SPAC Tied to Trump Media Rushes to Complete Deal
Nearly 18 months ago, an obscure investment banker unveiled a blockbuster deal: His so-called blank-check company would bankroll a social media outfit that former President Donald J. Trump planned to…
The Children’s Rights Advocate Accused of Russian War Crimes
MOSCOW — As children gathered at a holiday camp outside Moscow, they were greeted by a female performer in a kokoshnik, a traditional tiara, who extended the customary Russian greeting…
Deadly Attack Hits Ukrainian Town After Zelensky Denounces Russia’s ‘Absurd’ Security Council Presidency
Russian forces launched a deadly attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, hours after Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s assumption of the United Nations Security Council presidency…
Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark and the W.N.B.A.’s Talent Conundrum
DALLAS — Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will likely be playing against each other for a very long time. The breakout stars who led the Iowa and Louisiana State programs…
Chicagoans Are Picking a Mayor. Here’s What Matters From 4 Key Wards.
CHICAGO — Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided into distinctive pockets defined by their own architecture, restaurants, languages, ballparks and beaches. But this is…
No More Blank Checks: Saudi Arabia Clamps Down on Regional Aid
For much of the past decade, Saudi Arabia sent billions of dollars in aid to Egypt, bolstering a poorer regional ally seen as too strategically important to neglect. But recently,…
A Chicago Mayoral Hopeful Who Took on Hard-to-Fix Schools Faces a Political Shift
CHICAGO — Paul Vallas took control of Chicago Public Schools when the district was among the country’s most troubled. He went to Philadelphia to head up a teetering education system…
A popular underground pipe fix is making people sick: Here’s what we learned from our investigation.
It’s relatively cheap. It’s more convenient than traditional pipe rehabilitation projects. And it’s already been used to repair hundreds of millions of miles of underground infrastructure in the United States…
Parisians to vote on electric rental scooters ban
The wheels may be about to come off the French capital’s experiment with for-hire electric scooters, the so-called “free floating” flotilla of vehicles that can be picked up and dropped…
Cheerful Pope heads home from hospital
Pope Francis left the hospital Saturday morning where he has been for several days recovering from bronchitis (April 1) (AP/ Gianfranco Starra, Luigi Navarro, Francesco Stati)