The M.T.A. is developing automatic closures for the subway system’s 39,000 air vents, according to a recent report by the authority. But those kinds of upgrades are expensive; the authority has ...

Passengers on an uptown No. 1 train saw floodwaters swamping the station at 28th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

The New Yorker shook us up with “The Really Big One,” Kathryn Schulz’s long-form narrative examination of the forthcoming ...

MLS season continued in full force this weekend, with every team getting their players back from extended international duty.

The economy’s resilience so far to President Trump’s global trade war risks emboldening him and unleashing the sort of ...

The Museum of the City of New York is launching a new investigation into the remains of a vessel found beneath lower ...

There is an array of opinion about government safety nets. What should they encompass? Should they even exist? Watching ...

The Trump administration is fighting the last war while China marches toward dominating the industries of the future.

The Australian Strategic Institute described this moment as “a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.” In the mid-20th ...

At services in the stricken Hill Country and elsewhere, ministers spoke Sunday morning about sorrow and solace, community and ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and ...