Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.

The first few hours of 2026 were more peaceful in New Orleans than one year ago, with local authorities reporting no incidents of fatal violence overnight as French Quarter revelers rang in the new ...

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It’s out with the old and in with the new in Times Square this year as the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop rings in 2026 with a dazzling new ball — the largest in the history of an event that started ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. It’s a big week for new TV shows, though the majority of the ...

For a holiday week, Netflix’s new releases lineup doesn’t have quite the volume you might expect, but that’s probably because they’re making way for one of the biggest Netflix shows of them all: the ...

New World at one point had over a million concurrent players on Steam, but will no longer get new content updates in 2026 Amazon Amazon Game Studios MMO New World Amazon Game Studios has announced ...

A major waterfront development is coming to the city of New Richmond. The small river town will be getting a grant of $13.4 million to create a new marina and streetscape. Construction of the marina ...

The quake's epicenter was in New Jersey, just west of New York City. A small earthquake rattled some parts of the New York City area Saturday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

An earthquake shook things up in the New York metro area Saturday night. A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 hit Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, at 10:18 p.m., according to the United States ...