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Elena Shao

New York

Graphics and Multimedia Editor at The New York Times

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Articles

  • 5 days ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Wood |Elena Shao |Zach Levitt

    On April 28, shortly before 1:30 p.m., air traffic controllers working the airspace around Newark Liberty International Airport lost communications with planes for roughly 30 seconds. Air traffic data shows that after the outage, multiple planes began circling in the air, awaiting a safe opportunity to land. Starting about 15 minutes after the outage, no passenger planes departed or landed at the airport for at least another hour and a half.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Eric Lee |Jon Huang |Elena Shao |Karen Yourish |Helmuth Rosales

    Explore a photo of world leaders who were at the funeral.

  • 1 month ago | news.nestia.com | Elena Shao |Ashley Wu

    What We Know About Cuts to the Federal Work Force By Elena Shao and Ashley Wu March 28, 2025 Share full article ……

  • 1 month ago | news.nestia.com | Elena Shao |June Kim |Julie Shaver |John Keefe

    Rain, snow, hail, dust, fire, tornadoes. A giant cross-country storm system last week led to one hazard after another, lashing California with an atmospheric river, fueling wildfires in Oklahoma and spawning tornadoes from Missouri to Alabama. A part of Texas felt like Mars. Huge stretches of communities across the Midwest and South were reduced to rubble. A governor lost a farmhouse to fire. And the area near a tiny town in Mississippi was struck by a tornado twice.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Elena Shao |June H. Kim

    A cross-country storm system tore through the South and the Midwest over the weekend, accompanied by tornadoes, dust storms and wildfires. Severe damage was reported in at least eight states. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported 12 deaths from tornadoes and storms that caused widespread damage in parts of the state. Officials said that six people died in Southern Mississippi. The state experienced a dozen tornadoes over 48 hours, including one with a 70-mile-long track. Credit Credit...

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