Christopher Maag

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Christopher Maag

NEW YORK – On the morning of May 21, Mr Ivan Boston’s day began at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in downtown Brooklyn. Last month, police officers had stopped him for running a red light on his electric bicycle, and Mr Boston, a construction worker, assumed that the DMV was where traffic tickets were paid. But the pink slip of paper in his hand was no traffic ticket. It was a criminal summons.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Maag

In what they say is a new safety campaign, the police are issuing summonses that may lead to arrest for cyclists who break the city's traffic laws. On Wednesday morning, Ivan Boston's day began at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Downtown Brooklyn. Last month, police officers had stopped him for running a red light on his electric bicycle, and Mr. Boston, a construction worker, assumed that the D.M.V. was where traffic tickets were paid.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Maag

An F.B.I. investigation homed in on two powerful men in suburban New York. Behind it were allegations by a woman who said her brother had abused and controlled her for 45 years. Eman Soudani lived in fear of her brother for decades, she said. She escaped, but still worries that he will find her. Credit... Daniel Brenner for The New York Times Early one morning in September 2024, two teams of F.B.I. agents descended simultaneously on a pair of homes in Orange County, New York.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Christopher Maag

Edan Alexander was kept hostage underground for 583 days in the tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip. After he was released Monday evening, he stood in a plain white room on an Israeli military base as his mother rushed in. They hugged and cried with joy and wept. Adi Alexander, Edan’s father, wanted to join their embrace. Instead he waited down the hall. For more than a year and a half, Adi Alexander had relied on discipline to survive the ordeal of his son’s capture.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Maag

Edan Alexander was 19 when he left New Jersey to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. He was released by Hamas on Monday. Edan Alexander was kept hostage underground for 583 days in the tunnels beneath Gaza. After he was released on Monday evening, he stood in a plain white room on an Israeli military base as his mother rushed in. They hugged and cried with joy and wept. Adi Alexander, Edan's father, wanted to join their embrace. Instead he waited down the hall.