Tiny Sprouts Spotted at the Stump of the Fallen Sycamore Gap Tree
On a fine, bright morning last Friday, just like so many other fine, bright mornings, Gary Pickles took a walk. Mr. Pickles, a ranger who works at Northumberland National Park…
Stitch by Stitch, Pacita Abad Crossed Continents and Cultures
About a year before she died of cancer, in 2004, at the age of 58, the artist Pacita Abad and a team painted a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Singapore…
N.F.L. Sunday Ticket Verdict Is Thrown Out by Judge
The $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for colluding to raise prices for its Sunday Ticket television package was overturned late Thursday by a federal judge, who disqualified…
U.S. Recognizes Maduro’s Rival as Winner of Venezuelan Election
The United States on Thursday night recognized Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González, as the winner of the country’s disputed election. The announcement, by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken,…
Trump Elevates False, Fringe Attacks on Harris to Center of His Campaign
When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity on Wednesday, he lifted a longstanding and false line of attack from the fringes of political discourse…
Trump Remarks on Harris’s Multiracial Identity Overlook a Growing Trend
When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity in Chicago on Wednesday, he neglected a reality: that the country’s demographics have changed in recent decades,…
Harris Begins Final Phase of Accelerated V.P. Search
The law firm hired by the Harris campaign to investigate potential vice-presidential candidates has completed its work, leaving the final decision — the most important yet of the still-new campaign…
Two years, secret talks, high stakes: The long road to prisoners deal
Getty Images When a notorious Russian assassin and an American newspaper correspondent boarded separate planes in Turkey on Thursday, it marked the culmination of a secretive, dramatic prisoner swap deal…
Americans freed in Russia prisoner swap land in US
Three Americans who were freed in a prisoner swap deal with Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, have arrived back on US soil. Mr Gershkovich, 32, was one…
Joe Biden burnishes his legacy with historic prisoner swap
Getty Images Last month, President Joe Biden said that he had “no higher priority” than gaining the release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan from Russian prison. On Thursday, after…