Michael Wilson

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Wilson |Andy Newman |Maia Coleman |Olivia Bensimon

The aircraft had flown tourists in New York City thousands of times before crashing Thursday with a Spanish family aboard. Passengers who had flown earlier that day are processing the shock. Lionel Carles and his wife and young son arrived from Nice, France, on Wednesday with a list of things to see and do in New York City: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock, Fifth Avenue. And, an exciting highlight - a helicopter tour of the skyline.

1 month ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Matthew Burgess |Michael Wilson

(Bloomberg) -- The Australian dollar may be headed for its first annual gain since 2020, as the central bank keeps interest rates high and the economy benefits from expected Chinese stimulus. • None They Built a Secret Apartment in a Mall. Now the Mall Is Dying. • None New York Subway Ditches MetroCard After 32 Years for Tap-And-Go• None Despite Cost-Cutting Moves, Trump Plans to Remake DC in His StyleThe Aussie will climb as high as 68 cents by December, according to Westpac Banking Corp.

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Michael Wilson |Michael Rothfeld |Ana Ley

Share Crowds of masked student protesters raging against the war in Gaza filled the Columbia University lawns last spring, while counterprotesters and journalists surrounded the tent city that had been erected there.One man stood out.He was Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student in his 20s, older than most of the students around him.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Wilson |Michael Rothfeld |Ana Ley

Crowds of masked student protesters raging against the war in Gaza filled the Columbia University lawns last spring, while counterprotesters and journalists surrounded the tent city that had been erected there. He was Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student in his 20s, older than most of the students around him. Mr. Khalil, a Syrian immigrant of Palestinian descent, quickly emerged as a vocal and measured leader during rallies and sit-ins, doing on-camera interviews with the media in a zip-up sweater.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Wilson

A courtroom can become a sort of time machine. The criminal trial of Paul Geer, a former music teacher, played out in federal court in Albany, N.Y., last week. But testimony and photographic evidence transported everyone back to the 1990s and early 2000s to a town 125 miles away, Hancock, and to the Family Foundation School's secluded campus in the woods. The reform school is long closed and has settled several lawsuits by former students accusing Mr. Geer of sexual abuse over decades.