With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Matthew Broderick Age: 59 Occupation: actor, singer Favorite Charity: the Actors Fund Where have you been hunkering down? For the past few months, we’ve been […]
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SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites, but misses rocket landing
The failed landing was the first time in about a year that SpaceX has lost one of its Falcon 9 rocket boosters, which the company has become accustomed to landing and reusing in order to save money. It took SpaceX more than two years and about a half dozen crash-landed […]
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Rutgers basketball misses its fans — and, with ‘Aunt Kathy,’ one more than the rest | Politi
No matter how loud it got inside the Rutgers Athletic Center, no matter how intense the action became on the court, Kathy McAdam never flinched. She would sit in her seat — in the third row right along the metal barrier where the players made their entrance and exit — […]
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This Jersey Shore town disappeared from the map, and no one really misses it
This story originally published July 2019. This article is part of “Unknown New Jersey,” an ongoing series that highlights interesting and little-known stories about our past, present, and future — all the unusual things that make our great state what is it. Got a story to pitch? Email it to […]
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Trump administration misses deadline on conservation projects, top Democrat says
The Trump administration has failed to meet a deadline to inform Congress about which projects should receive funding stemming from bipartisan conservation legislation that was signed into law earlier this year, a top Democratic lawmaker told The Hill. The Great American Outdoors Act, enacted on Aug. 4, gave the Interior […]