Hillel Nahmad, right, leaving court last month, is accused of being part of a huge gambling ring. Credit... Robert Stolarik for The New York Times The all-night games were held in rarefied settings like a suite at the Plaza Hotel. One pink chip was worth $25,000. Masseuses were on hand to help…

Reuters Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher thought might make her rich. She logged onto her Vanguard brokerage account on her computer…

Fish and other sea life have been moving toward Earth’s poles in search of cooler waters, part of a worldwide, decades-long migration documented for the first time by a study released Wednesday. The research, published in the journal Nature, provides more evidence of a rapidly warming planet and has…

A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment…

Phil Jackson, the former coach and player who won 13 N.B.A. championships. Credit... Art Streiber for The New York Times Everyone wants to know what Phil Jackson is doing. In the absence of data, they are happy to speculate. The first time I met Jackson, at the end of April, rumor had it that he…

Based on the bills it submits to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical Center in Bayonne, N.J., charged the highest amounts in the country for nearly one-quarter of the most common hospital treatments. Credit... Nadav Neuhaus for The New York Times See how this article appeared when it was originally…

Illustrations by Roberto Parada This is a story about the future. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It’s the one where computers keep getting smarter and smarter, and clever engineers…

Rhimes on the set of “Scandal” in Hollywood. Credit... Jeff Minton for The New York Times “I love that the gay White House chief of staff is threatening to pretend the first lady is a closeted lesbian,” Shonda Rhimes said to a roomful of writers. “It is so wrong. In the best way.” Ten of the writers…

From the magazine: ISSUE 85 : April/May 2013 On a chilly, unlovable day in early March, Juicy J is on the west side of Manhattan, shopping for champagne. He’s celebrating. Just down the street is BET, where he’s scheduled to appear as a guest on 106 & Park for the first time in seven years—the math…

Walter White. Chairman of the NAACP. Black dude. (The Walter White Project) Andrew Sullivan and Freddie Deboer have two pieces up worth checking out. I disagree with Andrew's (though I detect some movement in his position.) Freddie's piece is entitled "Precisely How Not to Argue About Race and IQ."…

In the cold of February, as New York City police officers gathered for their daily orders at roll call, they were given a rather unusual command, for both its timing and its substance: If they happened upon a topless woman, they were not to arrest her. The command was read at 10 consecutive roll…

In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines. Those levels,…

Lobe-finned fish like the coelacanth and lungfish are known to zoologists as sarcopterygians, a term meaning fleshy fins. Credit... Chip Clark/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, via Associated Press In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by…

KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of millions…

Solange knows that reaching the top isn't as important as enjoying the ride. This feature appears in Complex's June/July 2013 issue. Kinetic energy hums through the Museum of Modern Art’s sprawling lobby in midtown Manhattan, packed for the annual Armory Party benefit gala on the first Wednesday in…

Science Published: May 13, 2013 Look, but Don’t Touch Mark Laita, a photographer, in working with the subjects in his new book, “Serpentine,” sought to capture the snake in its many colors and “the sensual forms its movement creates.” It’s science best appreciated from a distance. Related Article »…

Esther Gokhale teaches techniques for maintaining better posture. She says her advice can relieve nagging back pain. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York Times MATT DRUDGE recently noted an anniversary of his aggregator news site with a Twitter post: “18 years of DRUDGE REPORT in February! And STILL…

Credit... Peter and Maria Hoey THE first couple of times Alfred J. Carpenter was turned down for a job, he didn’t know what to think. He been laid off early in the recession and then had the bad fortune of tearing tendons in his knee just when he didn’t have health insurance. The job market was…

Clinton Hill “Used to steal clothes, was considered a thief/Until I started hustlin’ on Fulton Street.” Related Video — Notorious B.I.G. in ‘Guaranteed Raw’ Left, NYC Municipal Archives; Right, Mark Lennihan/Associated Press 226 St. James Place between Fulton Street and Gates Avenue: Biggie grew up…

