Dan Barry

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry

A part of Interstate 80 in New Jersey passes near and over abandoned iron mines, remnants of a thriving ore-and-mineral industry that began before the American Revolution. Just after Christmas last year, the eastbound shoulder along a New Jersey stretch of Interstate 80 parted like an asphalt curtain. It left a hole 40 feet wide, 40 feet long and deep enough to imagine the worst.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry

Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state's residents have time to reflect, and get mad. Credit... Bryan Anselm for The New York Times New Jersey is the state of constant movement. It is where people identify hometowns by exit number. Where the scenery looks odd if not seen through smudged train windows.

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Juliet Macur |Jazmine Ulloa |Annie Correal |kirsten noyes |Alan Feuer |Dan Barry

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, all of 16, called his older brother in distant Maryland with startling news. He had made it to the Texas border. He had escaped. In his family’s telling, this is how his American journey began. They say that for years in El Salvador, a gang called Barrio 18 had terrorised them, extorting money from the mother’s small tortilla and pupusa (flatbread) business, threatening to leave them all dead in a ditch – and targeting young Kilmar, in and out of school, with increasing menace.

2 months ago | telegraphindia.com | Dan Barry

About 242 years after the Battle of Lexington sparked the Revolutionary War, a resident of the Massachusetts town where it took place realized with childlike enthusiasm that the 250th anniversary would be coming in no time. Huzzah! Obsessed with her hometown’s role in America’s origin story, the resident, Sabrina Bhattacharjya, began planning early for 2025. Very early.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry

A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this weekend. Her entertaining website has drawn praise and raised eyebrows. Sabrina Bhattacharjya, 15, at a women's monument in Lexington, Mass., her hometown. Credit...