Even as he continued to record, Mr. Colón told The Herald, he felt increasingly at odds with an industry focused on commercial appeal over innovation, including a trend toward performers who in his estimation were far more physically attractive than musically gifted. @nytimes.com

Through the power of his language and his preternatural energy and ambition, he became a moral and political force in a racially ambiguous era, when Jim Crow was still a vivid memory and Black political power more an aspiration than a reality. @nytimes.com

For a long time, the passageway was somewhat of a mystery. Theories included that it may have been a laundry chute or a secret passage for younger members of the family. @nytimes.com

Desire lines often stem from necessity, at times when officials neglect human experience or certain regions altogether. @nytimes.com

"Our relationship with images has changed with the internet and digital photography. Many of us fall into an endless sea of images on social media as soon as we wake up, sometimes spending fractions of a second with them." @nytimes.com

A look at the battlefield technology used in immigration enforcement operations. @nytimes.com

Over the course of two decades, the country went from democracy to dictatorship. Its government nationalized foreign-owned assets and began a dangerous sparring match with the United States — only to run out of cash when oil prices crashed. @nytimes.com

“Now I laughed, and I laughed when I saw the photo. My mom laughed, my friends too. They made stickers and memes and all that,” Camargo said. “But I still see the videos of what happened that day, of the explosions, I hear the sounds and I still feel this sense of panic.” @apnews.com

Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured those and other events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. @nytimes.com

As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. @nytimes.com

The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. @nytimes.com

Krasznahorkai's lecture, which he gave in Hungarian, ranged across topics such as old and new angels, human dignity, hope or the lack thereof, rebellion and his observations of a clochard — or tramp — on the Berlin subway. @apnews.com

December 4: "Filmstrip" (2005) acrylic on canvas, 40 in. x 20 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

Almost 58% of the Somalis in Minnesota were born in the U.S. And of the foreign-born Somalis there, 87% are naturalized U.S. citizens. @apnews.com

Parents and staff at the Institute for Collaborative Education say those letters have taken on a grim connotation in President Donald Trump’s second term. @wnyc.org

The cantilever, which opened in 1954, was designed to be used for 50 years. The risks only go up as it continues to deteriorate year after year, even as its life span has been extended with interim measures. @nytimes.com

Younger adults are facing the worst labor market shock in years, one far more acute than the rest of the population. @axios.com

Today, 40% of all babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried women, a dramatic increase since 1960, when they made up only 5% of births. @nprnews.bsky.social

She called it “El sueño (La cama),” or “The dream (The bed),” bringing the artist’s preoccupation with the border between sleep and death into focus. @nytimes.com

They sold nostalgia: rice, beans, plantains, chorizo and other foods that were reminders of home. @nytimes.com #NYC

Penn Station remains the busiest transit hub in the United States, with nearly double the number of daily passengers as the busiest airport. It is also widely abhorred. @nytimes.com

The bishops said they “oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people” and “pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Already loved it | "All jazz musicians set out early to find their own voice, their own sound, and the saxophone’s mix of reed and metal is a willing accomplice." @nytimes.com

“It is really beautiful that I can still work. Physically and emotionally, it changes the quality of my life,” she said. @nytimes.com

This high school team in Oklahoma City forfeited the title earlier this year after their coach spotted a scoring error that incorrectly crowned them the champions. @nytimes.com

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about the colour #Black #BlueSkyArtShow #vertical #MinimalMonday #minimalism #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #wildlife #blackandwhite #birds #stunday #photography #scape #nature #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. @propublica.org

Contestants are judged on “the grotesqueness of the grimace and on the extent to which their facial features change,” according to the rules. @nytimes.com

“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.” @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

Customers don’t want to risk leaving home, getting nabbed by ICE agents and being sent thousands of miles away from their Long Island families, he said. @davidolson11.bsky.social in @newsday.bsky.social

The majority of the cocaine that is smuggled to the United States moves through the Pacific, not the Caribbean, U.S. data shows. @nytimes.com

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago.

"Being onstage offers a platform in which to spit hot fire." | ‘Mexodus’ Tells an Underground Railroad Story You’ve Probably Never Heard | @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

The postcard, an update from Mr. Ball on his travels, provided the kind of quick message one might send in a text or a social media post today. @nytimes.com

Each piece is crafted not just to bury the deceased, but to embody the essence of their life. They can be so colorful that they can make dying seem attractive. @apnews.com

“All of these apartments, especially on the top floors, will become uninhabitable in the coming years,” said Dan Lert, deputy mayor in charge of the city’s ecological transition and its climate change plan. @nytimes.com

Even before the detective had explained, she said: “The tears started coming from me, you know, I just knew they had found him, in my heart. I just knew it.” @nytimes.com

Soon, many of Earth’s marine ecosystems could be fundamentally and forever altered if pressures like climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and coastal development continue unabated, according to the authors. @nytimes.com

Looking up at the main branch of The New York Public Library.

“This should not be happening this way,” Mr. Thompson recalled thinking. He raced around in search of supplies and relied on the community of Burners, many of them strangers from nearby camps, as he and his wife experienced some of the scariest moments of their lives. @nytimes #BurningMan

There is evidence that reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s, the researchers said, but they called the size of the latest decrease “surprising.” @nytimes.com

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., was painted over this week by the state of Florida. @nytimes.com

Trade volatility has created an existential threat for independent board game publishers in the United States, virtually all of which employ fewer than 10 workers. @nytimes.com

A legal dispute over how Frida Kahlo's trademarks can be used is before a Florida appeals court this summer and could set precedents that affect other artists. @nbcnews.com

This is “purpose anxiety” — the gnawing sense that one’s life should have an overarching purpose. @apnews.com

Started reading this short story about a daughter and mother while riding in the same direction and it took me all the way through, "...their silence becoming more and more rigid as the train took them beneath the river in the direction of Queens." In @parisreview.bsky.social

Some faulted the tech industry, saying they felt “gaslit” about their career prospects. Others described their job search experiences as “bleak,” “disheartening” or “soul-crushing.” @nytimes.com

Clearly, today calls for a summer tanager! 🌎 Northern California #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife

From the moment he founded his first steady band, the eight-piece La Perfecta, in 1961, Mr. Palmieri drove many of the stylistic shifts and creative leaps in Latin music. @nytimes.com

Flaco Jiménez, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies at 86. “I would consider our music as like a bouquet of roses in rainbow colors, you know?” he told The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts in 1990. @nytimes.com