Opinion | How Protesters Can Actually Help Palestinians
Student protesters: I admire your empathy for Gazans, your concern for the world, your moral ambition to make a difference. But I worry about how peaceful protests have tipped into…
Armed Student Is Killed Near Wisconsin Middle School, Officials Say
The police killed an armed student after an active shooter had been reported near a middle school in Mount Horeb, Wis., on Wednesday, the authorities said. No other students or…
Olga Fikotova Connolly, Olympian in a Cold War Romance, Dies at 91
Olga Fikotova Connolly, who won a gold medal in track and field for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, watched Harold Connolly of the United States win one the next…
U.K. Conservatives Hold Their Breath: How Bad Will Local Elections Be?
When voters in England and Wales go to the polls on Thursday to elect mayors and local council members, the outcome will inevitably be seen as a barometer for Britain’s…
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on…
U.S. and Israel Struggle With Clashing Visions on Ending Gaza War
Nearing the end of a whirlwind Middle East trip this week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken finished meetings with the Israeli president and relatives of American hostages held by…
A Mysterious Flier, a Tiny Charity and a Disinformation Campaign at the Border
The two men rang the bell at the Resource Center Matamoros, a migrant aid group in the Mexican border city, and, speaking in broken Spanish, said they were looking for…
Menendez Lawyers Cite ‘Traumatic’ History to Explain His Cash Stockpile
When Senator Robert Menendez was charged last year with participating in a complex bribery scheme, news headlines highlighted a peculiar detail: Investigators had discovered more than $480,000 in cash and…
United Methodist Church will allow LGBTQ clergy, after 40-year ban
“With the approvals and acceptance of the things today…we’re beginning to see the unwinding, unravelling, dismantling of the heterosexism, the homophobia, the hurt and the harm of the United Methodist…
Blinken says ‘time is now’ for Israel-Hamas deal in Gaza
“On Rafah itself – our position is clear, it has not changed, it won’t change. We cannot, will not support a major military operation in Rafah absent an effective plan…