Ashley Gilbertson

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Matt Flegenheimer |Dana Rubinstein |Ashley Gilbertson

Mayor Eric Adams was milling around a Manhattan ballroom, tuxedoed and small-talking, on a Thursday night a few weeks before the 2024 election. Donald J. Trump made the first move. Since Adams's indictment in late September on federal corruption charges, those close to him told us, he had felt abandoned and isolated, a mayor unmoored. Here was a relative stranger, the once and future president, edging his way at a white-tie charity dinner.

Jan 9, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Gilbertson

FILE — A polymetallic nodule on Michael Lodge’s desk, who is the International Seabed Authority’s secretary general, in Kingston, Jamaica, on Dec. 9, 2021. The Norwegian Parliament voted on Tuesday, Jan.9, 2024, to authorize the opening of parts of the Norwegian Sea to seabed mining exploration, a move that reflects rising international demand for the metals needed to build batteries for electric vehicles worldwide. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)

Dec 12, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Gilbertson

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — A Chinese restaurant on Canal Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown on March 11, 2020. When Covid hit, many Chinese restaurants lost nearly all their business.

Aug 25, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Gilbertson

FILE — Wagner mercenaries guard the president and other high-ranking attendees at a May Day, or Worker’s Day, event in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, May 1, 2019. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s presumed death could have profound consequences for African client states and warlords who, in the span of a few years, helped turn a mercenary enterprise into one of Russia’s most powerful and recognizable assets on the continent. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)

Aug 23, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Ashley Gilbertson

FILE — Wagner mercenaries guard the president and other high-ranking attendees at a May Day, or Worker’s Day, event in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, May 1, 2019. The future of the Wagner private military company in Africa would be thrown further into uncertainty without Yevgeny Prigozhin as its leader. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)