Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI
For months, some of the biggest players in the U.S. media industry have been in confidential talks with OpenAI on a tricky issue: the price and terms of licensing their…
Opinion | Trump Should Not Be Disqualified by an Ambiguous Clause
Challenges to disqualify Donald Trump from the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment are popping up all over the country. On Thursday, the secretary of state…
After Rise in Murders During the Pandemic, a Sharp Decline in 2023
Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of…
A Pilgrimage to Verdi-land
I was 15 when I went to my first Verdi opera, “Il Trovatore,” at the Met, the old Met, in 1964. I could barely figure out what was going on…
Opinion | What if ‘Food Noise’ Is Just … Hunger?
Before 2022, there was barely a whisper about it. Now the concept of “food noise” is ubiquitous on social media; a quick TikTok search, for instance, finds that videos related…
Russia Pounds Ukrainian Cities in One of the Largest Assaults in Months
Russia launched a large missile attack against several Ukrainian cities on Friday morning, killing several people, injuring many others and damaging infrastructure as part of a new wintertime air campaign…
Pilot Pulled the Wrong Levers in Nepal Crash That Killed 72, Investigators Find
A plane crash that killed dozens of people in Nepal in January was caused by a pilot who pulled the incorrect levers while trying to land, the country’s investigators said…
In a British Town, a New Way of Caring for Older People Is Bringing Hope
For 12 years after her husband died, Norma Fitzgerald tried to maintain her independence, living alone in an apartment on the outskirts of Hull, in northern England, despite her mobility…
Hong Kong Stocks Plunge to Losses for 4th Straight Year
This summer, when Hong Kong’s stock market rout seemed to have no end in sight, the city’s financial chief, Paul Chan, jumped into action, creating a task force to inject…
How Rikers Island Became New York’s Largest Mental Institution
One night in fall 2015, an 18-year-old woman was standing on a subway platform in the Bronx when a homeless man named James Dolo came up from behind and used…