Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.” That drama dates back 25 years. Today, these two New York City institutions — the billionaire…
As the dust settled on another contentious American election cycle, a quiet exodus has been unfolding across the Atlantic, one measured not in dramatic departures but in meticulously filed paperwork. The land of Brexit, perpetual rain, and questionable cuisine has somehow become the promised land for a record number of Americans seeking an escape hatch…
Take two proud hockey countries in a best-on-best final, add a massive dose of geopolitics into the equation, and then conclude the matchup with a historic overtime goal by the game’s best player. It’s a recipe for a historic viewership number — and that’s what we saw with Canada’s 3-2 overtime win over the United…
Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but that…
Three decades ago, he was a scrappy campaigner roaming the world’s corridors of power with a dream to win independence for his tiny homeland. Today, at 75, José Ramos-Horta is both the president and a relentless salesman for East Timor. He asked China’s president, Xi Jinping, to “help us resolve the problem of agriculture, food…
The dreams of AAP debutant Avadh Ojha were swept away in the BJP wave, as he lost Manish Sisodia’s former seat Patparganj to Ravinder Negi by a huge margin, polling 45,988 votes compared to Negi’s 74,060. Congress, which once dominated the seat, failed to regain lost ground, with Anil Chaudhary finishing a distant third with…
Nearly a week after a midair collision between a commercial jetliner and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, investigators are piecing together the events that led to the deadliest US air disaster since 2001. The crash, which killed all 67 people on board both aircraft, has raised critical questions about…
When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of trade across the border with Mexico. Now, nearly a billion dollars of commerce and more than 15,000 trucks roll over the line every day just a quarter mile from his office, binding the economies of…
Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is leaving NBC News after nearly 18 years at the network. Todd said in a memo to NBC News colleagues that Friday was his last day. He’ll continue doing his podcast and said he’s considering new projects, but offered no details. He joined NBC News as political director…
High interest rates kept U.S. home sales in a deep freeze for much of last year. It could be a while before the market experiences much of a thaw. Americans bought just over four million previously owned homes last year, the National Association of Realtors said on Friday. That was the fewest since 1995 and…