New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is starting an environmental review of a proposed crosstown subway line along Harlem’s 125th Street that could serve an estimated 164,000 weekday rider...

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Last week, the MTA announced something that American transit agencies almost never get to announce: it finished a major infrastructure project 60 months ahead of schedule and $195 million under budget...

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A US state energy dashboard for all of us. Legislation, news, and agency releases — personalized by state, delivered daily.

A US state energy dashboard for all of us. Legislation, news, and agency releases — personalized by state, delivered daily.

A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive OS" in their ...

The United States has the unfortunate distinction of having some of the highest transportation infrastructure costs in the world. Urban rail costs in the United States are 50 percent higher than in Ge...

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The city shines in the summertime — and this year’s light is especially bright, thanks in part to a new presidential center.

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

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Tracking the funding, projections, and scenarios for Chicago's four city pension funds.

An event at the home Saturday — located on the block where Ald. Matt O'Shea lives — featured a band and armed security and resulted in nine citations. Neighbors have complained, while the resident sai...

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The World Cup has brought Britishisms to U.S. soccer coverage. “Linguistically, as on the pitch, the Americans can often be found ball-chasing,” Zach Helfand writes.

I stepped off the train that evening and saw the accident scene. A few hours late, I looked around for Tiffany, but everything was already boarded up.

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What is the American chattering class actually talking about? AI-powered daily analysis of 200+ US political newsletters and podcasts.

What is the American chattering class actually talking about? AI-powered daily analysis of 200+ US political newsletters and podcasts.

LOS ANGELES—Admitting that it had cast a long shadow over his otherwise successful time in America, despondent Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani told reporters Tuesday that he figured he would have met ...

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