Arnav Binaykia

Project Brazen — It’s early December 2014, and at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, an unusual gathering is taking place. It’s the final night of Midwest Furfest, the world’s largest convention for a subculture known as Furries. The party is in full swing when, just after midnight, attendees suddenly find themselves struggling to breathe. Something terrible has happened: poisonous levels of chlorine gas are sweeping through the hotel corridors. Nineteen people are hospitalized and hundreds are evacuated into the freezing cold, many still wearing their colorful anthropomorphic animal costumes, or fursuits. Hazmat teams trace the gas to a stairwell, where they find the remains of a chemical bomb. This was an intentional attack. But almost a decade later, the identity of the perpetrator remains a mystery. In Fur and Loathing, investigative reporter Nicky Woolf takes on the unsolved case, working closely with Furries to find answers. It’s a journey that will bring him face-to-face with the challenges this vibrant, often misunderstood subculture faces – including the far-right extremists looking to wreck the community from within.

Whale Hunting Newsletter — How did a mother from Leeds end up coordinating a £100 million cash mule operation? And whose money is it, really?

Whale Hunting — It's not often that China's biggest bank finds itself victim of a cyberattack so ferocious that it has to abandon its corporate email in favour of Gmail.

New York Daily News — Urooj Rahman, who pleaded guilty to lighting a gasoline-filled bottle of Bud Light and throwing it at a police car, had said she regretted her actions, but her remorse was not enough to avoid jail time and $30,137 in restitution to the NYPD for the damage.

Washington Square News — Once a journalism student at NYU, Maria Bartiromo has recently turned to amplifying baseless right-wing claims about the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — all while serving as a voting member of NYU’s Board of Trustees.

Washington Square News — This story is the second of a two-part series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City. Read the first story here.

Washington Square News — Accounts and pages associated with the Ad Observatory project at Tandon were disabled in a move researchers called ‘disgraceful.’

New York Daily News — A teenager suspected of gunning down an 18-year-old Queens high school senior has been charged with weapons possession, cops said Friday.

Washington Square News — Workers excluded from government financial assistance during the pandemic completed their 21st day of an indefinite hunger strike on April 5. The group of strikers, which includes undocumented and recently incarcerated workers, are considered ineligible for unemployment benefits by New York state.

Washington Square News — Members of the NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee gathered at Gould Plaza yesterday to mark the start of their vote on a strike authorization.

Washington Square News — Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee will start voting tomorrow on whether to authorize a strike after nine months of bargaining with NYU have failed to produce a new contract for the over 2,000 graduate student workers represented by the union. The strike authorization vote was anno

New York Daily News — A Manhattan man says a stranger slashed him in the face on a subway train after asking him if he was "good." Fernanda Atkins told the Daily News he was sitting on an uptown No. 2 train ...

Newslaundry — The story of three men united by their fever-pitch resentment towards Rhea Chakraborty, and their anger and grief at the death of a Bollywood star. A picture posted on a popular Facebook group shows actor Rhea Chakraborty next to a coronavirus illustration. "Which virus is more dangerous?" shouts the text on the image. By Nidhi Suresh. Arnav Binaykia, Anna Priyadarshini and Monica Dhanraj contributed research to this article.

Newslaundry — A podcast that gives you a burst of the day's news so you can shed ignorance, be aware and conquer the world, one episode at a time. Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest on coronavirus from India and across the world, and other news stories. Produced by Jude Weston, edited by Harshula Sharma, script by Arnav Binaykia.

Apple Podcasts — It's early December 2014, and at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, an unusual gathering is taking place. It's the final night of Midwest Furfest, the world's largest convention for a subculture known as Furries. The party is in full swing when, just after midnight, attendees suddenly fi...