Tech Stocks Are Out. Small Stocks Are In. Can That Last?
Something appears to have shifted in the stock market. For the moment, at least. For the first half of this year, technology stocks — especially those linked to the expected…
A City of Light and Shadows Is Redrawn for the Olympics
There is a glorious folly to the Paris Olympics, the first in the city since 1924, as if France in its perennial revolutionary ardor took a century to ponder something…
Late Night Breaks Down ‘Kamala Is Brat’
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…
CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and…
Picture Books That See Shadows in a New Light
Shadows are almost always presented with negative connotations: When people are shady they can’t be trusted; when a place is shady danger is lurking there; to throw shade is to…
What Caused Such a Widespread Tech Meltdown?
An outage has hit computers around the world, affecting airlines, hospitals, retailers and other businesses. Adding to the confusion is that there have been two issues involving Microsoft systems in…
What Presidential Election? So Far, the Stock Market Doesn’t Care.
With the Republican Convention behind us, the Trump-Vance ticket is the favorite in polls and in markets where you can predict the winner of the presidential race. The stock market…
Slowing Down Like Scarlett
Take a cue from a movie star: Simplify your life this weekend.
Gaza war: US says floating aid pier to shut down soon
16 hours ago By Paul Adams, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Reuters The US says the floating pier designed to increase the amount of aid getting into the Gaza Strip will “soon cease operations”,…
I.R.S. Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion
The beefed-up enforcement is part of the agency’s modernization initiative aimed at improving customer service and catching wealthy tax evaders.