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Unraveling a High-Rise Horror Story

Unraveling a High-Rise Horror Story

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last month, when Karen Zraick, a Times reporter on the Metro desk, got a tip from a tenant of a Lower Manhattan residential building, she wasn’t sure it would result in an article. The tipster wrote that elevator service in the building had been spotty, at best, since…

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The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build an Escape?

A major quake in the Pacific Northwest, expected sooner or later, will most likely create waves big enough to wipe out entire towns. Evacuation towers may be the only hope, if they ever get built.

A major quake in the Pacific Northwest, expected sooner or later, will most likely create waves big enough to wipe out entire towns. Evacuation towers may be the only hope, if they ever get built.

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Tornadoes Tear Through South and Midwest, With at Least 70 Dead in Kentucky

Tornadoes Tear Through South and Midwest, With at Least 70 Dead in Kentucky

While the destruction was spread throughout western Kentucky, much of the estimated death toll came from a single building, the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory, just southwest of the small city of Mayfield. Officials described an almost unfathomable level of destruction there, a knot of concrete and metal strewn with cars and 55-gallon drums leaking corrosive fluids into the…

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Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: October 22, 2021 at 12:40AM

He followed in the footsteps of his architect father, Morris, with glitzy landmarks in Times Square, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, where Donald Trump was a client.

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Author: BY KATIE VAN SYCKLE - Publish Date: September 4, 2021 at 11:50PM

A team of journalists examined building plans and interviewed a dozen experts to understand how the building could have failed.

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Author: BY MELINA DELKIC - Publish Date: June 28, 2021 at 02:31AM

The dangers to the rescuers and missing residents are clear and dictate that the process must be slow and deliberate, experts and officials say.

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Author: BY KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA, PATRICIA MAZZEI AND JOSEPH B. TREASTER - Publish Date: June 27, 2021 at 02:55AM

The partly collapsed Champlain Towers South scared people who live in Champlain Towers North. But no one has ordered them to evacuate — yet.