The Appraisal The Belvedere LXX is the latest in a growing family of small apartment houses that have sprouted up in Brooklyn over the past 10 years, the majority of which share certain features. Credit... Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Belvedere LXX is a brand-new condominium on Eckford Street…

Credit... Photo illustration from photographs by Arif Ali/AFP, via Newscom (left) and Douglas County sheriff’s office (right). The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a…

Sunday Routine Credit... Dave Sanders for The New York Times In novels like “The Wife"and “The Ten-Year Nap,” Meg Wolitzer has explored themes of marriage, sex, gender politics and family. Her real domestic life is spent on the Upper East Side, where she lives with her husband, Richard Panek, 54,…

McCandlish Phillips in 1966. He left his journalism career in 1973 to spread the Gospel. Credit... John Orris/The New York Times McCandlish Phillips, a former reporter for The New York Times who wrote one of the most famous articles in the newspaper’s history — exposing the Orthodox Jewish…

African-Americans have a slightly higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease than people of largely European ancestry, but there is no major genetic difference that could account for the slight excess risk, new research shows. The results are from one of the only large studies ever done on Alzheimer’s in…

The Williamsburg headquarters of Vice Media, which calls itself “the Time Warner of the streets.” Its C.E.O., Shane Smith (on phone, above), says, “The over-all goal is to be the largest network for young people in the world.” Credit Photograph by Chris Buck Late in February, in the Ryugyong Chung…

Rise of the Predators Nek Muhammad, center, was a Pashtun militant who was killed in 2004, in the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan. Credit... Kamran Wazir/Reuters Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed. On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in…

This Land 1 / 5 It remains unknown what these girls were thinking, if they were thinking, when they imprisoned another human being in a car trunk without food, water or medication. What is known is just who they had dismissed, apparently, as just another defenseless little old lady: Margaret E.…

During a legislative debate in 2010 over the Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk encounters, the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, met with the governor at the time, David A. Paterson, to defend the tactic’s importance as a crime-fighting tool. According to a state senator, Eric Adams,…

A national Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows the majority of Americans support pot legalization 52 percent to 45 percent, with 72 percent who say that the cost of federal law enforcement efforts are not worth it. The results mark the first time in more than four decades of Pew's…

In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. Glacial ice in the Peruvian Andes that took at least 1,600 years to form has melted in just 25 years, scientists reported Thursday, the latest indication…

Majora Carter grew up in Hunts Point in the Bronx and later emerged as a fierce defender of its residents against urban blights. Credit... Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Desperate to block FreshDirect’s move to their corner of the South Bronx, Mychal Johnson and his neighbors decided to turn…

O n July 15th, 1995, in the quiet Southern California city of Whittier, a 33-year-old black man named Curtis Wilkerson got up from a booth at McDonald’s, walked into a nearby mall and, within the space of two hours, turned himself into the unluckiest man on Earth. “I was supposed to be waiting there…

Facing a wave of employee theft, retailers across the country have helped amass vast databases of workers accused of stealing and are using that information to keep employees from working again in the industry. The repositories of information, like First Advantage Corporation’s Esteem database,…

shrinking rivers china lede For years, China claimed to hold an estimated 50,000 rivers within its borders. Now, more than half of them have abruptly vanished. Last week, China's Ministry of Water Resources announced the results of a three-year survey of the country’s waterways, revealing startling…

Last August, George T. McDonald sat down in an East Harlem restaurant with the five bosses of New York City’s Republican Party, hoping to persuade them to support his bid for mayor. The message he received, Mr. McDonald said on Tuesday, left him stunned. “There was no doubt they were looking for…

The Times’s Matt Flegenheimer takes to the New York streets to show how new research trumps traditional ideas about pedestrian and bike safety. Credit... Barton Silverman/The New York Times Pedestrians struck by cars are most often hit while in the crosswalk, with the signal on their side. Taxicabs…