James Glanz

International, investigative and visual journalist at The New York Times. Lapsed astrophysicist. Ph.D. Princeton, formerly U. Colorado at Boulder, Science mag.

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Exclusive. Structural drawings obtained from the city show the columns that buckled in a Midtown office tower should have been reinforced with steel plates.
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A building collapse in Manhattan? Well, at least two structural columns buckled. “It looks like the floor above could have dropped a foot or two, which is obviously not a good situation,” an engineer said.

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The way the Earth ripped apart, with a rupture that sped almost directly toward Caracas, was one of half a dozen factors that made Venezuela's earthquake especially destructive. With Helmuth Rosales & Marco Hernandez, edited by Anjali Singhvi.

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New evidence suggests that after a struggle in the cockpit, a pilot deliberately dove a Boeing 737 into a hillside in China in 2022. All 132 people on board were killed.

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With an astonishing team of reporting, visual & graphics talent: Mark Walker, Mark Walker, John Yoon, Mika Gröndahl and Pablo Robles.

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The pilots of Flight 2216 almost pulled off a "Miracle on the Hudson" after plowing into a gigantic flock of birds on their approach to a small airport in South Korea.

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Captain Sullenberger chose to emphasize how close the Korean pilots came to saving their plane, as he and his First Officer saved his. “Circumstances were with us," Captain Sullenberger said. "Circumstances were not with them.”

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Here's the Chinese-language version of our story on the Hong Kong fire.
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Perhaps because architects do not win accolades or prizes for fire protection, it's not a stretch to say their fire safety schemes mostly place as adequate, bad or disastrous. Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong finishes in last place.
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The Hong Kong fire resurrects awful memories of the Grenfell Towers fire in London. In London, flammable cladding drove the fire up the building exterior, and in Hong Kong, it appeared to be bamboo scaffolding.

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Why is it so difficult to know how much damage U.S. strikes did to the underground Fordo nuclear site in Iran? For the same reason it was so hard to hit in the first place. https://t.co/gIQR1T0a8o