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Each day, Inside The Times Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. Here are facts that surprised, ...

[‘The Crown’ and the Appeal of a Royal TV Interview](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/arts/television/the-crown-royals-television.html) [Jacques Pépin, in Search of Lost Cars and Cuisine](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/business/jacques-pepin-french-cars-cuisine.html) [Can’t Talk, I’m Busy Being Hot](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/style/self-care/hot-girl-megan-thee-stallion-tik-tok.html) [When Motherhood Is a Horror Show](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/arts/motherhood-horror-movies-tv.html) [Cooking Online, Arab Women Find Income and Community](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/dining/arab-women-youtube-cooking-videos.html) [two million people annually — a 500 percent increase since 1970](https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration). Wright](https://kellywright5.wixsite.com/raciolinguistics). [A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/remote-work-office-life.html) [one in three American adults](https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/barriers-to-work-individuals-with-criminal-records.aspx) have criminal records. [California Air Resources Board](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/topics/lawn-garden-landscape-equipment). [In Glitter and Leotards, They Took a Stand: Carnival Must Go On](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/americas/brazil-carnival.html) I leave you with that.” [Oscars Rewind: When Rita Moreno Made History and Thanked No One](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/movies/rita-moreno-oscar-west-side-story.html)

The New Year's Eve celebration returns at full capacity this year and a number of streets in Midtown are already closed.

"If you've got hope and you got love in your heart, that's your foundation of you as a person. Crews worked throughout the Tuesday afternoon to place the message of love on the iconic ball, which stands 12 feet tall. The owners of 1 Times Square started rooftop celebrations back in 1904. But that's not the case anymore. The ball has gotten stuck before. to ring in the new year. ["CBS Presents New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash." Bags, chairs and umbrellas are also not allowed. As for security, thousands of uniformed officers will be in Times Square. [] See the schedule of street closures below. Street closures in Manhattan started at 4 a.m.

Major cities including New York and Chicago are preparing for New Year's Eve celebrations, and part of the festivity preparations will include strengthened ...

A week after another tragedy -- the historic blizzard which [ left dozens of residents dead](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/weather/arctic-winter-storm-new-york-blizzard-monday/index.html) -- Buffalo will go ahead as planned with New Year's Eve celebrations, including their annual ball drop. "At this time, there are no specific credible threats to New York City or any of our events surrounding New Year's Eve," Sewell said. And we move forward into 2023 as a resilient community." Officers will also be assigned on foot and bike throughout Chicago's entertainment district and across the city. Several access points will allow the public to enter the event in Times Square. Look out for each other as well, and if you see anything suspicious or unsafe, please call 911," the superintendent said, emphasizing celebratory gunfire is illegal in Chicago.

Midnight is just around the corner for the thousands of revelers who flooded Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve without restrictions after two years ...

A woman was seen wearing a red poncho as crowds began to flood in for the night's celebrations. As for security, thousands of uniformed officers were seen in Times Square. A lone officer walks past the crowd, but is one of a full force in place to deal with the influx of crowds marquee New Year's Eve event - this year masks were few and far between Protective measures for police include a heavy weapons teams, bomb squad, and teams monitoring more than 1,000 cameras, according to Galati. The pandemic will not impact New Year's celebrations this year. The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball was seen being tested in preparation for the December 31 celebration in Times Square on Friday People began celebrating New Year's Eve at Times Square in 1904, in 1907 the New Year's Eve Ball made its first descent from the flagpole at One Times Square. Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment are the organizers of Times Square New Year's Eve and 3,000 pounds of confetti will release as the ball drops at midnight Ciara, Fitz & The Tantrums, Maddie & Tae, Shaggy, Ben Platt, Aly & AJ, Halle Bailey, Tomorrow x Together, Bailey Zimmerman, Lauren Spencer Smith, Wiz Khalifa, Finneas, Armani White, Betty Who, Dove Cameron and Nicky Youre. The 2023 New Years Eve Ball was revealed in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York ahead of the drop at midnight Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment organized the Times Square New Year's Eve event and are expected to release 3,000 pounds of confetti over the heaving crowds of New York as the ball drops.

The year 2022 has finally come to an end. Thousands of spectators came from across the country and the world to watch the ball drop in Times Square.

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A whole host of big names and star performers will be in New York tonight to ring in 2023 with the iconic Times Square ball drop.

Featured performances will include KT Tunstall, LL Cool J, Chlöe and Journey, There will also be a Planet Fitness Dance Routine from Liza Koshy and the USO Show Troupe. The official celebration begins at 6:00pm local time and a whole host of performances from big stars will perform live throughout the evening. Across the country New Year’s Eve celebrations will be in full swing later tonight, ringing in 2023. But the showpiece event of the evening will be the iconic ball drop countdown to ring in the New Year, beginning at 11:59pm ET. A livestream of the event will be available to watch at On the roof of the One Times Square building in the heart of New York, the plunging ball will mark out the final minute of 2022 and bring in the New Year with fireworks.

