Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Executions

By ALAN BLINDER April 15, 2017 ATLANTA — A federal judge on Saturday halted Arkansas’s plans for an extraordinary series of executions set to begin on Monday, adding to the legal chaos over what began as the state’s efforts to put eight...

2 Tennessee Cases Bring Coal’s Hidden Hazard to Light

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG April 15, 2017 GALLATIN, Tenn. — The hulking Gallatin Fossil Plant sits on a scenic bend of the Cumberland River about 30 miles upstream from Nashville. In addition to generating electricity, the plant, built in the early 1950s...

2 Tennessee Cases Bring Coal’s Hidden Hazard to Light

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG April 15, 2017 GALLATIN, Tenn. — The hulking Gallatin Fossil Plant sits on a scenic bend of the Cumberland River about 30 miles upstream from Nashville. In addition to generating electricity, the plant, built in the early 1950s...

New York’s battered retail scene becomes a microcosm of nationwide shakeout, upended by Internet

Along the cobblestone streets of SoHo, Chanel handbags and Arc’teryx jackets are displayed in shops like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighborhood’s trendiness. But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is...

New York’s battered retail scene becomes a microcosm of nationwide shakeout, upended by Internet

Along the cobblestone streets of SoHo, Chanel handbags and Arc’teryx jackets are displayed in shops like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighborhood’s trendiness. But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is...