World
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Rosmarie Trapp of the ‘Sound of Music’ Family Dies at 93
Rosmarie Trapp, a member of the singing family made famous by the stage musical and film “The Sound of Music” and the last surviving daughter of ...
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Your Thursday Briefing: Turkey’s NATO Block
Good morning. We’re covering Turkey’s move to stall NATO’s expansion, North Korea’s effort to follow China’s pandemic restrictions and China’s ...
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Urvashi Vaid, Pioneering L.G.B.T.Q. Activist, Is Dead at 63
Urvashi Vaid, a lawyer and activist who was a leading figure in the fight for L.G.B.T.Q. equality for more than four decades, died on Saturday in ...
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The Right Weaponizes America Against Itself
In the broadest sense, what goes by the name “replacement theory” — the idea that American elites are conspiring to replace so-called real ...
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‘Racism’ Has Too Many Definitions. We Need Another Term.
Since Saturday, the mass shooting in Buffalo has rarely left my mind. Ten innocent people killed at a supermarket in a predominantly Black ...
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Ukrainian Holdouts in Mariupol Surrender to an Uncertain Fate
KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of die-hard Ukrainian soldiers who had made a last stand against Russian forces from a Mariupol steel mill faced an ...
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Fearing ‘Extinction-Level Event,’ N.Y. Democrats Turn Against Each Other
Two weeks ago, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney warned fellow Democrats in a private meeting that a ruling by New York’s highest court to ...
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Russian Hacking Cartel Attacks Costa Rican Government Agencies
WASHINGTON — A Russian hacking cartel carried out an extraordinary cyberattack against the government of Costa Rica, crippling tax collection and ...
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Crashing Crypto: Is This Time Different?
Last week TerraUSD, a stablecoin — a system that was supposed to perform a lot like a conventional bank account but was backed only by a ...
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U.S. to Offer Minor Sanctions Relief to Entice Venezuela to Talks
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Tuesday it would slightly loosen the crippling economic sanctions against Venezuela’s government to ...