Natalie Bennett

Latinos have transformed the city in the last half-century — and the Hispanic influence extends to English phrases that a study has identified as the “Miami Dialect.”

Some college students work in the school cafeteria or at the local coffee shop, but Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University in Rhode Island, sells dinner reservations at some of New York City’s hottest restaurants. He does it through an app called Appointment Trader, where people can pay for a seat at the table at some of the city’s buzziest spots, like 4 Charles, Don Angie or Carbone, a practice that has earned the scorn of some top restaurants and earned Eisler $100,000 over the past 19 m…

Bloomberg Philanthropies has donated $1 billion to Johns Hopkins medical school, cutting the costs entirely for most current and future students. One hundred percent of tuition will be covered for families making less than $300,000 a year.

The state’s park system is the first in the U.S. to have adapted viewfinders at every location. “You don’t see this every day, huh?” said one resident trying it for the first time.

Nostalgia, TikTok creators and a spike in chocolate prices are fueling a hunger for the sweet treats.