Some things are more important than history
He didn't care that it was a no-hitter. He just wanted the Yankees to win. More than five hours after we arrived at Yankee Stadium, my 9-year-old son Wes had waited in line for an hour in a rainstorm,...
View ArticlePutin arrives in North Korea as war in Ukraine redefines ties with Kim
Among other things, the conflict has given Pyongyang a rare opportunity to evaluate the performance of its missiles in combat and potentially refine their design. North Korea would also welcome...
View ArticleFDA panel evaluates MDMA therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder
What is the framework for approval? In 2017, the FDA granted “breakthrough” status to MDMA-assisted therapy. Status, the recognition of a drug's therapeutic promise, aims to shorten regulatory times....
View ArticleElon Musk got 72% in Tesla shareholder vote on pay
With the pay package, Musk would own 20.5% of Tesla, up from about 13%. He has said he would like a 25% stake, stressing in January that it would be “quite influential, but not so much that it can't...
View ArticleWilliam H. Donaldson, the Lion of Wall Street who led the SEC, dies at 93
William H. Donaldson, who made an early fortune as co-founder of the innovative securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later pushed for tougher financial regulation as chairman of the...
View ArticleIn North Macedonia, disputes over history extend to statues
The center of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, a Balkan country born just 33 years ago as an independent state, is flooded with history. A statue of Alexander the Great looms over the central...
View ArticleCrisis in the Middle East: The United States imposes sanctions on the Israeli...
The State Department announced Friday that it will impose sanctions on a right-wing Israeli group that tried to prevent aid from reaching people in the Gaza Strip by blocking trucks traveling from...
View ArticleUAW reaches agreement on pay and safety at electric vehicle battery plant
GM and Ultium released statements saying they were pleased with the deal. The union said it wants to use the Ultium Cells contract as a model to negotiate local deals at other battery plants that GM...
View ArticleDuring Eid al-Adha, Gazans find little to celebrate
Now, due to the lack of electricity and higher costs in the markets, Abdul Aziz has to buy food every day, depending on what is available and what he can afford. But the party isn't the only thing...
View ArticleJohn Jaso gave up baseball to enjoy life on a boat
He also took several trips to Europe, discovering a passion for exploring his father's ancestral land in the Basque Country in northern Spain. And he drove a camper van around Australia and Indonesia....
View ArticleThe transplanted pig kidney is removed from the patient
In April, Ms. Pisano became the second person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. Hers was a particularly complicated case: she suffers from heart and kidney failure and...
View ArticleAs Ukraine expands its military draft, some men are in hiding
Tymofii Brik, a sociologist at the Kyiv School of Economics, said polls “suggest that the willingness to defend the nation among Ukrainians has remained constant” throughout the war, with about a...
View ArticleThe young people have spoken: wallets are not cool. Go digital.
In a survey that asked just over 2,500 Americans about digital payments, about 80% of Gen Z respondents said they use mobile wallets, and among them, half were eager to use their phone much more than...
View ArticleGoogle CEO testifies in Ozy Media founder's fraud trial
At the center of the federal criminal trial is an incident in 2021 in which Mr. Watson's deputy deceived Goldman Sachs employees on a fundraising call by posing as a YouTube executive. The revelation...
View ArticleWhen the only way out of the war in Gaza is to buy your way out
In February, when Dr Ghayyda traveled to the Egyptian capital to register his parents, sister and nephew, he took his 23-year-old son with him to avoid carrying more than $10,000. By then he had...
View ArticleSpicy noodles and pickled fish: Chinese restaurants move to Hong Kong
In the Shek Tong Tsui area, where Return Home Hunan opened in May, many of the brightly colored restaurants – once mainstays of the neighborhood – had recently closed their doors. A restaurant that...
View ArticleNew professional women's hockey league will launch in 6 cities
For the first season, each team will play 24 regular season games starting in January 2024. The league says subsequent seasons will begin in November and include 32 games. An expansion is also...
View ArticleFauci says the idea that he hid a lab leak is 'absurd'
Monday is the first opportunity for lawmakers to ask him about his agency's record-keeping practices. For Republicans on the committee, the hearing is also the culmination, so far, of a long campaign...
View ArticleGoogle restores AI search functionality after errors and flaws
Liz Reid, Google's recently promoted head of search, wrote in a blog post Thursday that the company has pared back its AI overviews in certain ways, implementing “additional opt-in refinements” to...
View ArticleA strange rock in a box is linked to a shooting star that fell 54 years ago
She and her team hunted down image negatives containing fireballs stored at the German Aerospace Center in Augsburg. After digitizing the images, the researchers estimated various parameters related...
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