New York Times Square Ball Drop: The ball's surface was comprised of nearly 2700 Waterford crystals. | World News.

The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere 12 feet (3.6 meters) in diameter and weighing almost six tons descended from atop One Times Square- the unmissable ball drop. At midnight, confetti rained on the people celebrating as they were seen amid neon lights. New York City joined the glow of the new year with a dazzling night spectacle at the iconic Times Square.

Some of the highest-profile complaints show how America's culture wars are affecting the nation's children.

McSwain unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor of the state last year and came under fire during his campaign for [calling a middle-school gender and sexuality alliance group](https://www.inquirer.com/news/bill-mcswain-pa-governor-candidate-gender-sexuality-school-20220310.html) “leftist political indoctrination.” [heightened visibility of the population](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/us/transgender-teenagers-how-many.html) and the backlash over laws that are designed to protect them. student, but said in a statement that the district “takes allegations of discrimination very seriously,” and is conducting its own investigation. complaint](https://www.smore.com/6xyu5-the-central-bucks-board-note?ref=email) as a “partisan, political tool” and announced the board had hired a high-powered legal team led by Bill McSwain, a former Trump-appointed U.S. Among the programming they asserted violated the laws was a [“Families of Color Playground Night”](https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-denver-elementary/fact-check-denver-elementary-school-says-families-of-color-event-was-open-to-all-families-idUSL1N2T1207) in Colorado and an advertised “Students of Color Field Trip Opportunity” in Illinois. Another [complaint](https://www.aclupa.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/cbsd_administrative_complaint_-_final_10-6-22_redacted3.pdf) filed by the state chapter of the A.C.L.U. “But I was concerned that I would be complicit if I became aware of this information and allowed it to sit.” “At the same time, the scope and volume of harm that we’re asking our babies to navigate is astronomical.” “We cannot underestimate the normalizing of intolerant behaviors,” said Liz King, the senior program director of educational equity at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 civil rights groups. “It reflects the confidence in the Office for Civil Rights as a place to seek redress,” Ms. In both cases the reforms included educating students to recognize and report discrimination, and training school staff in how to respond to it. The surge reversed the decline in complaints filed to the office under the Trump administration, which

No one knows how many are helped or how much Veterans Treatment Courts in New York cost. Supporters say it gives defendants who were in the armed forces a ...

Mr. He complimented Mr. Within five minutes, the judge smiled at Mr. The judge remembered Mr. Two months later, Mr. “He was there for us, at one time in his life,” Mr. July 6 of this year was the first time Mr. Within a week of his return to New York City, he met a woman who became his wife and the mother of his two children. He was sent to Fort Jackson, S.C., and later transferred to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. He added that the office is working to increase the number of referrals to specialized courts and to improve data collection on such programs. But even at a time when veterans are in real need of support, the cost and effectiveness of such courts are difficult to determine. He had been clean since he overdosed in the spring of 2021, when he had stents and a pacemaker put in to keep his heart beating.

Machete Attack on Cops Near Times Square Investigated as Possible Terror Incident: Sources · Law enforcement officials said they are looking into whether the man ...

A preliminary review shows the man has no previous arrests but he was known to federal and local law enforcement because of previous online postings, the sources added. Sewell said the man dealt two of the officers blows to the head, giving an 8-year veteran a head laceration and a recent police academy graduate a skull fracture. A local pizza shop employee said panicked revelers fled amid the chaos.

In New York City, New Year's Eve celebrations and crowds are returning after two years of scaled-back festivities. But the threat from COVID-19 is not gone.

An altercation between two men in Times Square on Saturday morning sent one man to the hospital with stab wounds while the suspect fled the scene on foot.

[tweeted on Saturday](https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/1609270962276519936?s=20&t=E6xbkcK9Evb4N7LvZxQadg). [New Year’s celebrations](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/new-years-2023) and stemmed from an argument between two individuals who knew each other. the NYPD Saturday, and one of the individuals was stabbed multiple times. [CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP](https://www.foxnews.com/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink) [victim was stabbed](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime) he flagged down a police cruiser and at one point bled onto a police cruiser while leaning on it.

Three New York City police officers were injured after being attacked with a machete near New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, authorities said.

The suspect approached an officer and attempted to strike him over the head with the machete, Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. The suspect was also hospitalized, he said. Four senior law enforcement officials told NBC News that the man had been identified as Trevor Bickford from Wells, Maine.

Three New York City police officers are in stable condition after being struck by a man wielding a machete in an unprovoked attack near Times Square, ...

Another officer, an 8-year veteran, suffered a laceration, the commissioner said. One officer, a recent graduate of the police academy, suffered a skull fracture and a large laceration to his head, Sewell said. The suspect then struck two additional officers before one fired his service weapon, striking the suspect in the shoulder.

