It’s hard to fathom now, but we used to be able to arrive at the airport just minutes before a flight. We’d keep our shoes and coats on as we went through a simple metal detector, and virtually anyone could go right to the gate without a boarding pass or even showing an ID. The […]

“Yemen” – I typed the word into a Google search. It was 2011 and, following the “revolutions” in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, protests had now started in Yemen. I had just received an assignment to photograph them for The New York Times. But I didn’t know about the country, so I turned to the internet. […]

PHOENIX — A Valley resident is back at sea aboard the first cruise ship to set sail from the United States since the pandemic anchored the industry last year. “Today is the port of Costa Mya, and then Cozumel tomorrow,” said Jenner Kaplan via Zoom from the deck of the Celebrity Edge. “The crews themselves, […]

“People were desperate, they tried to break the glass, they wanted to open the windows to escape,” says Erik Bravo, 34. “It was a shock, I was there.” MEXICO CITY — A decision to change cars to get closer to a station exit may have saved Erik Bravo, a 34-year-old financial adviser who survived the collapse […]

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