Dan Barry

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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...

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Sarah Blesener

The family of Brendan Costello gathered in the hospital half-light. He had overcome so much in life, but the profound damage to his brain meant he would never again be Brendan. It was time. Listen to this article with reporter commentary Brendan had spent four months enduring three surgeries and a lengthy rehab after infections further destabilized his damaged spine.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry

Five years later, the everyday has returned to the pleasant New Jersey town of Maplewood. About the only visible trace of what was endured is the urgent plea that still adorns the caution-yellow marquee of the old movie theater. There for the last five years, ever since the theater closed at the dawn of the dread, it says: STAY HEALTHY. The letter L is tipped slightly, like someone staggered by a blow.