Ms. Haaland runs an agency once responsible for eradicating the homes, culture and often the lives of Indigenous people
By Elizabeth Williamson
PARAJE, N.M. — Six members of the Laguna Pueblo community gathered last week in the cool, fragrant kitchen of an adobe house, discussing their hopes for “Sister Deb” — Deb Haaland, a Laguna citizen, former congresswoman from New Mexico and now secretary of the interior.
Over homemade red chile stew and green chile chicken enchiladas, Julliene Reed-Tso, an informal cultural adviser to Haaland, said she wanted greater protection of sacred lands and better federal cooperation with sovereign tribal governments. Rebecca Ray, whose ancestors built the house in Paraje, and Rebecca Touchin hope Haaland’s success inspired Native Americans…
