Major Covid Holdouts in Asia Drop Border Restrictions
HONG KONG — After two and a half years of tight pandemic controls, some of Asia’s last holdouts are finally opening their borders, as they move to bolster their economies…
Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Talks between the National Football League and Apple over a package of Sunday football games have dragged as the league and the tech giant have wrangled over pricing, but another…
Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel
Cromwell is also, as Mantel sees him, a closet Protestant, monitoring Luther’s battles with Rome and exchanging secret letters with Tyndale, the English translator of the Bible, about the “brutal…
A Canny Henchman, Targeting the Queen (Published 2012)
Two years ago something astonishingly fair happened in the world of prestigious prizes: the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for 2009 both went…
Opinion | ¡Basta de Apagones! The Rot in Puerto Rico Runs Deeper Than Its Disastrous Power Company.
But there is reason for hope. While Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice, which is responsible for the enforcement of the local law, allows impunity to go unchecked, Washington has begun…
Opinion | Putin Is Not Liberating My Family. He Is Subjugating Them.
Starting this weekend, people in four occupied regions of Ukraine will “vote” on whether to join Russia. For many people, including my aunt and uncle, in Donetsk, what that really…
As Roger Federer Retires, Two Great Rivalries Come to an End
Baseball has the Yankees and Red Sox. Soccer has F.C. Barcelona and Real Madrid. College football has Michigan and Ohio State. Over the past two decades, men’s tennis has had…
‘I’m Done Saying I’m Sorry,’ Alex Jones Tells Sandy Hook Families in Court
WATERBURY, Conn. — Alex Jones’s initial day of testimony in a trial for damages after years of lying about the Sandy Hook shootings ended in chaos. Confronted on Thursday with…
Jury Rules Against Project Veritas in Lawsuit
WASHINGTON — A jury in a federal civil case on Thursday found that Project Veritas, a conservative group known for its deceptive tactics, had violated wiretapping laws and fraudulently misrepresented…
Hurricane Fiona: ‘The important thing is we’re alive’
Now a Category 4 storm, Hurricane Fiona has wrecked parts of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.