Trip Gabriel

New York

National Correspondent, Politics Desk at The New York Times

Reporter at @nytimes. I used to cover elections. Now I only write about you if you're dead (and don't mind that you don't return calls).

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Federal Judge Known for Polysyllabic Prose Dies at 90

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Trip Gabriel

Bruce M. Selya, a federal judge who issued more than 1,800 opinions and was celebrated (and occasionally chided) for a sesquipedalian writing style - that is, his use of long words that sent readers scrambling for a dictionary - died on Feb. 22 in Providence, R.I. He was 90. His family announced his death.
K.W. Lee, 96, dies; journalist who gave a voice to immigrant communities

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Trip Gabriel

K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist whose reporting led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row in California, and who covered the Koreatown community targeted in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, died March 8 at his home in Sacramento, Calif. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his daughters, Sonia Cook and Diana Regan.
K.W. Lee, 96, dies; journalist who gave a voice to immigrant communities

1 month ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Trip Gabriel

K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist whose reporting led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row in California, and who covered the Koreatown community targeted in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, died March 8 at his home in Sacramento, Calif. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his daughters, Sonia Cook and Diana Regan.
K.W. Lee, 96, dies; journalist who gave voice to immigrant communities - Editor and Publisher

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Trip Gabriel

K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist whose reporting led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row in California, and who covered the Koreatown community targeted in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, died on March 8 at his home in Sacramento. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his daughters, Sonia Cook and Diana Regan.
K.W. Lee, Journalist Who Gave a Voice to Asian American Communities, Dies at 96

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Trip Gabriel

Against his parents' wishes, Kyung Won volunteered for a Japanese air cadet corps unit during World War II and trained as a flight radar operator, but he avoided deployment because of Japan's surrender in 1945. He immigrated to the United States in 1950, six months before the outbreak of the Korean War, and settled in Tennessee. He later enrolled at West Virginia University, where he graduated with a B.S. in journalism in 1953.
Geoff Nicholson, author of darkly comic novels, dies at 71

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Trip Gabriel

Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with cartography, Volkswagen Beetles, urban walking, jokes, and sexual fetishes, many of which were enduring interests of Mr. Nicholson himself — died Jan. 18 in Colchester, northeast of London. He was 71. His death, in a hospital, was from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, his partner, Caroline Gannon, said.
Raul M. Grijalva, a Democratic Progressive in the House, Dies at 77

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Trip Gabriel

Representative Raul M. Grijalva, a former political radical who became a Democratic stalwart of Arizona's congressional delegation and who was one of the most left-leaning lawmakers on Capitol Hill, representing a majority Hispanic district, died on Thursday in Tucson. He was 77. Mr. Grijalva (pronounced gree-HAHL-vah) disclosed last year that he had lung cancer and would not run for a 13th term in 2026. He died of complications of his treatment, his office said.
Helen Schreider, intrepid world traveler, dies at 98

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Trip Gabriel

At its founding in 1904, the international Explorers Club stated clearly that membership was “limited absolutely to men,” a fraternity of the hearty who blazed new routes through “the open and the wild places of the earth.” Inductees include Roald Amundsen, leader of the first team to reach the South Pole; Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay of Mount Everest fame; and, in 1956, Frank Schreider, who with his wife, Helen, drove from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America in an...
Helen Schreider, Intrepid World Traveler, Is Dead at 98

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Trip Gabriel

At its founding in 1904, the international Explorers Club stated clearly that membership was "limited absolutely to men," a fraternity of the hearty who blazed new routes through "the open and the wild places of the earth."Inductees include Roald Amundsen, leader of the first team to reach the South Pole; Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay of Mount Everest fame; and, in 1956, Frank Schreider, who with his wife drove from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America in an amphibious jeep.
William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Trip Gabriel

William R. Lucas, who oversaw development of rockets for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and shouldered much of the institutional blame for the catastrophic explosion that killed all seven astronauts aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1986, died on Feb. 10 at his home in Huntsville, Ala. He was 102. His family confirmed the death.