Short people don't just save resources; as resources become scarcer owing to overpopulation and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term ...

“It’s not the height in and of itself that determines the outcome.” The future I envision is different: I want my children’s children to know the value of short. “Everything is big,” he said, “the buildings, the businesses,” and went on to explain that parents reflect the mind-set that bigger is better when envisioning their offspring. “Don’t be overly confident when you are tall because you are probably going to die younger, have more health problems and you are polluting more.” On average, [short people live longer](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12586217/) and have [fewer incidences of cancer](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25991828/). Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior, calculated that if we kept our proportions the same but were just 10 percent shorter in America alone, we would save 87 million tons of food per year (not to mention trillions of gallons of water, quadrillions of B.T.U.s of energy and millions of tons of trash). “There are some short people who thrive and do phenomenally well and lead fantastic lives, and there are some tall people who are miserable,” Dr. I understand why they felt that way, given how short people are treated in our society — a song with the lyric “Short people got no reason to live” was No. Now I have twins who are among the smallest in their kindergarten class, but instead of preparing to medicate them because of an antiquated societal bias, I’m going to let them be as they are: tiny. There is an ongoing debate about the stature of a population and what it means for the prosperity and fairness of a nation, but I’m interested in shortness on an individual level. [tall candidates](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/02/19/in-politics-height-matters) assuming that they are better leaders and often choose tall people as partners with no definitive data that they make better spouses. Even if it did, in an era of guns and drones, being tall now just makes you a bigger target.

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Multiple NYPD officers were injured in a machete attack near Times Square on New Year's Eve, police said.

One of the injured officers, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD, suffered a laceration to the head, officials said. "We are really pleased by the response and how our officers handled this situation," Mayor Eric Adams said. [an image](https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/1609436699591049216) of a weapon, saying it had been recovered at the scene. The suspect has no prior arrests, but his recent behavior prompted a concerned family member to report him to the authorities, the sources said. "Unprovoked, a 19-year-old male approached an officer and attempted to strike him over the head with a machete," Sewell said. The suspect was taken into custody, she said.

One officer — a rookie, patrolling on his first day with the NYPD — suffered a fractured skull.

"He understood that his role saved lives of New Yorkers today," Adams said at the press conference. "We're really pleased by the response and how our officers handled this situation. One officer — a rookie, patrolling on his first day with the NYPD — suffered a fractured skull, said Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell during a press conference.

For over 80 years, researchers at Harvard have studied what makes for a good life. They found one surefire, scientifically proven predictor of happiness: ...

[Julia Moskin writes](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/dining/resetting-your-routine.html). [preside over his predecessor’s funeral](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/world/europe/pope-benedict-funeral.html)for the first time in modern Catholic Church history. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Or it [may not be remembered at all](https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/we-do-not-know-which-events-will), Joachim Klement argues on Substack. You can do something small and actionable today. And I told her how grateful I was. I did this once with my fourth-grade teacher, Roseann Manley. It’s in every realm of your life. It’s about the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which started during the Depression. Many of us on the Well desk had read “The Good Life” by Dr. It’s a relationship challenge that will help you address and improve different parts of your social universe with seven science-backed exercises. A team of reporters on The Times’s health and wellness desk, Well, developed a seven-day challenge to help you do just that.

Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today's Theme. MONDAY PUZZLE — Congratulations to Seth Bisen-Hersh, who is the first debut constructor of 2023! Mr. Bisen-Hersh has ...

in L.A.” is the clue for PST — Pacific Standard Time — as opposed to P.D.T., which would be the summer hours in L.A. For some reason the song was in my head, and I said to someone in my dream: “This could be a crossword theme!” Indeed, I’m such a workaholic that I often write songs in my dreams, but this is the first time I came up with a puzzle theme subconsciously. or a phonetic hint for repeated pairs of letters in 19-, 27- and 42-Across.” I blinked at the clue. And then, with the help of some crosses, I filled in IT HAD TO BE YOU. The “it” in the clue “It’s very unlikely to happen” refers to the entry itself. Here’s a bit of crossword fill that veteran solvers will have memorized and new solvers may be perplexed by: Clues that take the form “[season] hours in [place]” are generally asking you to identify a time zone in relation to daylight saving time. The clue “8-Across (AWARD) for some New York plays” is evidently a personal one for Mr. Feeling completely at sea, I read the clue for the revealer at 50A with no small amount of trepidation: “Classic song about a soulmate … It’s nice to see ASS clued in reference to something other than the beast of burden! [Today’s Theme](#link-177cfbd) [MONDAY PUZZLE](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2023/01/02) — Congratulations to Seth Bisen-Hersh, who is the first debut constructor of 2023! “___-backwards (utterly wrong, in slang)” is a fun clue for ASS. The thing that is very unlikely to happen is a BIG IF — which some solvers may recall was the theme of a different